Labour candidates set out detailed plans for tackling climate crisis

Lisa Nandy, Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey answer 17 questions put by the Guardian

• Read the candidates' answers in full

Transforming the energy efficiency of every home, mass rewilding of the countryside, huge investment in cycling, walking and buses, and a "frequent flyer" tax are among a raft of green policies being put forward by the politicians vying to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party.

In answers to 17 questions put by the Guardian before the coronavirus outbreak, all three remaining candidates - Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Keir Starmer - set out detailed plans on how they would go about tackling the dual environmental crises of climate breakdown and mass extinction, and shed light on how the party under their leadership would tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the UK, and the world.