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Climate change concerns increased sharply this summer, new polling reveals
Firefighters battling a grass fire on Leyton flats in east London, August 2022

PUBLIC concern about climate change has increased sharply this summer, new polling reveals.

One in four Britons now see the environment as an important issue for the country,  double the proportion in July.

The findings from the monthly Ipsos Issues Index come after the Tories faced a backlash for watering down green policies, supposedly in response to the cost-of-living crisis.

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