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The Climate Emergency

Proceeding contribution from Theresa Villiers (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 17 October 2019. It occurred during Queen's speech debate on The Climate Emergency.

I am going to make a little more progress.

Only six years ago, 40% of our electricity came from coal; now that figure is less than 5%. In 2018, more than a third of our electricity was generated by renewables, and earlier this year the UK went a whole fortnight without using electricity generated from coal, the first time this has happened since the industrial revolution. We have the largest installed offshore wind capacity in the world, and annual support for renewables will be over £10 billion by 2021.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
666 c507 
Session
2019-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Legislation
Environment Bill 2019
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