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Foresight in the news
28th January 2008: How to coexist with Floods
'How to coexist with floods' describes China's program to analyse and manage flood risks in the Taihu basin over the next 50 years. The program, launched jointly by China and UK is based on the Foresight report 'Future Flooding', published in April 2004. The article appeared in China's only national-level science and technology newspaper, Science and Technology Daily, on the 28th of January 2008. A translated version appears here and the original article can be viewed here.
20th January 2008: Together we can beat obesity
Britain is in the grip of an epidemic. In the UK two-thirds of adults and a third of children are already overweight or obese, and without action this could rise to almost nine in 10 adults and two-thirds of children by 2050. Read the full story in The Times
23rd January 2008: UK united on obesity threat
The government's proposals on tackling obesity have been greeted with widespread approval from public health organisations. Read the full story on Politics.co.uk
24th January 2008: Obese people will be paid to lose weight.
Overweight people are to be paid to shed the pounds under a £372m incentive scheme aimed at making Britain the first country in the world to reverse rising obesity levels. Read the full story here in The Independent.