COP26

If I may say so, Madam Deputy Speaker, that was the usual pathetic attempt by the Leader of the O...

I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. May I first echo t...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right about the vital importance of the private sector. I thin...

May I associate myself with the remarks of the Prime Minister on the terror attack that we saw in...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman. I should say, taking his points in reverse order, that of cours...

May I join the warm congratulations to the COP President and his team, and, on the location, ackn...

I thank my right hon. Friend. As he knows, the UK has virtually doubled our investment in R&D, an...

May I associate myself and my party with the Prime Minister’s remarks on the horrific attacks in ...

The right hon. Gentleman knows very well that, after UK leadership, we secured at COP an end to t...

It is clear that the COP in Glasgow has gone better than many of us feared, but, as I am sure my ...

Yes, indeed; although vaccines per se were not discussed at COP, there was a long discussion at t...

I thank the Prime Minister for the comments he made about the appalling attack in Liverpool yeste...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman. On his point about picking up potential terrorists earlier, he ...

indicated dissent.

The big emitters.

I see; he is talking about India, China and others. [Interruption.] I am sorry, Madam Deputy Spea...

I congratulate the Prime Minister on his Glasgow achievements. Can he say what is being done to r...

My right hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. The resources are there. There are adequ...

First, may I pay tribute to the right hon. Member for Reading West (Alok Sharma)? He has gained e...

What I can certainly tell the hon. Gentleman is that the 125% super deduction he rightly refers t...

One of the most significant diplomatic achievements of the COP was getting 130 countries, includi...

Yes. My hon. Friend makes an absolutely crucial point. This time it will be different, because at...

There was a welcome acknowledgement at COP that the world cannot decarbonise without steel, wheth...

It is always worth remembering that steel output fell by 50% under the Labour Government because ...

I thank the Prime Minister, the COP26 President, my right hon. Friend the Member for Reading West...

Yes. I thank my hon. Friend. I should have renewed my thanks for the Italian presidency of the G2...

New Delhi is now heading into a pollution lockdown because of the emissions affecting the people ...

On the right hon. Gentleman’s last point, yes, of course that it is right. We are abandoning expo...

After the downfall of the Soviet Union, it was discovered that various multilateral agreements th...

One of the things that we agreed at this COP—and one of the reasons why I believe it is so histor...

The COP26 President has undoubtedly done an excellent job, but frankly, that is no thanks to the ...

The hon. Lady, again, rather like the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (K...

Order. Hon. Members must not shout at the Prime Minister. Everyone will have a chance to ask thei...

He is not answering my question!

And the hon. Lady certainly must not shout at me.

I urge the Prime Minister and other world leaders not to get ahead of public opinion on this. The...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Of course we must be realistic, but we have seen that it i...

Does the Prime Minister agree that if we are to have any hope of keeping 1.5° alive, we need to l...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. If he is offering full support to the Government from the Op...

Does not the landmark agreement to support South Africa’s just transition show that even economie...

I thank my hon. Friend, who is the trade envoy to South Africa. I also thank the Government of So...

All the commitments that countries have made in Glasgow have credibility only to the extent that ...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the need to decarbonise our heating, but ...

I congratulate the Prime Minister, the COP26 President and their teams on their historic achievem...

I passionately agree: I know that UK farming is getting cleaner and greener all the time. I pay t...

Commitments are one thing; actions are another. For the UK to deliver on its promises and commitm...

The hon. Lady is right to say that a just transition is vital, but that is why we are investing £...

I congratulate the Prime Minister and the President of COP26 on their leadership in Glasgow. Does...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on his plug for the Huddersfield-Penistone-Sheffield line. As he kn...

The Prime Minister was sent to Glasgow to keep 1.5 alive, and left it in intensive care. A year a...

I do not think that any Government in history have done more to support green technology and gree...

The Prime Minister is right to say that the whole country should take pride in the manner in whic...

My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I think that that was one of the most important de...

Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to show that Britain leads by her actions, not by h...

Australia has made its first ever commitment to net zero, and if you want to look at UK leadershi...

The United Kingdom has an enviable record of phasing out coal because of the success of our renew...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have proceeded at such a pace that the cables come ashore ...

I call Margaret Ferrier.

I was not expecting that, Madam Deputy Speaker. First, I thank the COP26 President’s parliamentar...

I thank the hon. Lady very much. We are supporting the campaign for jet zero; we want the UK to l...

May I add my thanks to the Prime Minister and the unflappable, unstoppable COP26 President sittin...

Yes. I thank my hon. Friend, who is totally right. The way to finish the job on coal is to show c...

We have been considering this subject now for an hour, which is the normal time for a statement. ...

The Prime Minister probably admits that the weakest link of the deal was the lack of progress on ...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. The power of consumers, pension holders and in...

Real progress has been made at COP26, and we should all be grateful to its president and the Prim...

The most important tool we have now is transparent data. We agreed the Paris rulebook, so people ...

I add my voice to those calling for urgent climate justice reparations for the least-developed co...

We want to move beyond coal. We will have no more coal from 2024, and around the world we are no ...

At COP in Glasgow, I picked up some frustration from developing countries about the $100 billion ...

We will make sure that we hold the developed world’s feet to the fire. We got very close to the $...

The Prime Minister has dodged the issue of turning the City of London into the capital of green i...

The City of London is already the global centre of green investment, and its lead is continually ...

Will the Prime Minister join me in thanking the COP26 President’s Parliamentary Private Secretary...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I pay tribute to the COP26 President’s brilliant Parliamentar...

The UK’s leadership of COP26 was undermined by climate hypocrisy at home, but we still have the C...

This country has already shown unbelievable leadership in powering beyond coal, and the countries...

As my right hon. Friend is aware, northern Lincolnshire and the Humber are major centres of our r...

Yes. I congratulate my hon. Friend on what he is doing to support low-carbon industries across th...

I noticed that the Prime Minister mentioned Aristotle in his statement, so could he explain how b...

Because we have not. What we are doing is continuing—[Interruption.] Opposition Members must real...

I congratulate the Prime Minister and the COP President on the incredible achievements at the COP...

My hon. Friend is making a very important point. We have not only to train more people up in STEM...

We know that the COP26 agreement is the bare minimum in terms of what needs to be done to tackle ...

I thank the right hon. Lady for that, but we are going beyond hydrocarbons faster than virtually ...

I pay tribute to the COP President for his work. Will the Prime Minister now indicate how he is g...

We will hold all coal producers, importers and mining countries around the world to their commitm...

I am sorry to cast a shadow on the mutual backslapping here today, but there has been widespread ...

The Opposition have had a very tough job this afternoon, because they have tried time and again t...

I was pleased to attend a part of COP26 as a member of the Environmental Audit Committee. It was ...

The hon. Member is talking total rubbish. We have doubled—[Interruption.] No, Opposition Members ...

Bristol was the first local authority in the country to declare a climate and ecological emergenc...

I thank Bristol for what it is doing. We are committed to regional plans for net zero. It should ...

The Department of Energy and Climate Change, which was under Lib Dem leadership until 2015, was a...

The hon. Lady is totally wrong, because we need to integrate business into the fight against clim...

The Government say they are now following the science—they said it during covid and they are sayi...

I do not know quite what relevance that has to COP, but the UK is investing massively. We have do...

Order. Will everyone who has a long question written or typed out edit it to half what they have?...

At COP26, the Prime Minister said we were at one minute to midnight; I am afraid his clock might ...

The reason why we have been able to get considerable success at COP is because the whole world ca...

The review commissioned by the Treasury and carried out by Professor Dasgupta of the University o...

I am grateful to Professor Dasgupta. At COP26 we had not only an immense agreement on forests, wh...

A potential barrier to the accelerated move towards 100% zero emission vehicles that the Prime Mi...

One of the most important things is to ensure that we have enough baseload electricity, which is ...

In order to meet our commitments on net zero, the Humber energy estuary will play a vital role. S...

Order. The right hon. Lady must not say, “So, Prime Minister”. She must ask whether the right hon...

I understand and I apologise.

I congratulate the Humber and the whole region on what they are doing in green technology and car...

In the run-up to COP, the Prime Minister spoke about Kermit the Frog. On the first day of COP, he...

As I say, the Opposition have struggled all afternoon with the appalling fact that COP26 has been...

I have been at many COPs and each one agrees on more ambition, but we are yet to see the action t...

I cannot believe that the hon. Member has been at that many COPs because no previous COP has agre...

Glasgow is a proud host of COP. I thank my constituents, Glasgow businesses and COP volunteers wh...

I have seen some wonderful new technologies being developed by people and businesses in Glasgow. ...

I was at COP representing the Inter-Parliamentary Union as the global co-rapporteur for COP26. Th...

The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. The next Egyptian presidency of COP will focus on ad...

The Glasgow climate pact included a request that countries return next year with stronger targets...

Australia did make a commitment to net zero. Electorates and consumers around the world are now g...

When we consider energy efficiency, the UK has some of the draughtiest homes in Europe. A nationa...

We are committed to retrofitting homes around the whole UK. As I said earlier, the housing stock ...

Rather than self-congratulations today, surely the time to judge the historical significance of t...

I think the whole House will agree that 2050 is frankly far too late. That is why we are making t...

Thank you. I appreciate that this statement has taken a long time, but it is an historic matter a...