The Climate Emergency

I welcome the cross-party consensus around stronger action on climate change, but action there do...

I tried to intervene on the Secretary of State about this. I and the Chair of the Select Committe...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We want rising standards and support for higher standards. It...

I welcome this Queen’s Speech, but before I talk about the environmental measures in it, I want t...

In the summer, Parliament declared a climate emergency and required the Government to bring forwa...

Order.

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I welcome the Queen’s Speech and some of the many measures that it contains. I also thank my righ...

I am pleased to take part in this debate today. There is no more important issue facing us than p...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for City of Durham (Dr Blackman-Woods) and to hear her...

There is so little time that I will just make one main point, and it is a very simple one: the Go...

At the beginning of last year, I was moved when I visited Calais and listened to the stories of s...

It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy) who I believe is one of ...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and Ethiopia has pledged to plant 4 billion trees in the ...

You took the words out of my mouth.

Labour Members are committed to nothing less than the t...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Norwich South (Clive Lewis). I recognise the passi...

Since I was first elected, I have received thousands of emails and letters about climate change—a...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Vicky Foxcroft). I welcome the...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (Bill Grant).

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not.

Roseanna Cunningham, Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate ...

It was encouraging that at the very outset of the Queen’s Speech the Government committed to seiz...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. As Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, I have no...

I totally concur that we need hon. Members to know what is in the new document. The hon. Gentlema...

The climate emergency is real, and we must act now to get to net zero as soon as possible. While ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse), but I have to say that while...

I know that the hon. Gentleman is trying to wind Members up, but he knows that when Margaret That...

I was being generous in giving way but, with hindsight, perhaps I should not have been. The point...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge). I start by echoin...

I begin by picking up where my hon. Friend the Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge) left of...

The climate emergency will not be resolved with combustible cladding and insulation, and there is...

I am in no doubt that all colleagues from all parties agree on the importance of taking action to...

On 1 May, the Labour Party, led ably by my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Sue Hayman), fo...

I have two things to declare. First, I am the vice-chair of the all-party group on fair fuel for ...

Order. I am afraid that I have to reduce the time limit to three minutes, because otherwise it wi...

The Members sitting on the Government Benches look comfortable, unruffled and complacent, while t...

Like my right hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Richard Benyon), I went outside to meet Extinct...

I welcome this opportunity to speak on the inclusion of the Environment Bill in the Queen’s Speec...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Angela Smith).

I...

It does not say much about the self-proclaimed world leader in climate change that there are no d...

My hon. Friend is talking about carbon capture. Does he agree that, instead of wasting billions o...

I agree wholeheartedly. The Government should be moving heaven and earth to get these carbon capt...

I beg colleagues not to take interventions, which increases their time. If they do, the Member wh...

We have heard lots about what we have not achieved, but it is worth pointing out that in the last...

Madam Deputy Speaker,

“There is no planet B.”

These are not my words; they are the wo...

The next time a young person asks me how seriously Parliament takes climate change I will struggl...

It has been galling this afternoon to listen to Government Members welcome the environmental comm...

Air quality is an issue of huge importance to my constituents in Lewisham East, to London and to ...

There is little dispute that we are living in a climate crisis. If serious action is not agreed o...

We have had a thoughtful, well-informed debate, with some excellent contributions, but sadly the ...

This has been a very good debate. While it was kicked off by my right hon. Friend the Secretary o...

rose—

I will not take an intervention as I have only three or four minutes to get through everybody els...

rose—

I will not give way. As I said, I only have a minute to deal with many colleagues’ contributions....