As right-populism rises around the world, mainstream parties have deprioritised climate ambition in a scramble for votes. But make no mistake: the hard right is ready to exploit the economic reality of climate impacts. Climate popularism is the way to stop them.

For mainstream parties here in the UK, the forward march of hard-right politics threatens to reduce elect-oral strategy to a single question: how to contain the populist insurgency. So far, the default response has been disastrous for climate action: chase right-leaning votes through copycat tactics, abandoning environmental pledges among ...

 

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