A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before

By Marc Hudson, Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex

Last autumn, a UK government report warned that climate-driven ecosystem collapse could lead to food shortages, mass migration, political extremism and even nuclear conflict. The report was never officially launched.

Commissioned by Defra – the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs – and informed by intelligence agencies including MI5 and MI6, the briefing assessed how environmental degradation could affect UK national security.

At the last minute the launch was cancelled,…

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