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Bell Ribeiro-Addy's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Bell Ribeiro-Addy

• 16 Oct 2024: Tweet

  We need more ambitious plans from government if we’re going to tackle climate breakdown. My article for @IndyVoices, setting out the case for a Green New Deal ???????? https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-100-days-green-new-deal-b2627813.html [Source]

• 23 Sep 2024: Tweet

  Great @CNDuk fringe meeting yesterday discussing the defence review. We need a new approach to defence policy which ends UK complicity in illegal wars, centres peace & diplomacy and recognises that the biggest threat facing the world is the shared threat of climate breakdown. https://twitter.com/BellRibeiroAddy/status/1838163417170899000/photo/1 [Source]

• 15 May 2024: Tweet

  RT @ClimateAPPG: NEW: To re-establish the UK as a climate leader, the @ClimateAPPG calls for @RishiSunak to: ⛔️End “maxing out” North Sea… [Source]

• 05 Mar 2024: Tweet

  The UK was the first major economy to set a target to set a net zero emissions target. With the Tories in charge, we'll be the last to actually achieve it. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/05/uk-spends-least-among-major-european-economies-on-low-carbon-energy-policy-study-shows [Source]

• 04 Mar 2024: Tweet

  Instead of accepting that there is broad democratic support for a ceasefire in Gaza and stronger policies to tackle climate breakdown, the Tories and their enablers want to silence campaigners for these things. They are a danger to our democracy. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/03/ministers-consider-ban-mps-engaging-pro-palestine-climate-protesters [Source]

• 08 Feb 2024: Tweet

  Global warming has exceeded 1.5° for a 1-year period for the first time on record. As the Tories continue with their bonfire of green policies, we will need rapid and radical action to combat climate breakdown. Now is not the time to scale back our green industrial strategy. [Source]

• 23 Jan 2024: Tweet

  I voted to throw out the Tories' latest fossil fuel licensing bill last night. Their fixation with drilling for new oil & gas will leave the country poorer & colder, exacerbating the climate crisis to appease a few fossil fuel multinationals and their shareholders. [Source]

• 12 Dec 2023: Tweet

  The climate minister called away during the vital closing stages of COP28 because the PM is scared he doesn’t have the votes to pass his unworkable deportation scheme. Sums up the current Tory circus: too obsessed with attacking refugees to focus on the major issue of our time. https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1734539644446863804 [Source]

• 20 Nov 2023: Tweet

  A new Oxfam report reveals that the richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%. An important reminder, as COP 28 approaches, that action on climate breakdown requires action on the inequalities that have fuelled it. [Source]

• 20 Mar 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  Just because, unlike the previous Budget, this one has not unravelled in about 20 minutes and led to panic selling in financial markets, the Government should not think that they have vastly redeemed themselves. We now know that the Chancellor’s flagship childcare policies will see nurseries going out of business. The fuel duty levy freeze makes a mockery of any commitment to net zero emissions targets. The removal of the cap on pension pots will affect hardly any consultant doctors at all. Instead, it is a general giveaway to very high earners, and one that protects them from inheritance tax to boot. Most egregiously of all there is a £29 billion handout to businesses, the same businesses that are already swimming in profits because of price gouging and profiteering. We know that this policy will not boost investment, because it has been tried before and failed.

  Full debate: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

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

• 23 May 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  The Bill targets, in particular, the activism of groups who have already been mentioned many times: groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain, Kill the Bill and the Black Lives Matter movement. All those groups have used disruption to draw attention to major injustices such as the climate crisis, attacks on our civil liberties and institutional racism. Rather than taking action to address those injustices, the Government want to stop people speaking out about them. We must remember that today’s protests are signposts for tomorrow’s progress.

  Full debate: Public Order Bill

• 1 Feb 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  Therefore, in the motion before the House the Opposition have offered a way forward: a windfall tax to help fund a package of support for families and businesses who are facing this crisis. I hope that such a package would include a programme of home insulation to increase energy efficiency. Our poorly insulated homes are giving rise to higher fuel costs and increasing our carbon emissions. But the ultimate solution would be one that helps fund the green industrial revolution, as the Labour party outlined at the last general election. We committed to a just transition fund, which was predicted to generate an £11 billion support package.

  The objection that my proposal is hugely costly does not carry much weight because the Treasury, through the Debt Management Office, can borrow for 10 years at interest rates below 1.4% per annum. The energy companies’ dividend yield is currently 4% or 5% per annum, so purchasing them would generate cash for the public finances, and the excess could be used for public good. The priorities for public good are to cut bills and invest in capacity. Overall, this capacity should overwhelmingly be from renewable energy.

  Full debate: Oil and Gas Producers: Windfall Tax

• 13 Dec 2021: Vote

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

• 19 Jul 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  We are living through an age of mass displacement driven by war, poverty and climate breakdown. Under the refugee convention, anyone seeking asylum should be able to claim in their intended destination or another safe country. Asylum seekers are under no obligation to seek refuge in the first country they arrive in, and there are a number of reasons why they may not do so.

  Full debate: Nationality and Borders Bill

• 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

• 18 May 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  As we come out of this pandemic, the Government will have missed a major opportunity: their own target to decarbonise by 2050. Even doing this by 2050 is not good enough, so why are there no specific measures in the Queen’s Speech about driving forward all our plans on protecting the environment? We have so little time and we should be doing so much more as a country.

  Full debate: Affordable and Safe Housing for All

• 13 Jan 2021: Vote

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

• 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

• 05 Feb 2020: Vote

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

• 30 Jan 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  The case for being more internationalist could not be clearer. Fires are burning in the Arctic, the Amazon and Australia. In Indonesia, just like in parts of Italy and Britain, flash floods and heatwaves expose people and places to unimaginable risk. My right hon. Friend the Member for Islington North led this House to declare a climate emergency, but the Government have carried on as if it is business as usual. Brexit, coming tomorrow, looks set to weaken environmental protections, unless climate breakdown is confronted. What future the people on our planet have hangs in the balance.

  This time of crisis is a test of the Government’s leadership and our duty to protect our citizens. Good leadership will create jobs, with a green new deal tackling economic insecurity and ecological crisis in one fell swoop. What leadership is it if we allow the Government to bury their heads in the sand as if the neoliberal pursuit of the profit for the 1% matters more than living within our planetary means in the interests of the 99%, citizens in constituencies like mine in Streatham? Our planet does not have time for the Government to check in with Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry about what we should do. The next generation needs real action on the climate crisis. From Britain came the industrial revolution. It is now time for us to lead the environmental revolution.

  Full debate: Global Britain