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UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017

This animation accompanies the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 Evidence Report. This report has been prepared for the UK Government by the Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Change.

Credit: UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017, originally published in the Committee on Climate Change UK (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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