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Clive Lewis's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

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

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• 01 Apr 2025: Tweet

  It’s not ‘Awful April’. It’s the culmination of a fifty-year fuckerie As @MartinSLewis warns, corporate price gouging is on the rise. Because how do you make super profits during a climate crisis & trade war? You squeeze the public Time for our democracy to take back control. https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1906794075296014667 [Source]

• 28 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The clock is ticking. The climate crisis is no longer a distant warning. It is our lived reality. Rising droughts, creeping desertification, depleted aquifers, wildfires, systemic collapse—these are no longer projections; they are the forecast turned fact. Preparing for this future and adapting to what is now inevitable has never been more urgent.

  The evidence is sobering. The UK’s water resources are under mounting pressure and not just from the climate emergency, but from rising demand and population growth. Experts now project that England could face significant water supply deficits as early as 2034 unless we act decisively. That is not a distant horizon; it is a little over a decade away.

  But while the threat has grown, our resilience has shrunk, because while the climate crisis has intensified, our water infrastructure has stood still, or, worse, been sold off, hollowed out and left to rot. In the 35 years before privatisation almost 100 reservoirs were built; in the 35 years since privatisation, not one major English reservoir has been built. But it gets worse, because in that same period private water companies have sold off 25 reservoirs without replacing one. Instead of investing in resilience, they have extracted value: £72 billion paid out in dividends while pipes leak, rivers choke, and the public pays the price. My hon. Friend the Member for Bury North (Mr Frith) asks how we can afford it; how can we not afford it? That is not mismanagement; it is a betrayal. If scientists tell us the climate crisis is an existential threat to humanity and to this country—

  If scientists tell us the climate crisis is an existential threat to humanity and to this country, we must treat it as such: an existential conflict. In that context, the actions of these companies—selling off reservoirs, failing to invest, polluting our water—are not just negligent; they are acts that actively undermine our national water security. In any other existential crisis, we might call that what it is: sabotage. And in a time of national peril, sabotage has another name: treason.

  My Water Bill delivers that. It sets out the high standards our country deserves and the democratic governance our water system desperately needs. First, it establishes clear, ambitious targets to stop the sewage in our rivers and on our beaches, to restore our water to high ecological and chemical standards, and to deliver universal, affordable access to water as a basic human right—a right we have never had before in this country. It demands a system designed not just to extract profit but to adapt, to build resilience in the face of climate change, and to harness nature-based solutions that work with the environment, not against it.

  Full debate: Water Bill

• 01 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @zerohour_uk: The CEO of @theCCCuk is spot on. https://x.com/zerohour_uk/status/1895849325739290808/photo/1 [Source]

• 01 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @labourlewis: Trump. Climate Breakdown. Environmental Crises. The world is changing, but we’re still playing by an old set of rules that… [Source]

• 28 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Trump. Climate Breakdown. Environmental Crises. The world is changing, but we’re still playing by an old set of rules that sacrifices the poorest but spares the wealthiest to fund the essential functions of the state. https://x.com/labourlewis/status/1895529941816787286/video/1 [Source]

• 19 Feb 2025: Tweet

  1/ The question of who owns our water is more urgent than ever. ????Climate breakdown means higher risks of floods & droughts. ????Decades of neoliberalism have eroded democracy & trust. ????The cost-of-living crisis & soaring bills have left families struggling. [Source]

• 19 Feb 2025: Tweet

  1/ The question of who owns our water is more urgent than ever. ????Climate breakdown means higher risks of floods & droughts. ????Decades of neoliberalism have eroded democracy & trust. ????The cost-of-living crisis & soaring bills have left families struggling. [Source]

• 18 Feb 2025: Tweet

  RT @CompassOffice: London could run out of water by 2050. Climate change is bringing higher risks of droughts & floods. Water companies a… [Source]

• 04 Feb 2025: Tweet

  7/ Home retrofitting to cut energy bills, create jobs, and tackle the climate crisis. Expanding universal basic services—from transport to childcare—so people’s lives aren’t at the mercy of profiteers. That’s the way forward, not reactionary panic over Reform UK. [Source]

• 30 Jan 2025: Tweet

  RT @labourlewis: 1/ Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) are being sold as the magic bullet for decarbonising air travel. Let’s break down wh… [Source]

• 30 Jan 2025: Tweet

  @Selhurstboys Synthetic fuels still produce nitrous oxide and toxic ultra fine particulate matter? It’s entirely possible to decarbonise and still destroy the planet/ourselves. [Source]

• 30 Jan 2025: Tweet

  5/ Producing SAFs—especially synthetic fuels—requires massive amounts of renewable electricity. Shiuld we prioritise an energy-hungry, high-emission industry over decarbonising sectors like homes, transport, answer & industry? That & higher demand pushes up our energy prices. [Source]

• 30 Jan 2025: Tweet

  1/ Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) are being sold as the magic bullet for decarbonising air travel. Let’s break down why SAFs are NOT a panacea and why we need deeper changes to tackle aviation’s climate impact. ???????? https://x.com/labourlewis/status/1884896348945703332/photo/1 [Source]

• 25 Jan 2025: Tweet

  I spoke in support of the Climate and Nature Bill. In this clip from my speech, I explain that the climate and nature crises are here right now, and we need more decisive action now, too. The Bill didn't pass, but I am pleased the government has responded constructively, including new promises to report progress towards climate and nature targets, consulting the Bill’s supporters about forthcoming environmental legislation, and more meetings between the government and MPs concerned about the c [Source]

• 24 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  We have this stubborn inflation that will not go away, and we cannot seem to get growth in our economy. This is the climate crisis—this is what it looks like. We were warned about it by Stern decades ago, but it is here now. We need to do something about it; in fact, we need to do a lot about it. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Broadland and Fakenham (Jerome Mayhew) is chuntering away—he is more than welcome to make an intervention, if he wishes. If he does not, I will continue.

  I want to talk about something that we in this place still do not quite get: the interconnectedness between climate and nature. The hon. Member for South Cotswolds discussed that very well, and I want to tease it out a bit further. Many of us now see tackling the climate crisis as an economic opportunity. I understand that, and there is a lot of mileage in it. However, it is quite possible to tackle the climate crisis—to build solar farms and wind farms, and do all the things that decarbonise—yet still kill the biodiversity of the planet. It is entirely possible to do both. Now that many of us in this place understand the climate crisis, we have to ensure that we also understand the nature and biodiversity crisis.

  I was invited down to the ancient woodland, and yes, there were bats there. I know that the proposed carbon offsetting would have meant the planting of tens of thousands of new saplings to replace the ancient woodland, which would have ensured that the carbon sequestration took place and that we could still hit our climate targets. However, I went down there and saw a flint axe head. I saw an ancient oak woodland that had been there for tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of years. The complex biodiversity that was there—the insects, the birds, the mycelium networks underneath the ground—was beautiful. I could feel how old it was, and it was going to be bulldozed over and replaced with tens of thousands of saplings somewhere else in Norfolk.

  At that point, I understood that it is entirely possible for us to hit our climate targets as we rip up and destroy a 10,000 or 50,000-year-old woodland. At that moment, I realised that I could never allow the road to be built. We can look at the Amazon forest and campaign about what should not be happening there, but what about our own backyards? There is a question for the Government —my Government or any Government—about growth: what kind of growth do we want? No one is answering that question. Do we want sustainable growth? What is growth about? What are we growing? Are we growing pollution in our rivers? Are we growing roads that go through ancient woodlands? Yes, that is growth, but is it the growth we want? Do we not want to see growth in well-paid adult social care or renewable technology? Do we not want to see growth in rewilding or sustainable farming? Those are the areas where I want to see economic growth. I do not want to see growth that comes at the cost of my daughter and her generation’s future. That is the kind of decision that we in this country and this Government have to make.

  Choices need to be made here. Many of my constituents cannot afford to fly. Everyone wants to see their constituents benefit from the economy, and if we go down that path of expansion, we will be heading in the wrong direction. There will be many Members on both the Government and the Opposition Benches who do not want to see that. I believe that expanding Heathrow is incompatible with having a genuine approach to biodiversity and climate. The Climate Change Committee has already stated, before we even get to the seventh carbon budget, that this should not happen. We will need to have a very hard, honest conversation about that. I do not think it should happen.

  Full debate: Climate and Nature Bill