Flint: Climate change is a threat to our national security

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Caroline Flint speech to the CBI Energy Conference - in full

Nick, thank you for that introduction. All of us, by now, are very well acquainted with the fact that in the next decade a quarter of our power supply will be shut down or switched off for good...

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