The new Government must expand the UK’s most senior climate diplomat post to include biodiversity, green groups have urged.

Labour has pledged to reinstate the UK Special Representative for Climate Change, which aims to further the country’s green goals internationally, including Cop summits.

During the election campaign last month, then-shadow foreign secretary David Lammy told businesses and trade bodies that the party would increase economic and climate attaches as well as reappoint a dedicated UK climate envoy.