Britain can learn from Bangladesh on climate crisis


It might feel surprising – or perhaps foreboding – that a rich country like the UK is so unready for the challenge. — Bloomberg

FOR anyone who has sweated through record-high temperatures or waded through floodwater, it will come as no surprise that Britain is “strikingly unprepared” for the effects of climate change.

That’s the conclusion of a report published Wednesday by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK’s independent advisory body on climate policy to the government.

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