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Carla Denyer's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Carla Denyer in the last 90 days

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• 21 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Really interesting to meet with the Centre for Sustainable Energy, based here in Bristol, to discuss how we can work together to make homes warmer and more energy efficient and to ensure that our communities are given the training and skills needed for a cleaner, greener future. https://x.com/carla_denyer/status/1892957285397205357/photo/1 [Source]

• 07 Feb 2025: Tweet

  This January was the hottest on record and people across the globe are feeling the devastating impacts of the climate crisis. But the far-right, bankrolled by the ultra-wealthy, are organising to destroy climate action. Here's how we can stop them: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/reform-uk-deny-climate-change-global-temperatures-b2693621.html [Source]

• 04 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Really glad @Ed_Miliband agrees that airport expansion can only take place within environmental limits. We know airport expansion is completely incompatible with reaching our climate targets, and therefore I look forward to hearing him confirm that govt won't back any expansion. https://x.com/carla_denyer/status/1886822571024249309/video/1 [Source]

• 31 Jan 2025: Tweet

  I've just registered my opposition to plans to expand Bristol Airport - they're not only reckless and irresponsible in the face of the climate crisis but would expose residents to severe noise, road congestion and pollution. The consultation closes today: https://bristolairport-futureplans.co.uk/ [Source]

• 28 Jan 2025: Tweet

  RT @AdrianRamsay: The expansion of #Heathrow isn't only about climate breakdown, it's about fairness too A small minority of people take t… [Source]

• 24 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  Last week, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero and I were invited to see a play called “Kyoto”. [ Interruption. ] It looks like other Ministers were also there; I did not spot them. The play tells the story of the international climate negotiations in Kyoto, including the pivotal role that the late great John Prescott played in working collaboratively to forge a binding agreement between countries with vastly different politics and that agreed about very little. I found the play so moving and inspiring, and I thought I saw that the Secretary of State did, too. The next morning, I wrote to him, asking if he would be willing to have a call with me about this Bill and how we might be able to work together. I did that because this crisis is too big and too existential to leave to a party machinery whose prime motivation seems to be simply to be seen to win, as we saw reported in the news yesterday.

  I understand that the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) has agreed not to push it to a vote today, in exchange, it seems, for just a meeting with the Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero and a video, with an agreement to work together but with no specific commitments. That is her decision. [Interruption.] Let me continue, please. That is her decision. I am sad about it, but I wish her well and hope it works out.

  The climate is why I got into politics and I am not giving up that easily, so I have stood up today to say to the Government, “Please, give us real commitments, binding decisions, legislation, timetables and consequences.” The existing legislation to which the Government are working is based on science that is out of date, taking us back to a time when we thought that 2°C was a safe level of warming. It takes no account of the emissions from products and services that we import, no account of emissions from aviation and shipping, and no account of emissions from other greenhouse gases such as methane. In other words, it chooses not to count the tricky stuff and then slaps itself on the back for doing so jolly well at the easy stuff, and, as we have heard over and over again today, it does not join up climate and nature legislation or policy in any way.

  So I say to the Government again, “Please, please commit yourselves to real, binding, bold legislation that reflects the way in which the science has evolved since the Climate Change Act 2008, which was groundbreaking in its day but which has now been superseded by the climate science.” If they will not do so, I, as one of the Bill’s sponsors, will take this Second Reading to a vote. If they really think that they can look their constituents and their children in the eye—

  Even I do not love every clause of the revised version of the Bill. I would prefer its climate target to make explicit reference to the 1.5° limit and the UK’s fair contribution towards it. I very strongly disagree with the last-minute insertion of a presumption against large renewable projects, which was made without consulting the co-proposers. But the fundamental principles of the Bill are sound: laws based on the science, tackling climate and nature as one and doing things with people, not to people. It has the level of ambition that the science demands. It contains enough positive measures for me to give it my full support, putting aside my differences about those points.

  Full debate: Climate and Nature Bill

• 24 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Today I pushed for MPs to have a vote on the Climate and Nature Bill because the issue is simply too important to kick into the long grass. We have a vanishingly small window of opportunity to prevent climate catastrophe - govt needs to act now. #CANBill https://x.com/carla_denyer/status/1882870610055016911/video/1 [Source]

• 24 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Incredibly disappointed that MPs didn’t get the chance to vote on the Climate and Nature Bill - a crucial piece of legislation to prevent climate breakdown & protect our natural world. But thanks to all those who backed it - I'll keep fighting for urgent climate action #CANBill https://x.com/carla_denyer/status/1882830330182394027/video/1 [Source]

• 17 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The 1.5° global temperature limit was passed for the first time ever in 2024. This politically significant milestone is a stark reminder that we must leave no stone unturned as we make the systemic changes required to every part of our economy for a safe future. Rooftop solar is one of the easiest of the changes that we can make. As the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) said, it is a “win-win-win” policy that helps cut people’s bills and climate emissions, and helps strengthen our energy security.

  Clearly, housing developers can afford that cost, and neither they nor anyone else can afford the consequences of not meeting our solar or other climate targets. The Los Angeles wildfires are on track to be among the costliest in US history, as well as the most heartbreaking, with losses already expected to exceed £109.7 billion. Failing to decarbonise at speed, in line with the climate science, will dwarf the cost of future-proofing our homes. The moral case for acting is unequivocal, and so too is the economic one.

  Full debate: New Homes (Solar Generation) Bill

• 17 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Solar panels on all suitable new homes is a win-win-win: cutting bills, cutting emissions, and making UK more energy secure. We've got a vanishingly small window of chance to prevent climate breakdown & we need to take every chance we can get to bring down emissions #SunshineBill https://x.com/carla_denyer/status/1880240147087913316/video/1 [Source]

• 16 Jan 2025: Tweet

  The conversation around the climate crisis isn’t to change or not to change – change is coming for us whether we’re ready or not. Time for leaders to take their heads out of the sand - we need to decarbonise, fast, and make our communities resilient. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/economic-growth-could-fall-50-over-20-years-from-climate-shocks-say-actuaries [Source]

• 10 Jan 2025: Tweet

  As deadly wildfires rage in LA, news comes that the world has breached the 1.5 degree limit on warming- the limit that would have prevented the most deadly effects of the climate crisis UK needs to show leadership by ending ALL new fossil fuel drilling https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o [Source]

• 18 Dec 2024: Tweet

  I was pleased to attend the @ClimateAPPG + @EnvironmentAPPG event last night to celebrate the success of The Climate and Nature Leadership Programme. The UK must show much more ambition on tackling the climate crisis and I will continue to push for action in Parliament. https://twitter.com/ClimateAPPG/status/1869335615403331630 [Source]

• 17 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Thirteen oil and gas fields have been licensed for new drilling of dangerous fossil fuels but are still awaiting final approval. The Government paused those decisions while doing a consultation, but the consultation will not change the science: if we are to meet our climate targets, those fossil fuels must stay in the ground. Will the Secretary of State do the right thing by the poorest in our country, who are always at the sharpest end of climate action, and ensure that those licences will not be granted?

  Full debate: Topical Questions