- UK MPs demand full publication of a classified spy agency report warning that ecosystem collapse abroad will have catastrophic national security consequences, including severe food shortages within five years.
- The government has only released a redacted 14-page summary despite the report detailing risks of food shortages, price hikes, migration, political destabilization, and possible war due to human-induced climate crisis and over-exploitation.
- MPs criticize the government for failing to link national security threats to climate and biodiversity collapse while cutting overseas aid and climate finance budgets, contrasting with increased defense spending.
- The unpublished report, involving the Joint Intelligence Committee, highlights risks from collapses in ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest, which could shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source.
- Publication of the full report was blocked by Downing Street last October and again at the Cop30 summit, with insiders attributing the suppression to political advisors.
- Despite claims of being "laser-focused" on nature protection, the UK has slashed climate assistance to poor countries, removing ringfenced nature spending and affecting projects globally.