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We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Ben Obese-Jecty

• 27 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @BenObeseJecty: Labour’s net zero zealotry places the onus of changing behaviour entirely upon the motor industry with no plan of how th… [Source]

• 27 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Labour’s net zero zealotry places the onus of changing behaviour entirely upon the motor industry with no plan of how the Government plays its role. Where is the plan to create national EV infrastructure to facilitate their plans? There is little incentive to switch to an EV. https://twitter.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1861656272111579212 [Source]

• 17 Nov 2024: Tweet

  “Each return flight pumps out at least 0.7 tons of CO2 per passenger, making the [British] delegation's flights' total carbon footprint at least 338 tons of CO2.” There is no real justification for us sending 470 delegates to COP29, more than any other country. https://x.com/BenObeseJecty/status/1858090599003390230/photo/1 [Source]

• 4 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Given the speed and alacrity with which the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has covered the countryside with solar panels, it should come as no surprise that the Government are so eager to force farmers out of business, freeing up swathes of the countryside to be sold to developers for more of the same. The Government will be forced into rowing back on this policy, whether it be now or after the visual spectacle of demonstrating farmers blockading Parliament Square with tractors. I urge the Government to do the right thing now, rather than being forced to do so in a few weeks.

  Full debate: Income Tax (Charge)

• 05 Sep 2024: Tweet

  RT @BenObeseJecty: “The clean energy auction cost £1.5bn. The Winter Fuel Payment is £1.4hn. For Labour net zero effectively means netting… [Source]

• 05 Sep 2024: Tweet

  RT @BenObeseJecty: “The clean energy auction cost £1.5bn. The Winter Fuel Payment is £1.4hn. For Labour net zero effectively means netting… [Source]

• 05 Sep 2024: Tweet

  “The clean energy auction cost £1.5bn. The Winter Fuel Payment is £1.4hn. For Labour net zero effectively means netting off clean energy against pensioners fuel bills.” On BBC #PoliticsLive yesterday highlighting the incoherence of Labour’s approach to cutting fuel bills. https://twitter.com/BenObeseJecty/status/1831585384133796018/video/1 [Source]

• 14 Jul 2024: Tweet

  The decision by Ed Miliband to force through the 3,000 acre Sunnica Energy Farm across farmland in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk is a prime example of how Labour are willing to jeopardise our food security and ignore rural communities in pursuit of net zero. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/13/fears-food-security-miliband-solar-farm/ [Source]

• 08 Feb 2024: Tweet

  The broader question now with regards to Labour’s ill-fated £28bn green infrastructure u-turn is how do they achieve their wider pledge of decarbonisation by 2030? How are the “fully costed” aims below achieved at a fraction of the investment? https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Mission-Climate.pdf https://twitter.com/BenObeseJecty/status/1755658416549187841/photo/1 [Source]

• 31 Dec 2023: Tweet

  474. Make the UK a climate leader In December 3023 Labour pledged to make the UK “lead from the front” in tackling the climate crisis under a Labour government. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/04/keir-starmer-vows-to-make-uk-climate-leader-again-labour-cop28-rishi-sunak [Source]

• 14 Dec 2023: Tweet

  469. Build pylons in the countryside quickly In November 2023 Steve Reed pledged to build pylons in the countryside quickly to reduce the wait for farmers and landowners to plug their renewable energy into the grid “from years to months”. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/30/labour-vows-to-rewire-britain-as-pylon-plans-spark-row-in-tory-party [Source]

• 06 Oct 2023: Tweet

  400. Reverse the net zero decision on the sale of petrol and diesel cars In September 2023 Labour pledged to reverse the decision on the sale of petrol and diesel cars and committed to the original 2030 deadline. https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/labour-would-reverse-rishis-net-zero-u-turn/ [Source]

• 29 Sep 2023: Tweet

  368. Build a partnership for radical climate action with Brazil In August 2023 Labour pledged to work with Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to build a partnership for radical climate action prior to the UN’s 2025 Cop30 climate summit in Belém https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/28/labours-david-lammy-visits-brazil-to-build-climate-justice-partnership?CMP=share_btn_tw [Source]

• 22 Sep 2023: Tweet

  314. Make Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030 In June 2023 Labour pledged to make Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030 by decarbonising the country’s electricity system. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-labour-vows-make-britain-clean-energy-superpower-by-2030-2023-06-18/ [Source]

• 22 Sep 2023: Tweet

  313. Create thousands of Scottish jobs in Green Energy In June 2023 Keir Starmer pledged to invest heavily in Scotlands East Coast ports as part of their £1.8bn pledge to upgrade ports across the UK. https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/labour-pledges-to-create-thousands-of-green-jobs-at-scottish-ports-4186579 [Source]

• 18 Sep 2023: Tweet

  “He is booked to appear on a number of US TV shows, as well as attending a New York "climate week" event and a discussion on social media at Colombia University.” Sadiq Khan wouldn’t even offset the CO2 from burning his gaslight. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66820972?at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign_type=owned&at_medium=social&at_format=link&at_link_origin=BBCRadioLondon&at_link_id=87213614-553B-11EE-B8B2-50F9ECABB293&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_campaign= [Source]

• 15 Sep 2023: Tweet

  261. Establish a public health mission delivery board In May 2023 Labour pledged to establish a mission delivery board to bring together all departments with an influence over the social determinants of health; akin to the Climate Change Committee. https://labour.org.uk/missions/nhs/ [Source]

• 04 Sep 2023: Tweet

  127. Create an ‘anti-OPEC’ alliance for renewable energy In November 2022 Labour pledged to create an ‘anti-Opec’ alliance for renewable energy, to bring down energy prices and promote clean technology. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/14/labour-would-create-anti-opec-alliance-for-renewable-energy-says-miliband [Source]

• 03 Sep 2023: Tweet

  112. Establish Skills England to oversee national skills development In September 2022 Labour pledged to establish Skills England, to oversee the national effort to meet the skills needed and ensure they can deliver their Climate Investment Pledge. https://labour.org.uk/updates/press-releases/ [Source]

• 03 Sep 2023: Tweet

  109. Create a National Wealth Fund In September 2022 Labour pledged to spend £8bn over the next decade creating a National Wealth Fund to invest alongside the private sector in green energy infrastructure. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rachel-reeves-labour-wealth-fund-industry-b2174891.html [Source]

• 29 Aug 2023: Tweet

  60. Climate Investment Pledge In June 2022 Labour pledged to introduce a climate investment pledge, to catalyse private sector investment and bring good, sustainable jobs to all parts of the country. https://labour.org.uk/updates/press-releases/ [Source]

• 29 Aug 2023: Tweet

  Given how toxic the ULEZ expansion has become, the impact of a zero emissions zone in Central London that would inevitably expand, a la ULEZ, makes it politically expedient not to pursue it ahead of an election… …but should Sadiq Khan win a third term… https://www.ft.com/content/d373d159-7a96-427a-9d97-14542eac8527 [Source]

• 01 Aug 2023: Tweet

  @Kevin_Maguire @DailyMirror The Daily Mirror print and distribute 250,000+ newspapers the length and breadth of the country every day. Presumably that’s done completely using renewable energy right? [Source]

• 16 Jul 2023: Tweet

  @ArchRose90 Why risk being impacted by the climate emergency you’ve raised the alarm on when you can sit out the worst of it drinking cocktails by the beach in Thailand? https://twitter.com/BenObeseJecty/status/1680600689389580288/photo/1 [Source]

• 23 Feb 2023: Tweet

  @nickeardleybbc @BBCr4today @BBCBreakfast Interested to understand how Labour are realistically going to deliver 100% renewable energy in little over a full term, effectively halving the already ambitious schedule, given it’s only c.40% at present? [Source]

• 05 Jan 2023: Tweet

  @respeak_uk @SkyNews Where have I ever been a climate change denier? [Source]

• 15 Nov 2022: Tweet

  In a little over the time I’ve been alive the world’s population has doubled, broadly increasing by 1 billion people each decade. Given the strain this places on resources it’s amazing how little this is covered relative to other aspects of climate change. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63623307 [Source]

• 07 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Except this isn’t a photo of Rishi Sunak en route to #COP27 as @JamesMelville would like you to assume. It’s a photo of him boarding an RAF flight in August 2020. That said, how is he supposed to get there if not by plane? https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1589398569160613888 [Source]

• 07 Nov 2022: Tweet

  @JamesMelville @JuliaHB1 This photo is from Aug 2020 and the jet belonged to the RAF. It has nothing to do with #COP27. This wouldn’t be fake news would it? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/millionaire-rishi-sunak-films-clip-22571467.amp [Source]

• 14 Jul 2022: Tweet

  This winter Gary Lineker will be covering the World Cup in Qatar, the country with the highest CO2 emissions per capita. Given he’ll likely fly there too, Perhaps he should ease off on the climate change chest-poking. https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1547258754227486723 [Source]

• 30 May 2022: Tweet

  Having been the first UK city to declare a climate emergency it’s farcical that Bristol’s outgoing mayor, Marvin Rees, made a 9,000 mile round trip flight to Vancouver to give a TED Talk on…. how to reduce CO2 emissions. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-61596817?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA [Source]

• 24 Sep 2021: Tweet

  Fascinating discussion on #R4Today regarding empty shelves and high job vacancies. Cost-price increases, CO2 shortages, global shipping issues, Covid causing more young people in full-time education and the withdrawal of over-50s from the labour market. Brexit not blamed once. [Source]

• 24 Aug 2021: Tweet

  @OwenJones84 @labourlewis The fact that Clive Lewis can discuss Afghanistan for 15mins mentioning climate change and food security before tribal conflict, poppy farming or the Taliban suggests he didn’t really understand why he was there at all. Hardly surprising he wasn’t asked to speak in the debate. [Source]

• 23 Aug 2021: Tweet

  In over 20mins on @novaramedia Clive Lewis somehow manages to talk about Afghanistan without mentioning the Taliban, or Al-Qaeda, but manages BLM, Climate Change and ‘the 1%’. Any solution for Afghanistan is far more complex than the over-simplification @labourlewis offers here. https://twitter.com/BenObeseJecty/status/1429894908383571977/video/1 [Source]

• 30 Jun 2021: Tweet

  @260Marathon @DonNantwich @BBCPolitics Vehicle Excise Duty is based on CO2 emissions, of which a bike produces zero. So how would you calculate a payment for cyclists using a non-polluting mode of transport? https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables [Source]

• 11 Mar 2021: Tweet

  On the windiest day of the year, good to see more investment in offshore wind with a further £95m pledged and the creation of another 6000 new jobs Green energy is the direction of travel for the sector and this puts the UK on the front foot for meeting it’s carbon neutral goals https://twitter.com/SciTechgovuk/status/1369913529411731459 [Source]

• 06 Oct 2020: Tweet

  A pledge by the PM to lead a green industrial revolution, with an investment of £160m to fund green-collar jobs and make Britain the world leader in renewable energy. Significant investment will further increase Britain’s position in the industry vanguard. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/boris-johnson-pledges-wind-power-will-run-every-home-in-britain-by-2030-sh9mcwm85?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1601942014 [Source]

• 02 Sep 2020: Tweet

  This tweet by @xryouthcambs was sent from an iPad. The iPad contains rare earth metals neodymium, dysprosium and praseodymium almost exclusively mined in China. China produces over a quarter of the world’s global CO2 emissions. “patriarchal colonial capitalism” https://twitter.com/orca_4_el/status/1300928071193817090 [Source]

• 15 Aug 2020: Tweet

  The attack on four political party HQ’s by @BespokePanic to highlight the climate emergency (again) is another example of bored middle-class socialists using vandalism and intimidation to push their fringe agenda. I hope that paint is water soluble... https://twitter.com/RealMediaGB/status/1294204187799179264/video/1 [Source]

• 06 Feb 2020: Tweet

  Excellent analysis by @KateAndrs. The UK’s role in climate change is one of influence (by example) rather than the limited global impact of solely achieving significant UK carbon emissions reduction. @COP26 | #ClimateChange https://twitter.com/KateAndrs/status/1225123865136893952 [Source]

• 31 Dec 2019: Tweet

  @londonette @BBCr4today Surely @TheSun should be commended for recycling rather than putting @MishalHusain and a crew on a return flight to Sweden to interview people on the front-line of climate change? [Source]

• 30 Dec 2019: Tweet

  There’s an argument that a 23 year old doesn’t have the experience or maturity to be an effective MP. Nadia Whittome’s lack of comprehension of what net zero in 2030 entails is worrying for someone who claims it’s their top priority. https://twitter.com/NadiaWhittomeMP/status/1211626361217048576 [Source]