The election is heating up, but the major parties haven't been paying much attention to that other thing getting hotter.

We're not talking about me and my ravishing good looks.

We're talking about the planet. I'm Nishkavar and I'm Coco

Card and this is Pod Save the UK. And today it's all about the environment stupid.

To get into the nitty gritty of the environmental policies on offer at the election, we're joined by green economist

Adrian Buller and wildlife expert, campaigner, activist and all-round national treasure, Chris Packum.

But first, Shadow Net Zero Minister and former leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, has been out and about selling one of Labour's most intriguing policy pledges, the introduction of great British energy.

In an interview with the Iron newspaper,

Millaban said, we want to get going very, very quickly.

If we win the election, we will be implementing the most ambitious climate

and energy agenda in British history.

And he'd be correct, but to be fair, it's not saying all that much given the history of environmental

policy and also the manifesto pledges didn't go that far when it came to the other side of environmental

policy, wildlife and the natural world. Now the core of this, the most important

element of the climate agenda, has been getting the UK to net zero emissions by 2050 and has in recent history been a

cross-party project now just to clarify all of the terms that we're using

net zero is the government's route to achieving the targets set out in the Paris Climate Accords in COP21 in 2015

to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees on pre-industrialised levels.

And here in the UK, we were actually the first country in the world

to create legislation to make the targets legally binding.

So let's work out how our ambition is holding up.

So Labour introduced the climate change bill in 2008 to make it a legal

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