Lord David Frost recently downplayed the urgency of climate warming mitigation, suggesting that the UK manage this with air conditioning and structural changes to buildings. However, his stance seems dangerously shortsighted with looming threats like disease transmission from the tiger mosquito and potentially catastrophic shifts in weather patterns due to the Gulf Stream's instability. It's critical to approach climate change with the gravity and urgency it warrants, prioritising long-term safety over short-term convenience.

No one needs to be told that tempers flare with rising temperatures or that climate change is having a major effect on women and girls in terms of violence, and research is showing it.

Environmental concerns play a major role in the lives of our older adults, and pollution can shorten lifespans, decrease independence, and affect overall health.

Plastic pollution transcends borders, washing up on remote island shores and infiltrating the deepest ocean trenches.