Petition launched for UK Climate Change Impacts Fund

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Bob Ward seeks 100,000 signatures to support call for the creation of a dedicated fund to help the UK cope with escalating climate change threats

Environmentalists across the UK are today being asked to support a new e-petition designed to highlight the need for a dedicated Climate Change Impacts Fund to help the country cope with escalating climate...

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