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Proceeding contribution from Lord Wakeham (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 16 May 2022. It occurred during Queen's speech debate on Queen’s Speech.

2050—I am just 100 years out. Even if we get to that, a lot of countries in the world will not. Two things follow from that. The first is that climate change will not be significantly improved. We in this country produce 1% of the world’s emissions, so if we have all the struggles and make the vast expenditures but other countries do not, we will not have achieved anything so far as climate change is concerned.

Secondly, if we have spent an enormous amount of money improving our electricity and getting it all done, our electricity will almost certainly be more expensive than it is in other countries. There is a danger we have to watch, as the heavy industrial users of electricity will build their factories in other countries, not in those that have spent all that money on this. We have the time to deal with this, but we have to be very careful that that is not the end result of what we do.

5.10 pm

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
822 c273 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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