Fiona Harvey

And I found out some very interesting things.

I got parts of the report read out to me and saw various bits of it.

It was really peculiar that it was not being put out at this time.

And we were told by various sources that the people who had suppressed this report were actually Number 10 Downing Street.

Well, this report was commissioned from the Joint Intelligence Committee.

They direct the work of MI5, MI6, the national security agencies that look after us.

They tell the cabinet what they need to know about national security threats that are coming down the line.

And they need to be involved.

in thinking about biodiversity and the climate, because these are things that pose an enormous risk to the UK, but they don't normally get through to that kind of military planning level.

And it's been in planning for a long time.

By the time it was first supposed to come out last October...

It had already been around for nearly a year.

A lot of people had seen it in the intervening months.

It wasn't viewed as a terribly secret thing.

It was intended for publication.

So we know that we have a lot of ecosystems around the world that are on the brink of collapse.

And that's from a combination of threats.

It's from the climate crisis.

It's from people turning forest and other landscapes to food production.

It's from pollution.