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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Pippa Neill

MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate crisis

Chris Packham speaks to at a podium labelled 'National Emergency Briefing'.
The TV environmentalist Chris Packham holding a national emergency briefing in Westminster Hall last November. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

MPs are calling on the UK government to host a televised national climate emergency briefing in response to what has been described as the most “insidious threat to our society”.

In November, in the “first-of-its-kind, national emergency briefing”, nine experts gave stark assessments in Westminster Hall of the scale of the changes needed to adapt the country to the rapidly changing climate and ecological landscape.

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