Climate delayers are to blame for Britain's lack of urgency in creating a green plan | Carys Roberts

People are urging the government to take further and faster action but those who think it's too costly must first be defeatedIt's easy to feel despair reading the stark warnings in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the window in which warming can be limited to 1.5C is rapidly closing. The forest fires and flooding on our TV screens, and closer to home, are a wake-up call to the realities of a rapidly warming climate.The IPCC, the UN body responsible for climate science, described the report as a "code red for humanity", but 30 years of warnings have not brought about action on a meaningful scale. Continue reading...