Tackle climate change or face resource wars, Lord Ashdown warns

Refugee crisis is a 'rehearsal' for a vast humanitarian disaster that will soon unfold if we fail to act on global warming, former Lib Dem leader tells Climate News Network

The former leader of one of the UK's main political parties says the world will undergo more resource wars and huge movements of desperate people unless it tackles climate change effectively.

Lord Ashdown, who was leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats for 11 years, describes the present flight of refugees from Syria and other conflict areas as a "rehearsal" for the vast humanitarian disaster he believes will soon unfold.