UK spy agencies cancel climate‑security report
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- Fiona Harvey was invited to a Natural History Museum event in October that promised to launch a major climate‑security report.
- Joint intelligence committee (including MI5 and MI6) was to co‑author the report, linking climate and biodiversity threats to UK national security.
- Journalists were later uninvited from the event after the report’s release was cancelled.
- The report was ultimately not published, with insiders suggesting a larger issue was at play.
- Lt Gen Richard Nugee discussed with Nosheen Iqbal the security risks posed by the climate crisis to the UK.
Why it matters: By pulling the climate‑security report and barring journalists, the government shields the assessment from public scrutiny, preserving the intelligence agencies’ control over sensitive security analysis while denying the media and citizens insight into how climate and biodiversity threats could affect national safety.
