'Blind spot': How today's decisions could be setting smaller businesses on a path towards worsening climate risks

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New analysis finds 10% of business premises built between 2008 and 2018 will be exposed to high or medium level flood risk by the 2050s
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New analysis finds 10% of business premises built between 2008 and 2018 will be exposed to high or medium level flood risk by the 2050s

A new report finds that failure to implement climate resilience measures now can place businesses on irreversible trajectories towards disastrous physical climate impacts

Following warnings from the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) third risk assessment report earlier in the year that the UK is failing to adopt resilience measures capable of keeping pace with escalating...

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