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MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate emergency
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/10/mps-government-televised-emergency-briefing-climate-emergencyAs UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and health
Pippa Neill
Fri 10 Jul 2026 08.00 EDT
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.
The team behind the event has since crowdfunded to produce the People’s Emergency Briefing, a 50-minute film outlining the urgent threats that climate and nature breakdown pose to food security, the economy and public health.
The call for a televised briefing comes as parts of the UK experience their third heatwave of the summer. In June, most of Europe sweltered in its worst ever heatwave that scientists said would have been impossible without the human-induced climate crisis. In summer 2022, more than 60,000 people died due to heat in Europe.
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Pippa Neill
Fri 10 Jul 2026 08.00 EDT
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.
The team behind the event has since crowdfunded to produce the People’s Emergency Briefing, a 50-minute film outlining the urgent threats that climate and nature breakdown pose to food security, the economy and public health.
The call for a televised briefing comes as parts of the UK experience their third heatwave of the summer. In June, most of Europe sweltered in its worst ever heatwave that scientists said would have been impossible without the human-induced climate crisis. In summer 2022, more than 60,000 people died due to heat in Europe.
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