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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Miliband must match climate rhetoric with action amid broken cross-party consensus

Screengrab showing Ed Miliband standing at the dispatch box giving a statement
In his first annual climate statement to parliament, Miliband warned against political backsliding and fossil fuel influence. Photograph: PRU/AFP/Getty Images

Ed Miliband made a passionate and patriotic case for climate action in his first annual statement to parliament on the devastating impacts of global heating.

After laying out the “uncomfortable, sobering facts” of the increasingly unstable climate we now face, he highlighted how the UK has led global efforts to bring emissions down including passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which was copied around the world, and being the first country to set legally binding nature targets.

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