Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis

Pedro Sanchez says country's deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate action

Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has announced a 10-point plan to prepare the country for the climate emergency, warning: If we don't want to bequeath our children a Spain that's grey from fire and flames, or a Spain that's brown from floods, then we need a Spain that's greener."

Sanchez said August's heatwave-fuelled wildfires - which killed four people, burned through an area six times the size of Ibiza and required the biggest human and technical deployment" ever seen in Spain - showed that immediate action must be taken to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.