Ed Miliband vows to engage with China on climate after Tory ‘negligence’

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Ed Miliband has accused the previous Conservative government of negligence for failing to engage with China on climate issues, as he travelled to Beijing for the countries’ first formal climate meetings since 2017. The secretary of state for energy security and net zero was in Beijing to announce a new annual UK-China climate dialogue. The first summit will take place in London later this year. China’s minister of ecology and environment, Huang Runqiu, is expected to attend. The dialogue “is an essential start to putting an end to what I call the previous strategy of negligence”, Miliband said. He said...