Labour List
Writing for Labour List, SCRI executive director Laurie Laybourn explains that the UK isn’t ready to survive global heating, but right-wing politicians are ready to exploit the fallout.
As the world heads beyond 1.5C of global heating and climate shocks escalate, there’s growing evidence that the opposite can also happen: that anti-climate forces will capitalise on the disarray.
This isn’t a challenge isolated to Spain or the US. Today, the UK government’s independent climate advisors – the Climate Change Committee – has published its latest assessment of the risks posed by climate change to the UK.