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• 13 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Countries seeking debt relief are also experiencing extreme weather events due to climate change. Last year, Zambia had its most severe flooding for more than 50 years, with over 25,000 households affected. Right now, it is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years, with 50% of this year’s crops lost and with 2024 on track to be the hottest year on record. Zambia is suffering despite only contributing 0.01% of global greenhouse emissions since the industrial revolution. Although Zambia has sought debt relief from its largest private creditor, that creditor has refused to cancel the amount the International Monetary Fund has said is necessary to make the debt sustainable. That is typical of the behaviour of private creditors towards low-income countries. It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that countries such as Zambia get the debt justice they deserve, and it is imperative that we take action now.

  Before I conclude, I want to thank the organisations that have provided me with invaluable advice and support in preparing this Bill, which have been championing the cause of debt relief for many years. Those organisations are Christian Aid, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, and Debt Justice. I also wish to thank the Send My Friend To School coalition and the House of Commons Library for some of the statistics used in my speech. I hope that this Bill will go some way to securing debt relief for low-income countries, allowing the money saved to be reinvested in health and education systems for those who need that investment most and helping to tackle the effects of climate change, such as in the case of Zambia. Morally, it is the right thing to do; it is the just thing to do; and it is the compassionate thing to do. I hope this Bill will receive the support it deserves and needs.

  Full debate: Debt Relief (Developing Countries)

• 12 Sep 2024: Tweet

  Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to future generations to meet our 2050 net zero target. So yesterday I spoke to @GreenpeaceUK representatives about the strategies for bolder action on the climate crisis, improving air quality and addressing plastic pollution. https://twitter.com/BambosMP/status/1834211122993356927/photo/1 [Source]

• 20 Sep 2023: Tweet

  A bizarre speech. It’s more dithering and delay from a government in disarray. The climate emergency is our biggest threat. Watering down net zero and our environmental commitments today will be disastrous for tomorrow & future generations. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/sep/20/rishi-sunak-net-zero-targets-car-industry-uk-politics-live [Source]

• 18 May 2023: Tweet

  With new warnings this week about the world’s failure to tackle the climate crisis, it was important to join @christian_aid for #CAWeek & talk about climate justice and how extreme weather impacts some of the most vulnerable communities around the world. #IStandForClimateJustice https://x.com/BambosMP/status/1659155621176909825/photo/1 [Source]

• 26 Apr 2023: Tweet

  RT @CatherineWest1: Well, that is a lot of words to say "no". Unlike the Tories @UKLabour will put the climate crisis at heart of our for… [Source]

• 31 Jan 2023: Tweet

  With the impact of the climate crisis worsening ever year, it was important to join @unisontheunion this morning to celebrate our Environment Agency workers & their work to protect us and the environment. https://x.com/BambosMP/status/1620407504713969665/photo/1 [Source]

• 02 Nov 2022: Tweet

  RT @DavidLammy: It is shameful you had to be forced into attending #COP27 . Britain should be a leader on fixing the climate crisis - not… [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

  Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 22 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: When it comes to tackling climate change, the Tories are dangerously detached from reality. Labour will provide the l… [Source]

• 18 Jul 2022: Tweet

  Good to meet the Egyptian Ambassador today and to discuss Egypt’s vision for 2030, its role in the region, #COP27 relations with the UK and human rights @MfaEgypt https://x.com/Bambos_MP/status/1549151111516491776/photo/1 [Source]

• 04 Mar 2022: Tweet

  This week I was proud to support @FairtradeUK & raise awareness about the impact of the climate crisis on farmers around the world during #FairtradeFortnight. We need to deliver on commitments made at #COP26 and help those disproportionately affected by the climate crisis. https://x.com/Bambos_MP/status/1499682330310549505/photo/1 [Source]

• 19 Jan 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  T5. With millions of species at risk of extinction and deforestation accelerating across the globe, it is imperative that we limit global warming to 1.5 degrees to halt this catastrophic decline, so will the Minister now accept Labour’s call for a net zero and nature test to align public spending and infrastructure decisions with our climate and nature commitments? ( 905154 )

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 13 Dec 2021: Vote

  Subsidy Control Bill — Schedule 1 - The subsidy control principles - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 15 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @Keir_Starmer: Boris Johnson is the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. #COP26 https://t.co/KzecaryvdI [Source]

• 14 Oct 2021: Tweet

  As the Conservatives continue to kick the climate change can down the road, @UKLabour is demanding real action during #COP26 – before it is too late. Take a look at Labour’s demands to the Government here ???? https://labour.org.uk/labours-cop26-demands/ [Source]

• 14 Oct 2021: Tweet

  The climate emergency is our biggest threat & it is here now. Ahead of #COP26, we need real leadership to tackle the climate crisis, including supporting the most vulnerable & ensuring the global ambition to limit warming to 1.5 degrees is achieved. https://x.com/Bambos_MP/status/1448680012769529860/photo/1 [Source]

• 7 Sep 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  3. What fiscal steps he is taking to help achieve the Government’s net zero emissions target. ( 903237 )

  Full debate: Net Zero Emissions and Green Investment

  The recent Climate Change Committee progress report showed that the Treasury had not fully met a single one of its recommendations in the past year. Does the Minister think this is good enough, and what steps should be taken to rectify that?

  Full debate: Net Zero Emissions and Green Investment

• 07 Sep 2021: Tweet

  Ahead of @COP26, the UK is failing to meet legally binding #NetZero targets. The cost of inaction is huge & the Treasury should be leading our net-zero efforts, but the Chancellor has repeatedly failed to provide leadership. I asked what steps are being taken to change this ⬇️ https://x.com/Bambos_MP/status/1435216612873940996/video/1 [Source]

• 8 Jun 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  If the public order provisions in the Bill had been in place when the suffragettes marched for the right to vote, would the women who shouted and screamed noisily for their future have been arrested? Does the Minister think that the marchers for the right to work or those on the anti-apartheid protests should have been stopped for causing annoyance or being too noisy? Do the Government want to stop the children who are shouting loudly for action on climate change or to prevent people across the country from marching to remind people in the establishment that black lives matter?

  Full debate: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)

• 07 Jun 2021: Vote

  Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill — New Clause 1 - Human Rights Abuses - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 26 May 2021: Vote

  Environment Bill — New Clause 24 - Prohibition on burning of peat in upland areas - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 22 Apr 2021: Tweet

  RT @UNICEFuk_action: Today, #EarthDay2021, marks 1⃣9⃣3⃣ days to @COP26! ????️ @UnicefUK_Action want to make sure every child, everywhere, i… [Source]

• 13 Jan 2021: Vote

  Financial Services Bill — Schedule 2 - Prudential regulation of FCA investment firms - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 26 Nov 2020: Tweet

  RT @UKLabour: On this day 12 years ago, Labour took action to tackle the climate crisis. We need this Government to show some leadership… [Source]

• 16 Nov 2020: Vote

  Pension Schemes Bill [Lords] — Clause 124 - Climate change risk - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 12 Oct 2020: Vote

  Agriculture Bill — After Clause 42 - Contribution of agriculture and associated land use to climate change targets - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 29 Sep 2020: Vote

  United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — New Clause 6 - Economic development: climate and nature emergency impact statement - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 17 Sep 2020: Tweet

  RT @UKLabour: Five years ago, nations came together to set #GlobalGoals to end poverty, end gender inequality and to tackle climate change.… [Source]

• 20 Jul 2020: Tweet

  RT @mtpennycook: We cannot hold ourselves up as a climate leader while funnelling billions of pounds of public money into fossil fuel proje… [Source]

• 05 Feb 2020: Vote

  Transport - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 26 Jun 2019: Tweet

  Great to meet the Enfield Southgate Climate Emergency lobby on Wednesday by the Thames along with @CAFOD and other local groups and to listen to their concerns. Urgent action is desperately needed to stop climate change #TheTimeIsNow #ClimateCrisis https://x.com/BambosMP/status/1144018276529463296/photo/1 [Source]

• 25 Jun 2019: Vote

  Delegated Legislation — Value Added Tax - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 13 May 2019: Tweet

  RT @RLong_Bailey: We need a #GreenIndustrialRevolution to tackle climate change and transform towns across the UK that have been held back… [Source]

• 09 May 2019: Tweet

  RT @RLong_Bailey: The costs of inaction on climate change are staggering. Remember that if people tell you we don’t have the money or reso… [Source]

• 23 Apr 2019: Tweet

  RT @eloisetodd: Deeds not words: countries need to take action to beat climate change. You did not act in time': Greta Thunberg's full spe… [Source]

• 29 Mar 2019: Tweet

  RT @RLong_Bailey: On the same day government refuses to accept @SueHayman1's challenge to declare an environment and climate emergency, new… [Source]

• 28 Mar 2019: Tweet

  RT @SueHayman1: I have just declared an environment and climate emergency in the House of Commons on behalf of @UKLabour and challenged Mic… [Source]

• 28 Mar 2019: Tweet

  RT @LukePollard: BREAKING: Labour’s @SueHayman1 has just announced we will declare a national climate emergency and challenged Michael Gove… [Source]

• 20 Mar 2019: Tweet

  Supporting all kids on climate change strike by speaking up in Parliament #ClimateChangeStrike . The Government is coasting on climate change. https://x.com/BambosMP/status/1108407340380901376/video/1 [Source]

• 19 Mar 2019: Parliamentary Speech

  The UN says that we have less than 12 years to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and on Friday thousands of schoolchildren marched for their futures. Given that emissions fell last year by only 1.5%—less than half the 3.2% fall recorded the year before—does the Minister agree with the Environmental Audit Committee that the Government are “coasting” on climate change?

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 02 Mar 2019: Tweet

  @lethargicmargin I’ll be asking the Government questions what progress they are making in becoming net zero as soon as possible, how they are influencing other countries to meet their targets and speaking out about the need for immediate global action to tackle climate change whenever possible. [Source]

• 08 Oct 2018: Tweet

  RT @RLong_Bailey: Today's #IPCC report is sobering - a call for transformative action to avoid dangerous climate change. That is Labour's o… [Source]

• 25 Sep 2018: Tweet

  Brilliant speech from @RLong_Bailey with five point plan to save our high streets, challenging climate change, increasing wind farms to eliminate fuel poverty, more worker protection and kickstarting a new industrial revolution and reclaiming the future! @UKLabour #Lab18 https://x.com/BambosMP/status/1044556163029880832/photo/1 [Source]

• 07 Aug 2018: Tweet

  RT @RLong_Bailey: Labour vows to boost British renewable energy firms https://t.co/UI4580JFkZ [Source]

• 28 Jul 2018: Tweet

  Great to meet the local Climate Change Coalition at my alfresco surgery this morning. Climate change is the biggest threat facing the planet and we need to lead the way in being net zero in our consumption of energy #SpeakUp #climatechange https://x.com/BambosMP/status/1023186915166699520/photo/1 [Source]

• 01 May 2018: Tweet

  RT @RLong_Bailey: How we will aim to cut 4million people's heating bills by up to £270 a year, help meet our climate change commitments and… [Source]

• 13 Mar 2018: Parliamentary Speech

  When I asked Octopus and Bulb this morning whether there was a need to tighten the definition of renewable energy, they both agreed that there was. They saw it as a way of the big six getting round the cap. So does my hon. Friend agree that there needs to be a tightening of the definition?

  That concern was absolutely right. Regrettably, it is the case that throughout the present tariff offer a number of tariffs are in place that purport to be green tariffs, but when we drill down to what they consist of, they are pretty much not green tariffs. They may have a part of renewable energy in their make-up. It may be claimed that the company is advantageously purchasing renewable energy as part of its overall purchase arrangements, but of course we know in terms of today’s energy mix that it is fairly difficult to rigidly remove oneself from purchasing any renewable energy in the portfolio of purchases for tariff purposes.

  This is an important area of the Bill. Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a requirement on energy companies to source renewable energy—quite rightly—and those costs are already spread across all bill payers? Why should there be a premium on top?

  The point that my right hon. Friend makes is, I think, taken into account by the circumstances that now apply across the board for energy sourcing. As she and I know, having talked about this for years, the process of the renewables obligation did impose a particular obligation for a proportion of energy purchased to be green. Then there was a system of trading those obligation certificates. Those people not directly purchasing green energy would have to purchase certificates, which could be traded from those who had actually traded in green energy in the first place, so that those involved had, in one way or another, carried out their obligation. The overall design of the renewables obligation system was to encourage the production of green energy, because the beneficiaries of the certificates when they were traded in cash would be the producers. That was a system that very much incorporated in it an incentive to trade in green energy in the first place.

  Now, of course, the renewables obligation is no more. It continues as a ghost trade system and will continue on a declining basis, I think, until 2027, but as of March 2017 no more renewables obligation certificates are being issued. They are being replaced by the contracts for difference system, which does not impose an obligation to purchase green energy in the same way as the renewables obligation system did. The prospective system does not, as my right hon. Friend suggested, provide a universal underwriting of green energy production. She is right, of course, that the system overall encourages renewable energy production, but not in the same way as the renewables obligation.

  I do not think that that particularly detracts from my right hon. Friend’s fundamental point, but it puts us in a position where we can properly consider the idea that a number of energy companies might accidentally, as it were, purchase green energy that does not, otherwise, have an obligation attached to it, and introduce it as part of a green tariff that is not really a green tariff. I suggest that companies wholly in the business of producing renewable energy, or those that produce it from their own sources or sources guaranteed through a power purchase agreement, or something similar, with the operator, are in a different category. I want to emphasise that difference with respect to the purpose of the amendment.

  That is a reasonable and honestly held opinion about the extent to which it is possible easily to distinguish when greenwash is not greenwash and the point at which an energy company, even with a partially green tariff, puts in something that is honestly green and not something that they have just cooked up because they happen to have purchased something that has an element of traceable green energy in it.

  I have tried to think this through and consider how we might be able to make honest citizens of those companies under such circumstances. It is possible to argue that even if a company accidentally buys green energy, if it is genuine green energy, then yes, it has sourced green energy. However, the bar needs to be set rather higher.

  The hon. Gentleman’s amendment uses the word “wholly”. In my view, “wholly” means that 100% of the energy would be renewable. To me, that is wholly unworkable. I want more consumers to get more choice. If they really wish to buy more renewable energy packages, they can do that. I would also like to see green tariffs that encourage smart consumption—smart appliances that switch on and off at peak times, for example. Those could also be bundled into a green tariff.

  Full debate: Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill (Second sitting)