Asad Rehman on climate justice: 'Now we are seeing these arguments cut through'

Once a 'reluctant environmentalist', Rehman is key figure in movement that links climate crisis with racial, economic and social justiceAsad Rehman, who emerged as a key figure among the coalition of activists that took to the streets during last month's climate summit in Glasgow, admits to being "somewhat of a reluctant environmentalist".Tucking into his lunch in a cafe in east London, Rehman - now director of the charity War on Want - says that having cut his teeth as a young, working class man fighting the National Front in his home town of Burnley during the 1970s and 1980s, he initially saw the environment movement as remote and largely irrelevant to the causes he was championing. Continue reading...