Miliband must match climate rhetoric with action amid broken cross-party consensus

<p>Energy and net zero secretary fought back against climate deniers on the right but key tests lie ahead</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/14/ed-miliband-says-tories-are-anti-science-for-abandoning-net-zero-consensus">Miliband says Tories are ‘anti-science’ for abandoning net zero consensus</a></p></li></ul><p>Ed Miliband made a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/14/ed-miliband-says-tories-are-anti-science-for-abandoning-net-zero-consensus">passionate and patriotic case for climate action</a> in his first annual statement to parliament on the devastating impacts of global heating.</p><p>After laying out the “uncomfortable, sobering facts” of the increasingly unstable climate we now face, he highlighted how the UK has led global efforts to bring emissions down including passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which was copied around the world, and being the first country to set legally binding nature targets.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/14/ed-miliband-annual-statement-environment-climate-crisis">Continue reading...</a>