MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate emergency

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UK MPs have urged the government to hold a televised emergency briefing on the climate emergency amid ongoing heatwaves. The call follows a prior national emergency briefing where experts highlighted security, economic, and health risks related to climate change.

As UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and health MPs are calling on the UK government to host a televised national climate emergency briefing in response to what has been described as the most “insidious threat to our society”. In November, in the “first-of-its-kind, national emergency briefing”, nine experts gave stark assessments in Westminster Hall of the scale of the changes needed to adapt the country to the rapidly changing climate and ecological landscape. Continue reading...