Breaking the silence on adaptation

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The Wildlife Trusts' Kathryn Brown and Frontier Economics' Matthew Bell ask why a topic that should be part of upcoming manifestos is being relegated to the periphery

The visible effects of climate change are accelerating. In the past 12 months, the world has exceeded the 1.5C warming threshold - the value central to the Paris Agreement - for an entire year for the...

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