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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ed Miliband

The global battle against the climate crisis needs China. I’m visiting Beijing, and that’s what I’ll tell them

A man in a T-shirt, waist deep in water, carries on his shoulders a boy wearing crocs in a flooded neighbourhood street in Beijing
Typhoon Doksuri caused heavy damage in Beijing, China, 1 August 2023. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

The climate crisis is an existential threat to our way of life in Britain. Extreme weather is already changing the lives of people and communities across the country, from thousands of acres of farmland being submerged due to storms such as Bert and Darragh to record numbers of heat-related deaths in recent summers.

The only way to respond to this challenge is with decisive action at home and abroad. Domestically, this government’s clean-energy superpower mission is about investing in homegrown clean energy so we can free the UK from dependence on fossil fuel markets while seizing the immense opportunities for jobs and growth.

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