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Committee on Climate Change questions ministers’ claims of increased investment and urges more spending on defences

“Having accepted that climate change is happening, there’s a curious unwillingness to recognise that this is not something about our children’s future, it is something about our present.

“We’re going to have more frequent and more serious weather incidents than we’ve had before, and we’re beginning to see that, and that means we have to take a lot of measures that are not about flood defences but are about avoiding having to have even further flood defences.”

Record Floods Affect Millions in the Midwest

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