Republican really embracing environmental rally (8)
I believe the answer is:
recovery
'rally' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'republican really embracing environmental' is the wordplay.
'republican' becomes 'r' (abbreviation).
'really' becomes 'very' (I've seen this before).
'embracing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'environmental' becomes 'eco' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'r'+'very'='rvery'
'rvery' placed around 'eco' is 'RECOVERY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for recovery that I've seen before include "Convalescence" , "Act of getting better" , "Rally" , "Upturn" , "Improvement" .)