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• 26 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  14. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to demonstrate leadership on climate change. ( 901454 )

  Full debate: Leadership on Climate Change

  The world’s forests are the lungs of the earth, but we are losing them at an alarming rate. An area the size of Azerbaijan, where COP29 was hosted, is destroyed every year. Will the Foreign Secretary explain what the Government are doing to preserve the world’s forests and to support those who protect them?

  Full debate: Leadership on Climate Change

• 18 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @AnnelieseDodds: I was at #COP29 last week making the case for measures to achieve our aim of a world free from poverty on a liveable pl… [Source]

• 29 Oct 2024: Tweet

  Yesterday I shared @RESCUEorg @RESCUE_UK data on the 16 most climate-vulnerable and conflict-affected countries in the world, like Sudan, Syria & Myanmar. I was pleased to hear Development Minister @AnnelieseDodds' commitment to climate finance for adaptation in these places. https://x.com/laurakyrkesmith/status/1851148889169990084/video/1 [Source]

• 28 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  My constituents understand the urgency of addressing our national housing crisis. The statistics speak for themselves: nearly 1.3 million households are on social housing waiting lists, including 6,000 in Buckinghamshire, and young people under 30 today are less than half as likely to own a home as young adults in the 1990s. Equally, many of my constituents understand the need for investment in renewable energy, whether it is onshore wind or solar panels, to get us on track for clean, secure and more affordable power by 2030, but they and I are conscious of the tension between the need for planning reform, whether for the purpose of building houses, energy or other infrastructure, and the need to protect our natural environment. How do we navigate that tension? Let me make three points based on Aylesbury’s experience.

  There is too much to say in the time we have available tonight, but I will pull out three particularly important ways to help set up our farmers for success. First and foremost, we have to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of British farming. The environment land management schemes have been unclear, difficult to navigate and poorly tailored to different contexts—in the case of Ledburn farm, to the heavy clay land. As a result, the uptake has been low, but farmers remain in need of that support and we have to find a way to make it easier to access. Equally, farmers are forging ahead and finding ways to diversify their income, but there is much more we can do to support that—for example, by making it much easier to change the use of existing farm buildings, or to develop lower-grade agricultural land, if it creates renewable energy sources or affordable housing for farm workers.

  Full debate: Agricultural Land: Protection

• 05 Aug 2024: Tweet

  I had a very productive meeting with @bbfuk. The 31,000 small businesses in Bucks are the cornerstone of our local economy, and we talked about planning reform, net zero, employment, skills & many other topics on which we’ll work together. Thank you for the insights! https://twitter.com/laurakyrkesmith/status/1820455972843733206/photo/1 [Source]

• 28 Nov 2023: Tweet

  Congrats to @FCDOGovUK @AndrewmitchMP on the new White Paper, launched tonight. Great to see ending extreme poverty and climate change front and centre, with strong humanitarian commitments and broad thinking on unlocking financing. https://twitter.com/laurakyrkesmith/status/1729588098776854557/photo/1 [Source]

• 01 Aug 2023: Tweet

  Important insights from @RESCUEorg work to help people in fragile and conflict states adapt to climate change. Giving cash support to households in advance of floods hitting - rather than waiting until disaster strikes - means they recover better: https://www.rescue.org/uk/press-release/new-data-shows-benefit-sending-cash-ahead-climate-disasters-says-irc [Source]

• 11 Jan 2023: Tweet

  @DMiliband on how climate change is forcing people to flee their homes - and how international funding must be tailored to help them adapt, via @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/10/climate-crisis-migrants-displaced-people-extreme-weather [Source]

• 03 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Ahead of #COP27 we call on world leaders to deliver for people hit hardest by climate change, whether that's floods in Pakistan or drought and hunger in East Africa. Statement from @RESCUE_UK as follows: https://twitter.com/RESCUE_UK/status/1588127349110968321 [Source]

• 03 Nov 2021: Tweet

  The climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis; the most vulnerable must be at the heart of solutions. @RESCUE_UK and @decappeal colleagues via @guardian #COP26 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/03/those-most-vulnerable-to-the-climate-crisis-must-be-at-the-heart-of-solutions [Source]

• 14 Feb 2015: Tweet

  Joint climate change agreement from party leaders. Great news from @GreenAllianceUK - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31456161 [Source]

• 26 Jan 2015: Tweet

  Tackling climate change binds us with families many thousands of miles away - @CarolineFlintMP at @LabourCID event #LabourWorld [Source]

• 26 Jan 2015: Tweet

  .@DAlexanderMP says tackling extreme global poverty and tackling climate change indivisible #LabourWorld [Source]

• 31 Mar 2014: Tweet

  What role for climate change in foreign policy? @jreynoldsMP via @NewStatesman thinks it's an opportunity for the UK http://bit.ly/1pzy4yN [Source]