“Last October, I and other journalists got quite excited because we thought that we were going to be attending a great event at the Natural History Museum,” the Guardian’s environment editor Fiona Harvey tells Nosheen Iqbal.
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“We had been told that there was a major report being launched at this event.
“We had been told that there was a major report being launched at this event. And this report was going to come not just from where you’d expect – from the government’s environment department – but also from the joint intelligence committee, and they are the UK’s spy chiefs, MI5, MI6, the intelligence agencies. And they were taking an interest in the climate and biodiversity and the threats that they pose to the UK’s national security.”
But Fiona and other journalists were then uninvited to the event.
And the report? “It transpired that this report, this key report, was not coming out after all. We realised there was something bigger afoot.”
Fiona tells Nosheen what she has found out about the contents of the report. Nosheen also speaks to Lt Gen Richard Nugee about the risks the climate crisis poses to UK security.
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