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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Matthew Taylor, Sandra Laville, Damian Carrington and Pippa Neill

From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now

A burned field of wheat in Eton Wick, Windsor, in July.
A burned field of wheat in Eton Wick, Windsor, in July. Experts say the UK should regenerative agriculture approaches to increase food resilience. Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock

From record-smashing temperatures, wildfires, hosepipe bans and thousands of premature deaths, the climate crisis has left its mark across the summer of 2026.

Tackling the root cause – the burning of fossil fuels – and ending the crisis will take years. So will fixing the UK government’s calamitous failure to protect lives and livelihoods against the long-predicted affects of global heating.

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