UK Intelligence Climate Report Cancelled After Journalists Uninvited From Launch Event
Guardian environment editor reveals details of suppressed report on climate and biodiversity threats to UK national security that was to involve MI5 and MI6
En resumen
- Journalists were uninvited from a planned launch at the Natural History Museum last October of a major UK government report on climate and biodiversity threats to national security.
- The report was to be jointly produced by the environment department and the joint intelligence committee, involving MI5 and MI6.
- Guardian environment editor Fiona Harvey reports the event was cancelled and the report never published, prompting concerns about what it contained.
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Por qué importa
The UK government had planned to publish a major report linking climate change and biodiversity loss to national security threats, involving intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6. Journalists were invited then uninvited from the launch event, and the report was never published.
"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. "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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Further investigation into the suppressed report will continue
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Pressure will mount on UK government to release the report
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Preguntas abiertas
- What were the specific contents of the suppressed report?
- Why was the report cancelled?
- Who made the decision to uninvite journalists?
- What intelligence did MI5 and MI6 contribute to the report?
