Climate risks fail to make corporate agenda
- Environment Secretary urges businesses to carry out detailed climate risk assessments
- Three quarters of businesses concerned about the potential impact of climate change
- Less than a quarter are addressing the risks and opportunities that climate change poses
Environment secretary Caroline Spelman last night called on UK plc to urgently prepare for the risks associated with climate change to avoid problems and improve resiliance but also to capitalise on the potential opportunities that changes to weather patterns will bring.
Speaking at an event at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, Spelman said that businesses needed to prepare for the opportunities and challenges that will arise from a warmer climate.
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