'Dangerous, missed opportunity': UK's official adaptation plan slammed by climate experts

Cecilia Keating
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'Dangerous, missed opportunity': UK's official adaptation plan slammed by climate experts

Green leaders express disappointment at government's failure to use publication of latest five-year plan to ramp up nationwide climate adaptation efforts

The government's preparations for the impacts of climate change on UK infrastructure have been widely condemned as dangerously underpowered in the wake of the publication of the UK's latest five-year adaptation...

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