What are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough?

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Last week more than 400 scientists signed an open letter to political parties urging ambitious action on the environment to prevent making Britain and the world ‘more dangerous and insecure’. Now that the main parties’ manifestos have all been released, Ian Sample is joined by the global environment editor, Jon Watts, and the biodiversity reporter, Phoebe Weston, to find out what the manifestos have to say about nature and climate, and whether anyone is promising the level of action scientists are asking for. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:36.5	It's less than three weeks until the UK's general election.
0:43.7	We've already seen a milkshake missile,
0:46.1	gaffs, scandals, and fiery debates.
0:49.5	From your government, but what is it,
0:51.9	of rage taxes to the record level in 70 years? But what is it? Angela, what is it?
0:54.0	What is it?
0:55.0	What is yeah?
0:56.0	We have and we've hated putting taxes up.
0:58.0	But there's been one topic politicians have remained pretty quiet on,
1:02.0	despite it being, you know, an existential threat
1:06.2	to humanity.
1:08.6	We've just had the world's hottest May ever, which followed the hottest April, February, March. 12 months in a row have been
1:18.0	records and last year we saw the hottest summer the world's ever seen for 2,000 years.
1:24.1	We may be collectively feeling the heat, but we're burning more fossil fuels than ever.
1:29.6	The world's governments aren't doing nearly enough to tackle the climate crisis and it's not the
1:34.8	only environmental issue that needs urgent action.
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