MPs urge government to boost resilience to extreme weather events

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Public Accounts Committee warns government efforts to enhance climate resilience lack leadership and urgency

MPs have again raised the alarm over the government's response to increasingly extreme weather, warning the UK's efforts to enhance climate resilience lack leadership, oversight, and urgency. The Public...

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