Alarm bells: Government resists calls for climate emergency ahead of latest protests
Activists to stage a protest in Parliament Square as Labour prepares to table motion declaring a 'climate emergency' and hopes grow for net zero target
The government is today expected to resist fresh calls for it to declare a 'climate emergency', after Michael Gove indicated that more agreement was needed across government before Defra could back a formal...
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