Ed Miliband calls for law to make CO2 emissions target legally binding

Ex-Labour leader assembles group of MPs and NGOs to demand UK legislation on net zero emissions agreed at Paris climate talks

Ed Miliband has assembled a group of cross-party MPs and campaigners to demand parliament enacts a law to to make the carbon emissions target agreed at the Paris climate talks legally binding.

The former Labour leader - alongside Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, Green MP Caroline Lucas and two Conservative MPs - has called for legislation that would significantly extend the present UK target of cutting emissions by 80% by 2050.