Rory Stewart: 'We are facing a climate cataclysm'

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Rory Stewart: 'We are facing a climate cataclysm'

International Development Secretary responds to calls for UK to overhaul aid spending strategy with pledge to deliver 'wholesale change'

"We are facing a climate cataclysm." Not the words of Extinction Rebellion or the head of Greenpeace, but the line today from newly appointed International Development Secretary Rory Stewart in response...

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