Christiana Figueres (front row third right), the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) joins a group of hunger striking mothers, on the last day of their hunger strike over food poverty and climate change, at Carriage Gate outside Parliament in London
THE government has presided over a “lost decade” and failed to adequately plan and adapt to climate change, its advisers have said.
A new report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which advises the government on climate policy, concludes that the lack of planning and failure to implement adaptation policies where they exist could expose Britain to a host of climate-related threats.
CCC adaptation committee chairwoman Baroness Brown said: “The last decade has been a lost decade in terms of preparing for and adapting to the risks, the risks we already have and those that we know are coming.
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