Lucky number seven: There are big challenges - and opportunities - in the UK's seventh carbon budget

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AECOM's Helena Rivers explores the CCC's recommendations for the Seventh Carbon Budget and what they could mean for the UK

In recent years, the UK has seen heatwaves and flooding break records with increasing regularity, to the point that it barely registers each time it happens. It's hard to remember a time when this wasn't...

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