Urgent action is needed to tackle climate change and prepare for future extreme weather, the environment secretary is warning. Mr Gove says: “It is clear that the planet and its weather patterns are changing before our eyes. We know, more than ever before, the urgency of acting. These projections will give us an invaluable tool to assess the nature and scale of the challenge we face and take decisions accordingly.” To mark the tenth anniversary of the Climate Change Act, Caroline Luca s, the Green Party MP, will chair an event in parliament. She is expected to brand the act as “way past its sell-by date”. She will call for the urgent creation of a select committee on climate change to chart the course of crises and add: “If by 2028 we aren’t living in a radically different world, we will have failed to secure our own futures.”
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British summers could become more than five degrees hotter on average over the next 50 years, a major report will warn today. The UK Climate Projections 2018 report will say that the heatwave conditions experienced across Britain this year could become the norm. By 2070 average summer temperatures could have climbed by five degrees, leaving Britain at increased risk of water shortages and grassland fires, while winters will also rise by around four degrees. At a speech launching the report at London’s Science Museum today, Michael Gove, the Environment Secretary, will call for urgent action to tackle the warming climate, protect coastal areas from sea level rise, and make Britain’s transport and power infrastructure more resilient. “It is clear that the planet and its weather patterns are changing before our eyes. We know, more than ever before, the urgency of acting,” Mr Gove is expected to say.
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Rainforest destruction in Brazil reached its highest level for a decade last year, raising fears of further increases under a far-right populist president who has dismissed the effects of deforestation and claimed that Amazon tribes would prefer “blonde girlfriends and the internet” to their traditional way of life.
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