UK Appoints 'Climate Security' Envoy, a World First
- 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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Announced by Andy Burnham in Antalya, the appointment of Madeleine Alessandri, former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, to integrate climate risks into British national security policy
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced at COP31 the appointment of Madeleine Alessandri to link climate risks to national security
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welingelichtekringen.nlANTALYA (ANP) - The United Kingdom will have a special envoy for climate security for the first time. Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced this at the COP31 climate summit in Antalya. "Climate is a matter of national security," he explained. Burnham, who took office last summer, looked during s...
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