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

As UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and health

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.