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Katie White's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

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

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• 12 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: This Government believes that climate security is national security. That will be our message at COP29 in Baku ???? https://… [Source]

• 23 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  I begin by paying tribute to my immediate predecessors, both of whom are still Members of this House. I thank the right hon. Member for Daventry (Stuart Andrew) for being gracious and friendly and for his commitment to our community, especially Guiseley, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel) and his fantastic team for their commitment to our community and to tackling climate change. I also pay tribute to those who came before: Greg Mulholland, Paul Truswell and the late Harold Best, who all have a continued presence in the constituency. Those esteemed gentlemen have all fought for our communities, and I am honoured to stand on their shoulders, but I say “gentlemen” for good reason: I am proud to be the first woman ever to represent Leeds North West, the place where I was born and raised, as were my parents before me. Seeing more women elected to Parliament than ever before matters. It matters to the women and girls across our communities—to Alice in Otley, Navdeeb in Adel and Chloe in Horsforth. We have not had enough female MPs in my home city, but we are making up for lost time. Leeds now boasts the first female Chancellor ever, so there is progress, friends, progress.

  In Leeds North West, our feet are always planted firmly on that bedrock, but our eyes remain on the horizon, ready to embrace the future. Our constituency is a vibrant hub of entrepreneurship and creativity, a legacy that continues to thrive today. Abraham Moon in Guiseley, a fabric company established in 1837, still supplies international fashion houses today, while EMIS—which began in the 1980s in Horsforth—now flourishes in beautiful Rawdon as the leading provider of data support to the NHS. We are home to West Yorkshire’s only airport, Leeds Bradford, and I was pleased to meet with Jet2’s chief executive officer Steve just this week to discuss how the aviation sector can innovate to decarbonise. Should Members wish to stop for a bite to eat, they should look no further than the thriving bars and restaurants of vibrant Horsforth. It is a constituency bursting with joyful community fairs and fetes, from Guiseley festival to Yeadon carnival and from Rawdon summer gala to the Arthington and Bramhope shows —that last one comes complete with a human fruit machine.

  We need things to change; the country voted for change, and it is change that propelled me into politics. My journey began with the climate crisis. We know that if we get it wrong, we face disaster—particularly for the most vulnerable among us—but if we get it right, we unlock enormous opportunities for our society. In 2003, I joined the local Leeds branch of Friends of the Earth and launched a campaign for the UK’s first climate change Bill. Everyone told me that it was impossible; that it was too ambitious and too radical. There was no way that the Treasury would ever allow a carbon budget—but, friends, they did. We turned that campaign into the fourth most supported campaign in Parliament’s history, with cross-party backing from Members across the House. The last Labour Government turned that Bill into an Act in 2008, under my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster North (Ed Miliband), whom I am honoured to be working with again. Under this Act, Britain decarbonised faster than any other rich country. This Act has now become a global benchmark adopted by other nations—and that, I say to my hon. Friends, is what global leadership looks like.

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• 17 Oct 2024: Tweet

  Never been to such a well attended breakfast meeting! The @theCCCuk is such an amazing institution that has inspired climate action across the world ???? We’re lucky to have it chaired by internationally renowned climate scientist @piersforster I’m looking forward to working… https://x.com/i/web/status/1846831093783179709 https://x.com/KatieJWhite/status/1846831093783179709/photo/1 https://twitter.com/piersforster/status/1846823007521484828 [Source]

• 12 Oct 2024: Tweet

  Co-locating @UKInfraBank UK Infrastructure Bank (a British state owned development bank with a net zero focus) and new National Wealth Fund in Leeds will be good for both institutions - as well as great for our city. [Source]

• 27 Sep 2024: Tweet

  It was a privilege to speak ⁦@NorthernPowergr⁩ “Net Zero for the North” conference - combining two passions of mine! Great talk by Chief Executive Phil Jones and a really inspiring project from Citizen Keith around voltage optimisation Oh & I got an upgrade on my role ???? https://twitter.com/KatieJWhite/status/1839650310433722742/photo/1 [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]

• 25 Sep 2024: Tweet

  Very pleased about this Labour appoints Rachel Kyte to climate envoy role axed by Sunak | Climate crisis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/25/labour-appoints-rachel-kyte-to-climate-envoy-role-axed-by-sunak [Source]