Why is the UK so unprepared for extreme heat and what can be done?

Government's climate advisers have warned for years about the fast-rising risk but little action has been taken

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Absolutely not, despite years of warnings from its official climate advisers, the Climate Change Committee. We've been telling the government for over 10 years that we are nothing like well enough prepared in the UK for the really hot weather we are seeing now," said Lady Brown, the CCC's deputy chair.