Last week, David Lammy met with Mark Lynas, environmental activist and writer on climate change for the New Statesman, Ecologist, The Guardian and The Observer, and author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. They discussed the issue of climate change, and how in recent years environmental issues have come home to places like Tottenham. Recent polls have shown that, far from being just a middle class issue, the environment is big on everyone's agenda.

David's experience in Tottenham and across London - as well as in Guyana, where his family are from, and the developing world where he has witnessed the effects of climate change first hand as an Ambassador for Action Aid - is that increasingly inner city urban residents are becoming as politically motivated by environmental issues as their rural and suburban counterparts. This raises important challenges for politicians and activists alike to meet these rising expectations and engage with them on one of the most crucial issues of our times.