UK Appoints 'Climate Security' Envoy, a World First
Dame Madeleine Alessandri will oversee climate threats as Britain says the crisis is a national security issue, with ministers pushing wider partnerships.
- On Thursday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham addressed the COP31 summit in Antalya, Turkey, pledging a "new era of British leadership" on climate action and declaring climate change a "national security issue."
- Burnham appointed Dame Madeleine Alessandri, former Joint Intelligence Committee chair, as the UK's first climate security envoy to integrate environmental threats into national security strategies.
- The pledge faces domestic scrutiny over potential electric vehicle sales target rollbacks by about a quarter and government approval of North Sea gas drilling at the Jackdaw field.
- Burnham will hold bilateral talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Amazon rainforest protection and clean energy, then travel to Dublin for Friday's European Political Community meeting.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned leaders that "fossil fuels must go the way of the dinosaurs," cautioning that current policies place the planet on a "path to mutually assured destruction.
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