Experts pile pressure on Boris Johnson over 'shocking' new coalmine

Bizarre' decision to go ahead with Cumbrian mine criticised as UK prepares to host climate summit

Pressure is growing on the government over its support for a new coalmine in Cumbria, as the UK prepares to host the most important UN climate summit since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015.

Developing country experts, scientists, green campaigners and government advisers are increasingly concerned about the seeming contradiction of ministers backing the new mine - the UK's first new deep coalmine in three decades, which will produce coking coal, mostly for export, until 2049 - while gathering support from world leaders for a fresh deal on the climate crisis.