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Fiona Harvey, you're the Guardian's Environment Editor, and we're here to talk to you about the report titled Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security.

Doesn't roll off the tongue, but you're about to explain to me why it's so important.

Can you start by telling us its origin?

What do we know about when this report was commissioned and who put it together?

I think a lot of people might just be trying to get their heads around the fact that, hang on, so the spy chiefs are interested in the climate crisis and how that poses a massive risk to our national security.

Fiona, what exactly were they tasked with looking at?

So Fiona, this report, which was supposed to be published in October last year, had this launch, which you'd had in the diary for weeks, but then suddenly the launch of the actual report was cancelled.

It seems quite unusual for an event at which, you know, you've got the king on standby to presumably have some sort of ceremonial presentation of his findings.

Do we have an idea why that happened?

Fiona, by January this year, pressure began mounting on the government to publish the full report.

Who was leading the charge here and what was their response?

So despite the fact that the government did only put out this 14-pager, you were able to obtain a fuller version or at least see or be read some of that report out.

Fiona, what did that version say and how different was it from what the government had published instead?

And what kind of timeline was the report presenting in terms of how far away was it suggesting or warning that the UK is from being exposed to the vulnerabilities of the collapse of ecosystems, of the climate crisis affecting other countries worldwide?

I mean...

Five, 10, 15, 20 years, Fiona?

What was the timeline being suggested?

Four years.

My God.

Lieutenant General Richard Nuge, welcome to Today in Focus.