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

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• 16 Nov 2024: Tweet

  The global clean energy revolution is happening and it is unstoppable. That is what gives me optimism in the fight against the climate crisis. My reflections on week one of #COP29 ???? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/15/renewable-energy-unstoppable-ed-miliband?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other [Source]

• 15 Nov 2024: Tweet

  COP29 is a chance for Britain to show climate leadership on the global stage. This government believes that climate security is national security. Behind the scenes earlier this week ???? https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1857437146392518822/video/1 [Source]

• 13 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @mgshanks: Unashamedly this government is ambitious for our energy future - delivering good jobs, energy security and climate leadership… [Source]

• 12 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  On Tuesday 12 November at the 29th UNFCCC conference of the parties (COP29) in Baku, the Prime Minister will announce the UK’s 2035 nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris agreement. This will commit the UK to reducing economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by at least 81% by 2035, compared with 1990 levels, excluding emissions from international aviation and shipping.

  The 2035 NDC is based on advice from the independent Climate Change Committee (CCC). It is a clear progression on the UK’s previous NDC pledging to reduce emissions by at least 68% by 2030. It was informed by the outcomes of the global stocktake from COP28 and is aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. It is aligned with the level of ambition in carbon budget 6 (2033-37) on the pathway to net zero by 2050.

  The headline target will be followed by submission of the detail underpinning the NDC—known as information to facilitate clarity, transparency and understanding (ICTU)—to the United Nations framework convention on climate change ahead of the February 2025 deadline. A copy of the ICTU will be laid in the Houses of Parliament.

  The UK’s early and ambitious NDC will help restore our global climate leadership and encourage greater ambition from other countries. It is one important part of the UK’s overall contribution to global emissions reductions, alongside our international climate finance and other support.

  Globally, the world is way off track from meeting the Paris agreement temperature goal. Climate action must be accelerated drastically to reduce emissions and keep the annual average global temperature rise below 1.5°C. The ambition and delivery of the next round of NDCs, due to be submitted to the United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) by February 2025 and implemented in the 2030s, will be critical in enabling this.

  The UK’s domestic action is the first crucial step to restoring UK international leadership on climate change. The clean energy transition is also the economic opportunity of the 21st century and will support the creation of hundreds of thousands of good jobs across the UK and protect our economy from future price shocks while delivering a range of social and health benefits.

  That is why making Britain a clean energy superpower is one of the five missions of this Government—delivering clean power by 2030 and accelerating to net zero across the economy.

  Full debate: Paris Emissions Reduction Target: UK’s Nationally Determined Contribution

• 12 Nov 2024: Tweet

  What’s the link between a wind turbine blade factory in Hull, and the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan? Let me tell you???? https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1856376098520523182/video/1 [Source]

• 12 Nov 2024: Tweet

  It is in Britain’s national self interest to tackle the climate crisis. It is the only way to keep our country safe. That is why this Government is showing international leadership at COP29. https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1856244602212131061 [Source]

• 11 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  We are halfway through the critical decade for tackling climate change, but the world is off-track from limiting global warming to 1.5°C. We are facing a triple planetary crisis of climate, biodiversity loss and pollution posing critical threats to the UK’s national interests across security, resilience, health, the economy and partnerships with other countries.

  With global temperatures continuing to rise, the impacts of the climate and nature crises—storms, floods, droughts, food and water insecurity, displaced communities—will be a profound source of global disorder. To engage only with the effects of climate change, war, poverty, pandemics or irregular migration when they arrive on our doorstep is to set ourselves up to fail. This is why the UK needs to re-establish itself as a climate leader on the global stage.

  Taking on the challenge of climate change is also an incredible opportunity for jobs and growth all across the country. It will improve our health, our quality of life and our overall prosperity.

  The Government have already begun work to deliver on this opportunity, through our mission to achieve clean power by 2030 and accelerating our transition to net zero. We have lifted the de facto ban on onshore wind in England, consented significant amounts of solar, introduced legislation to switch on Great British Energy, created the UK’s first carbon capture clusters, and held the most successful renewables auction to date.

  We have put clean energy at the heart of our mission-driven Government, because we know that boosting home-grown, renewable energy is the best way to reduce our exposure to volatile fossil fuel markets, protect bill payers, and strengthen our energy independence. The UK will restore its position as a global leader on climate action, building on the power of example to encourage other nations to follow its lead, and working with international partners to support decarbonisation globally.

  COP28 in Dubai saw the first global stocktake under the Paris agreement which illustrated the scale of the challenge—by 2030, emissions need to fall by 43% versus the 2% currently projected and climate finance must increase at least fivefold, drawing on all sources.

  The UK will work with the COP29 presidency and other partners to push for progress in the following three key areas:

  Scaling up finance from all sources to accelerate global transitions . We need to agree an ambitious new collective quantified goal on climate finance for the period after 2025. The UK is committed to working with countries to design a climate finance goal that is fit for purpose and supports those most vulnerable to climate impacts, crowding in private finance while recognising the constraints on the public finances in the UK. Outside the negotiations, we need to accelerate reform of the global financial system to address the transition and resilience finance gaps and barriers that countries face.

  Scaling up ambition and action to keep 1. 5 Paris agreement goal within reach ahead of COP30 . As agreed at COP28, countries must come forward with ambitious, all-economy, 1.5°C-aligned nationally determined contributions for 2035 by next February to bridge the emissions gap. As the Prime Minister announced at the United Nations General Assembly in September, the UK will come forward with our own ambitious, 1.5-aligned NDC at COP29 and will support others to do the same. Globally, we need to accelerate the global transition in energy and other sectors and the UK will show progress on this through initiatives such as the breakthrough agenda and the global clean power alliance—a progressive alliance of developed and developing countries working together to accelerate the deployment of clean power globally and mobilise public and private finance to support clean energy. The alliance will help to bridge the financing gap with the global south and enable more countries to secure the benefits of clean, cheap power.

  Across all these areas, we must recognise the crucial, often overlooked role of high-ambition action on nature including forests in mitigating and adapting to climate change. This means aligning UNFCCC outcomes with the targets of the global biodiversity framework and joining up approaches to tackling climate, biodiversity, and pollution across NDCs, national adaptation plans and national biodiversity strategies and action plans all in the broader context of achieving the sustainable development goals. It includes protecting the ocean through the ocean and climate change dialogue and restoring forests through the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership.

  We are determined to do everything in our power to accelerate global action to reduce emissions this decade and keep within reach the 1.5°C goal in the Paris agreement.

  Full debate: COP29: Priorities

• 11 Nov 2024: Tweet

  This Government believes that climate security is national security. That will be our message at COP29 in Baku ???? https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1855961819887636509/video/1 [Source]

• 08 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @energygovuk: Ahead of #COP29, the government came together with business leaders and ambassadors to galvanise collective action in the… [Source]

• 31 Oct 2024: Tweet

  Sending sincere condolences to the Spanish people on the tragic floods. Sadly, these extreme weather events are becoming all the more common across the world. It falls on all of us to redouble our efforts to tackle the climate crisis to protect our world. [Source]

• 29 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  I want to thank everyone who has played a role in getting the Bill to this stage: the Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, my hon. Friend the Member for Rutherglen (Michael Shanks), who has done an incredible job steering the Bill through Committee; Members across the House who have scrutinised the Bill in Committee; all the parliamentary staff who have worked on the Bill; and the fantastic officials in my Department who have moved at such speed over the last four months.

  I also want to thank the witnesses who gave evidence to the Committee, all of whom were in support of establishing Great British Energy. I am sure that the House will be interested in the list. They include SSE, EDF, Energy UK, RenewableUK, Scottish Renewables, the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, Nesta, the Green Alliance, the Net Zero Technology Centre, the TUC, Prospect and the GMB. And they are not the only ones. I can inform the House that they join a growing list of supporters, including the CBI, the Aldersgate Group, Octopus Energy, E.ON, the Hydrogen Energy Association, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, the Port of Aberdeen, the University of Aberdeen and, of course, the British people themselves, who overwhelmingly backed Great British Energy at the general election. Sadly, the only people you can find to oppose Great British Energy are the faction of a sect of a once-great party sitting on the Opposition Benches.

  I am fully supportive of GB Energy, but what assurances can my right hon. Friend give to the House that it will be a just transition, that it will be adopted across Government, and that the broadest sector will buy into it?

  Full debate: Great British Energy Bill

• 26 Oct 2024: Tweet

  I’ve been in the US this week meeting energy and climate figures from around the world. Britain is back in the business of global climate leadership. Hear more about my trip ???? https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1850161851536982208/video/1 [Source]

• 17 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  This statement concerns an application for development consent made under the Planning Act 2008 by North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park Ltd for development consent for the construction and operation of a combined heat and power enabled energy generating development, with an electrical output of up to 95 megawatts, incorporating carbon capture, associated district heat and private wire networks, hydrogen production, ash treatment, and other associated developments on land at Flixborough industrial estate, Scunthorpe.

  Under section 107(1) of the Planning Act 2008, the Secretary of State must make a decision on an application within three months of the receipt of the examining authority’s report unless exercising the power under section 107(3) of the Planning Act 2008 to set a new deadline. Where a new deadline is set, the Secretary of State must make a statement to Parliament to announce it. The current statutory deadline for the decision on the North Lincolnshire green energy park application is 18 October 2024.

  Full debate: Energy Infrastructure Planning Application: North Lincolnshire

• 15 Oct 2024: Tweet

  4/ As the report says: "achieving the UK’s goal of clean power is essential to avoid a future energy crisis, as a decarbonised energy system means reducing exposure to volatile gas markets." [Source]

• 10 Oct 2024: Tweet

  RT @mgshanks: To become a clean energy superpower, we must expand our ability to store renewable energy when the sun isn’t shining or the w… [Source]

• 09 Oct 2024: Tweet

  Congratulations to @ELPinchbeck, the new Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee. Emma's expertise and leadership will be vital as we drive towards net zero - bringing new, skilled jobs and investment to communities across the UK. https://twitter.com/theCCCuk/status/1843895167369261234 [Source]

• 8 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  My hon. Friend is absolutely right about the importance of both rooftop solar and ground-mounted solar. I can tell him that, as part of Great British Energy’s plans, we want to work with local schools, local hospitals and, indeed, local leaders to have a solar panels programme, because this is a way to rapidly decarbonise and to save money off bills.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

  I congratulate my hon. Friend, but particularly the Fairwater community campus on the work it is doing. I think he highlights a very important issue. By helping to decarbonise public buildings, including schools, we help not only to cut our carbon emissions, but, crucially, to save money for those schools that they can then use for frontline services.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

  As well as our measures on onshore wind, solar and renewables, this Government have begun legislating for Great British Energy and setting out our plan for proper standards for private and social renters to take 1 million families out of fuel poverty, and on Friday we announced deals to kick-start Britain’s carbon capture industry. All of this will deliver our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower. It is right for bills, right for energy security, right for jobs and right for climate leadership.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

  The hon. Gentleman raises a very important issue that I am afraid was not solved by the last Government. We are working at pace with National Grid, and I am sure the Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, my hon. Friend the Member for Rutherglen (Michael Shanks), will be happy to talk to him further about the work we are doing.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

  My hon. Friend raises the important issue that what will define the future for North sea workers is whether there is a plan for future jobs in offshore wind, carbon capture and hydrogen. There was no plan from the previous Government; this Government are absolutely determined to ensure a just transition for those workers, using the power of Government and a proper industrial policy to make it happen.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

  Every planning application and development consent order is assessed on its merits. Importantly, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Streatham and Croydon North (Steve Reed), is polishing a land use framework, which has long been needed in this country. It will set out the balance between food security, the use of renewable energy, the restoration of nature and the role of farming. I hope that will help with some of the issues that hon. Members are facing.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 8 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  This Government believe that we can only ensure climate security for further generations in the UK if we lead globally. That was the message of the Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly with our world-leading 2030 clean power plan, no new oil and gas licences, and playing our part in reforming the global financial system. Next month I will be attending the COP29 talks in Azerbaijan to stand up for Britain’s interests.

  Full debate: Climate Change: International Work

  I will say one thing in particular to my hon. Friend. The Prime Minister said at the United Nations General Assembly that we will be unveiling our nationally determined contribution—our target for 2035—at COP29. We are doing that because the danger is that the world settles into a low-ambition equilibrium when it comes to tackling these issues. By having a 1.5º aligned target, we hope to set a good benchmark and a good example for the world.

  Full debate: Climate Change: International Work

  I take the hon. Gentleman seriously on these issues, and I undertake to write to him or to have one of the Ministers write to him. I make the general point that rewilding and nature-based solutions are an essential part of tackling the climate crisis.

  Full debate: Climate Change: International Work

• 08 Oct 2024: Tweet

  This government is in a hurry to deliver on our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower. It's how we deliver energy security, lower bills, good jobs and climate leadership. My statement in Parliament today???? https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1843651108830622017/video/1 [Source]

• 7 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  By contrast, just three months since we came to office, this Government have turned promise into reality. I can confirm to the House that we have agreed commercial terms, and £21.7 billion of funding over 25 years for five carbon capture, usage and storage projects across two clusters: HyNet in the north-west, and the East Coast Cluster in the north-east. This announcement will enable the construction of two transport and storage networks that will underpin this new industry. The highways for carbon capture and the deals we have agreed will also kick-start development of Net Zero Teesside, the world’s largest gas with CCUS plant, and—these are both in Ellesmere Port—Protos, a new CCUS energy from waste facility, and EET Hydrogen, the UK’s first large-scale blue hydrogen project, which is the cleanest in the world. They will crowd in £8 billion of private investment across the two clusters, creating 4,000 jobs in our industrial heartlands and building an initial capacity to remove over 8.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions each and every year. I pay tribute to the six new Labour MPs in Teesside and colleagues across the north-west who have been brilliant champions for those projects. This is just the start; we will have more to say in the coming months about carbon capture sites in Humberside, Scotland and elsewhere around the country.

  This investment is the right thing to do for Britain. CCUS will unlock the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors, from chemicals to cement; enable the production of low-carbon hydrogen; and, by capturing emissions from gas-fired power stations, play an important role, alongside renewables and nuclear, in delivering clean power by 2030 and beyond. That is why experts in bodies ranging from the Climate Change Committee to the International Energy Agency are clear that carbon capture is critical to our meeting our climate commitments. There are those who doubt that. To them I quote James Richardson, the acting chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, who said on Friday quite simply:

  “Reaching net zero will be virtually impossible without CCUS”,

  “account for almost 20% of global CO2 emissions today”.

  That is all part of the action of a Government who, in the last three months, have shown that we are in a hurry to deliver our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower. We have lifted the onshore wind ban, consented to record amounts of nationally significant solar, launched Great British Energy, delivered the most successful renewables auction in British history, and set out our plans to lift more than a million households out of fuel poverty. We are moving apace, both because of the urgency of the challenges that we face and because of this Government’s determination to win for Britain. Last week marked the end of one chapter in our country’s energy story and the start of a new one—a new era showing that we can decarbonise and reindustrialise, a new era of clean energy jobs and investment in our industrial heartlands, and a new era of climate leadership. I commend this statement to the House.

  Full debate: Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage

• 04 Oct 2024: Tweet

  RT @annaturley: Just brilliant that today Teesside will be at the heart of Labour’s commitment to a Net Zero future. This will be transfor… [Source]

• 04 Oct 2024: Tweet

  RT @SkyNews: Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero @Ed_Miliband says the government’s CO2 capture and storage plans mark a ‘n… [Source]

• 26 Sep 2024: Tweet

  RT @FCDOGovUK: We are ambitious at home and abroad on the climate and nature crisis. We are committed to tackling the climate crisis and m… [Source]

• 26 Sep 2024: Tweet

  Last month I was pleased to visit Brazil, hosts of #COP30 ???????? and important partners in the fight against the climate crisis. Britain is back in the business of climate leadership. https://twitter.com/energygovuk/status/1839319364052357139 [Source]

• 26 Sep 2024: Tweet

  Britain is back as a climate leader. That’s my message to our international partners at #ClimateWeekNYC Our world-leading domestic agenda is the route to energy security, lower bills and good jobs. It’s also how we protect our planet for future generations. https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1839296874706251898/photo/1 [Source]

• 25 Sep 2024: Tweet

  Rachel’s expertise will be invaluable in supporting countries on the front line of the climate crisis. We are backing up our strong action to protect the British people through energy security at home, with climate leadership on the world stage. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/25/labour-appoints-rachel-kyte-to-climate-envoy-role-axed-by-sunak?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other [Source]

• 13 Sep 2024: Tweet

  Solar power will be crucial to meeting our mission for clean power by 2030. It’s one of the cheapest, most readily-deployable energy sources we have. That’s why we’re getting on with delivering more solar. For energy security, good jobs, lower bills, and climate leadership. https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1834558711949349256/video/1 [Source]

• 12 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Immediate career support for workers. The UK and Scottish Governments will provide tailored support that will help affected workers in finding new employment—and Grangemouth will be among the first areas that the new office for clean energy jobs will work with to help deliver a just transition.

  Full debate: Grangemouth Oil Refinery: Jobs

• 5 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is normally a fair man, but what he did not mention was the risible state of renewable energy when we took power in 2010. It accounted for less than 7% of electricity, and we increased the figure to nearly 50%. We are a country that has led the world in this area. It was the Conservatives who transformed our energy system to remove coal from the system. I am sure I am just setting up the Secretary of State, which I am happy to do, but what will state ownership do? Our system is arguably one of the most effective in the whole world at delivering green capacity, and has been the most successful in cutting emissions. What will state ownership do, other than simply put the state and its complicated mechanisms into programmes that need to be speeded up, not slowed down?

  I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend. We heard the right hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart) suggest a few moments ago that things were going wonderfully under the Conservative Government, but does my right hon. Friend agree that the Climate Change Committee warned a few weeks ago that only a third of the emissions reductions that we need to achieve the 2030 target are currently backed by a credible plan? Is the reality not that we need a step change? Thank God we have a Labour Government to deliver it.

  The Secretary of State knows I share his passion and ambition to get to net zero. One big concern about GB Energy is that it will crowd out, rather than crowd in investment. Will he enlarge on how he intends to crowd in investment into green energy?

  Full debate: Great British Energy Bill

• 3 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The lifting of the onshore wind ban, this very successful allocation round 6, and the creation of Great British Energy, all signal the ramping up of our efforts to deliver clean power by 2030 and net zero, moving towards energy independence and protecting families from volatile fossil fuel prices. Going forwards, we will continue to work with investors, developers, and the supply chain to accelerate our mission to become a clean energy superpower.

  Full debate: Contracts for Difference: Allocation Round 6 Results

• 3 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The success of this round does not just offer greater energy security for the British people; it also offers the possibility of good jobs throughout Britain. But that will not happen without action by Government, because we know that too often in the past renewable energy produced in Britain has not created enough good jobs in Britain. With Great British Energy and our national wealth fund, we will invest to make sure our clean power mission produces jobs in every corner of the United Kingdom.

  This Government have been in office for less than two months. In that time, we have lifted the onshore wind ban, consented more nationally significant solar capacity in one week than the last Government did in 14 years, and now delivered the most successful renewables auction in the history of the country. And on Thursday we will debate the Second Reading of the Great British Energy Bill. This is a Government in a hurry to deliver our mission: energy security, lower bills, good jobs and tackling the climate crisis. I commend this statement to the House.

  Full debate: Contracts for Difference

• 03 Sep 2024: Tweet

  We know this is a worrying time for families facing increases in their energy bills this October. New renewable energy is the only way we can ensure energy security and protect billpayers from energy price shocks. This Government is moving at pace to back homegrown clean power [Source]

• 2 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Written correction submitted by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Ed Miliband):

  Full debate: Energy Security and Net Zero

• 21 Aug 2024: Tweet

  Britain is leading global efforts to tackle the climate crisis ???????? That’s why I’m in Brazil – an important partner in the fight against climate change, to see how we can work together on this shared challenge ???????? https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1826335121051714009/photo/1 [Source]