UK unprepared for climate challenges now and for the future, Climate Change Committee warns

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The CCC said the UK had not yet adapted to ’the changes in weather and climate that we are living with today, let alone those that are expected over coming decades’

The UK needs to “strengthen its adaptation objectives” for global temperatures to exceed 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050, and is currently underprepared for such an eventuality, the independent Climate Change Committee has warned.

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