Fiona Harvey

I think people are very aware of the climate crisis to an extent that our politicians past and present do not understand.

From the discourse that our politicians have, you would have thought that it was a minority interest to care about the climate crisis.

That's not true.

The Reform Party keeps trying to tell us that people don't want net zero.

Actually, two thirds of people in this country want us to meet our net zero targets.

And that's a pretty big majority, you know, in anybody's book.

It's a problem that our politicians have and that our media have.

has rather than a problem that ordinary people in this country have people are voting with their feet as well you know people are putting their own solar panels on people are buying electric cars so the public in the uk is way ahead of most of our politicians on this please please catch up

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.

This is Fiona Harvey.

She's Environment Editor at The Guardian.

And we'd be talking about biodiversity at the Natural History Museum and looking at the risks and the challenges.

crises that we're facing the joint crises of climate and biodiversity and looking ahead to what was going to happen at the COP the UN climate summit just a few weeks later.

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 posed to the UK's national security.

At first we thought perhaps it was the palace who can be a bit sensitive about such things.

But when it transpired that this report, this key report, was not coming out after all, we realised there was something bigger afoot.

I went and tried to talk to as many contacts as I could to find out about the report, what was in it, who'd written it, what the advice was to ministers and how it was going to be acted upon.