Experts call for serious, long term climate action to prevent UK becoming 'ungovernable'

Stuart Stone
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Mike Berners-Lee - Credit: National Emergency Briefing
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Mike Berners-Lee - Credit: National Emergency Briefing

National Emergency Briefing in Westminster calls on policymakers to rise above 'comfortable short-term options' and adopt a 'World War Two level' of leadership in response to the climate crisis

The UK risks becoming an "ungovernable state" characterised by a breakdown of infrastructure and societal norms unless successive governments deliver serious and sustained action to tackle the climate...

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