Climate resilience: Lloyds calls for 'national security mindset' to help scale up adaptation investment

Michael Holder
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Lloyds Banking Group urges public and private sector to adopt 'national security mindset' in support of work to make UK's ageing infrastructure more resilient to climate change

Climate risks should be approached with a "national security mindset" in order to unlock sufficient investment in projects to prepare the UK's ageing infrastructure from the worsening threats posed by...

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