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• 17 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: Absolutely honoured to announce the launch of the new @ParlNetwork Global Climate Finance Chapter at @COP29_AZ @IPUparliam… [Source]

• 16 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Absolutely honoured to announce the launch of the new @ParlNetwork Global Climate Finance Chapter at @COP29_AZ @IPUparliament! My very warmest congratulations to the newly elected global chapter committee! https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1857764080817181047/photo/1 [Source]

• 14 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Such a pleasure to speak at Footsteps Eco Festival with Birmingham Faith Climate Action Partnership & friends. A message of faith hugely welcome for #COP29. https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1857079125753655658/photo/1 [Source]

• 26 Oct 2024: Tweet

  @WorldBank 9/ It’s time to think big, unite, and act with urgency—just as we did in 1944. We have to now conquer those trying to divide us one from another & aim for a new era of cooperation that can tackle poverty, debt, conflict, and climate change head-on. [Source]

• 26 Oct 2024: Tweet

  5/ As if that weren’t enough, we’re also facing slower global growth, fractured trade, mounting public debt, escalating conflicts, and a climate crisis that’s reaching a breaking point. ???? https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1850201313075659230/photo/1 [Source]

• 19 Oct 2024: Tweet

  As I head to Washington for #worldbank #imf #annualmeetings to chair @ParlNetwork #GPF2024 I’m sharing one of most sobering podcasts yet As we mark the 80th anniversary of the #BrettonWoods institutions, we’re well off track to hit the SDG’s & Paris climate targets. It is truly… https://x.com/i/web/status/1847549898121420927 https://twitter.com/worldbank/status/1847070893303840982 [Source]

• 19 Oct 2024: Tweet

  As I head to Washington for #worldbank #imf #annualmeetings to chair @ParlNetwork #GPF2024 I’m sharing one of most sobering podcasts yet As we mark the 80th anniversary of the #BrettonWoods institutions, we’re well off track to hit the SDG’s & Paris climate targets. It is truly… https://x.com/i/web/status/1847545097937650025 https://twitter.com/worldbank/status/1847070893303840982 [Source]

• 25 Sep 2024: Tweet

  RT @WBG_IDA: "We can't end poverty and we can't hit the targets of the Paris Climate Change Agreement without a strong @WBG_IDA." UK MP @… [Source]

• 22 Sep 2024: Tweet

  RT @serauk: at 17.30 This panel will discuss how a Labour Government can tax the companies causing climate change - not the poorest suffer… [Source]

• 30 Jul 2024: Tweet

  ???? With huge thanks to colleagues across @HouseofCommons for support & encouragement, I’m standing for re-election as Chair of @CommonsBTC ????️ Driving through on the work we started in the Parliament ⬇️ ???? Majoring on mission driven growth, industrial policy to decarbonise &… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1818282427611001339 https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1818282427611001339/video/1

• 25 Jun 2024: Tweet

  RT @WBG_IDA: "We can't end poverty and we can't hit the targets of the Paris Climate Change Agreement without a strong @WBG_IDA." UK MP @… [Source]

• 21 May 2024: Tweet

  RT @CommonsBTC: Tomorrow, 10am ???? We'll discuss industrial policy for the net zero transition with experts and representatives of businesse… [Source]

• 14 Apr 2024: Tweet

  @KGeorgieva @David_McNair @CarnegieEndow @WorldBank 5/. But centre-stage in our discussions this week will be the biggest, toughest question: how do we radically step up the speed & scale of mobilising resources we need to slay the 7 giants blocking the path to achieving the SDG’s and Paris Climate Targets: want, hunger, disease,… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1779313499723747734 https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1779313499723747734/photo/1

• 03 Apr 2024: Tweet

  RT @WBG_IDA: "We can't end poverty and we can't hit the targets of the Paris Climate Change Agreement without a strong @WBG_IDA." UK MP @… [Source]

• 26 Mar 2024: Tweet

  RT @WBG_IDA: "We can't end poverty and we can't hit the targets of the Paris Climate Change Agreement without a strong @WBG_IDA." UK MP @… [Source]

• 20 Mar 2024: Tweet

  RT @lea_forest_aet: Our Year 6 pupils wrote their own speeches about climate change as a knowledge review for their most recent #geography… [Source]

• 04 Mar 2024: Tweet

  Got a great energy idea for our community? @Centricaplc #EnergyForTomorrow are offering grants of up to £100k to support sustainable energy ideas in the Midlands. More here: https://www.centrica.com/sustainability/energy-for-tomorrow/ https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1764653599622054336/photo/1 [Source]

• 29 Jan 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The question that follows on from size is about standards. There were controversial topics that we took evidence on last week, and we will capture what we learned in the report that we publish. There were questions about environmental and climate impacts; there are general provisions about those in the treaty, but they are not enforceable and there is not much mention of net zero. If we think about the treaty as something that is fairly marginal for trade today—it represents about a 0.09% GDP uplift over nine years—but is geopolitically important, we need to think about how it becomes a load-bearing structure for more of our ambitions in the world, such as the race to net zero. Maybe when the Minister is winding up he could say a bit more about how we can freight this treaty with some of our other national interests.

  Full debate: Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]

• 11 Jan 2024: Tweet

  RT @BrumLabour: Birmingham has an ambitious plan to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030 and now we have backed the Climate and Ecology… [Source]

• 15 Dec 2023: Tweet

  Grateful to share the Save the Children Essay Collection Launch! The Future is Now: Global Perspectives of Tackling Climate Change and Inequality ???? https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/content/dam/gb/reports/the_future_is_now_generation_hope_essay_collection.pdf https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1735688711956726129/photo/1 [Source]

• 02 Dec 2023: Tweet

  @WorldBank 6/. These are vital steps forward. But! Still no escalating the truth that climate finance still HAS to multiply many times older. And that’s why richer nations like the UK must be bolder & more creative building bigger, stronger multilateral institutions for the future. // [Source]

• 02 Dec 2023: Tweet

  1/. Our global network of 2,000 @Parlnet MP’s help lead the call for climate finance - so I applaud @worldbank progress at #COP28  ✅ #Loss&Damage Fund ✅ Carbon credit boost of up to $2.5 billion ✅ Wider Climate Resilient Debt Clauses ✅ $9 billion boost to climate lending https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1730884634257301663/video/1 [Source]

• 02 Dec 2023: Tweet

  RT @DavidLammy: Excellent to be at #COP28 with @Keir_Starmer and @Ed_Miliband. The @Conservatives have damaged Britain’s reputation on th… [Source]

• 14 Oct 2023: Tweet

  RT @WorldBank: At #WBmeetings, @MarkJCarney highlights the importance of policies to get capital flowing for a just transition and the need… [Source]

• 09 Oct 2023: Tweet

  RT @UnitedAMH: Packed room for our breakfast conversation on malnutrition, hunger, and climate change. Great discussion on partnerships, th… [Source]

• 13 Sep 2023: Tweet

  If we’re to mobilise the climate finance the world needs, we need to TRIPLE the lending from our multilateral development banks That’s why we need a BIGGER @worldbank - and Britain should be leading the charge My question to @RishiSunak https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1701947112294891685/video/1 [Source]

• 24 Jul 2023: Tweet

  RT @David_McNair: 1⃣ A GROWING REALIZATION More and more of the world’s leading finance experts have recognised that climate change demand… [Source]

• 13 Jul 2023: Tweet

  RT @KGeorgieva: The roadmap to @COP28_UAE is now out - high ambition for climate finance, clear commitment to the 1.5 degree target, fair r… [Source]

• 11 Jul 2023: Tweet

  As welcome as this is, this is a HUGE missed opportunity for @worldbank. Transforming green energy systems needs both money AND domestic regulatory reform. And that needs Parliamentarians sharing best practice and passing laws. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2023/07/10/ceos-and-chairs-to-join-private-sector-investment-lab [Source]

• 02 Jul 2023: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: Climate change is triggering drought and poverty That’s why @WorldBank projects delivering water & green power are vital… [Source]

• 28 Jun 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish proposals for increasing the on-lending of UK Special Drawing Rights via the IMF, for transferring the capital returned to the UK by the European Investment Bank to the World Bank, and for increasing the UK’s support for the African Development Bank, for the purpose of reducing debt burdens and the cost of capital and contributing to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

  If anything, this Bill is overdue. Eight years ago, the world came together to agree an ambitious plan to spread freedom, security and justice to every corner of the planet. The sustainable development goals agreed in New York in September 2015 offered hope, progress and a better life to billions of people. Months later, we came together again, not in New York but in Paris, to agree the climate change agreement that would help us guarantee that there would be a planet left on which to make those goals a reality.

  However, the truth is that such ambitions are in deep trouble. There are just 10,000 days to go before the Paris climate agreement deadline. A perfect storm is now threatening the world’s potential to deliver on the goals that we agreed just eight years ago. In fact, seven giants now stand in the way of progress: want, hunger, disease, lost learning, conflict, debt and climate change. They are a cascading, connected set of challenges with lethal force.

  Looming deadly over all of that are the changes in our climate and the chaos of extreme weather. Across half the world and most of Africa, the seasons are simply no longer predictable. The sun which once brought life now brings death because it burns so ferociously. The rains, when they fall, fall with such force that life-giving water floods and destroys the land it once nourished. Against that murderous maelstrom, low and middle-income countries need to mobilise some $6 trillion between now and 2030 to hit their Paris climate targets.

  Poor countries did not cause climate change, but the world’s poorest are somehow expected to pick up the pieces. We cannot go on like this and, as President Macron said in Paris last week, we must not go on like this. If the world fails to act—if we fail to act—all of us may fall prey to those who preach that the rules-based order is not fit for purpose. New institutions outside the World Bank, the IMF, and perhaps even the United Nations, will come forward beyond our influence, so we must change.

  Full debate: Global Climate and Development Finance

• 28 Jun 2023: Tweet

  Climate change is triggering drought and poverty That’s why @WorldBank projects delivering water & green power are vital for freedom & security of millions. That’s why we need a bigger World Bank & that’s why my ‘Bridgetown Bill’ calls on the UK Government to lead the argument! https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1674013475763363841/video/1 [Source]

• 23 Jun 2023: Tweet

  1/. So #RishiSunak chose to hobnob with billionaires rather than help fix poverty & climate change This is an abdication of leadership. That's why I'm moving my 'Bridgetown Bill' in the House of Commons next Wednesday to force ministers to step up and lead global action https://twitter.com/romilly_bond/status/1672207336172146689 [Source]

• 16 Jun 2023: Tweet

  Hodge Hill’s Generation Earthshot Live Final is on Monday @millenniumpoint What ideas to tackle climate change will our Generation Earthshot come up with? We had a sneak peak at the plans in March. We were impressed then; we’re ready to be BLOWN AWAY by their final showcases https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1669703930815627273/photo/1 [Source]

• 28 Apr 2023: Tweet

  RT @PreetKGillMP: Thank you for a brilliant discussion on the importance and urgency of International development and climate finance reform [Source]

• 20 Apr 2023: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: 4/. We’re NOWHERE near the level of climate finance we need. Richer countries want to squeeze more from existing balan… [Source]

• 17 Apr 2023: Tweet

  4/. We’re NOWHERE near the level of climate finance we need. Richer countries want to squeeze more from existing balance sheets. That’s the right place to start. But it’s not enough. DRC, speaking for African nations put it: “There is currently an enormous chasm …. [Source]

• 12 Apr 2023: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: East Birmingham is leading the way towards Net Zero. It was great to check the world leading green technology in the new… [Source]

• 12 Apr 2023: Tweet

  East Birmingham is leading the way towards Net Zero. It was great to check the world leading green technology in the new homes being built on Gressel Lane with @Ms_SThompson https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1646168845365780482/video/1 [Source]

• 11 Apr 2023: Tweet

  RT @SenRosaGalvez: With ⁦@liambyrnemp⁩ chair of the Parliamentary Network World Bank and IMF editor of Just Transitions great reading https… [Source]

• 11 Apr 2023: Tweet

  RT @IMFSpokesperson: Great discussion today around debt, climate change & how to improve prospects for our members with MP’s from around th… [Source]

• 11 Apr 2023: Tweet

  RT @David_McNair: To meet the challenges of climate change, inequality, and poverty, the @WorldBank must become the “World’s Bank”.   I end… [Source]

• 22 Mar 2023: Tweet

  16 primary schools across Hodge Hill are creating solutions to the climate change challenge as part of a local version of Prince William’s Earthshot Prize. Local businesses have pledged thousands to enable the best ideas to be turned into reality. https://www.liambyrnemp.co.uk/post/hodge-hill-schools-gear-up-for-prince-william-s-earthshot-prize [Source]

• 13 Mar 2023: Tweet

  10/. But we HAVE to preserve the space to work on global public goods, like climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, financial stability - and the crises of food, fragility and finance in the Global South // [Source]

• 27 Feb 2023: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: In countries like Kenya, you can see how the climate crisis is wrecking children’s education That’s why we need a new @Wo… [Source]

• 27 Feb 2023: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: In #Kenya you see just how climate change -> hunger -> kids losing education It’s why the new @worldbank president MUST r… [Source]

• 27 Feb 2023: Tweet

  In countries like Kenya, you can see how the climate crisis is wrecking children’s education That’s why we need a new @WorldBank mission that puts the battle against climate change centre stage My report from the field with @worldvision @BritainLeads @parlnetwork https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1630182456404877313/video/1 [Source]

• 27 Feb 2023: Tweet

  In #Kenya you see just how climate change -> hunger -> kids losing education It’s why the new @worldbank president MUST renew its mission & put tackling climate change centre stage But it’s also why richer nations MUST step up to build a bigger Bank for bigger problems https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1630142453914169344/video/1 [Source]

• 17 Feb 2023: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: Here @WorldBankKenya I thanked @DavidMalpassWBG We now need a new president. We won’t fix climate change without picking… [Source]

• 17 Feb 2023: Tweet

  RT @GideonKeter: l was privileged to engage Hon @liambyrnemp, the President of Parlnet on a tour to Kenya We won’t fix climate change wit… [Source]

• 16 Feb 2023: Tweet

  Here @WorldBankKenya I thanked @DavidMalpassWBG We now need a new president. We won’t fix climate change without picking someone determined to drive the boldest reform plan for decades - reforming the Bank’s mission, model and money to meet the new challenges of today. https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1626240750408069120/video/1 [Source]

• 17 Jan 2023: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: We need a concerted global effort to turn ‘the billions into trillions’ in climate finance to tackle climate change. I l… [Source]

• 16 Jan 2023: Tweet

  We need a concerted global effort to turn ‘the billions into trillions’ in climate finance to tackle climate change. I laid out the @ParlNetwork roadmap at the PAM-GCC Forum in #Marrakesh You can see this below ???? @IMFNews @WorldBank #ClimateFinance #ClimateChange https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1614992625177890816/video/1 [Source]

• 07 Dec 2022: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: We need a concerted global effort to turn ‘the billions into trillions’ for climate finance. As chair of @ParlNetwork I wa… [Source]

• 07 Dec 2022: Tweet

  We need a concerted global effort to turn ‘the billions into trillions’ for climate finance. As chair of @ParlNetwork I was honoured to set out a roadmap for doing just that at PAM-GCC Forum in #Marrakesh today @WorldBank @IMFNews https://twitter.com/Pam_Int/status/1600534767207739392 [Source]

• 09 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Here's Emanuele Massetti discussing the role that @IMFNews plays in climate finance around the world. #CoP27  #ClimateFinance #ClimateCrisis https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1590361386932396034/video/1 [Source]

• 09 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Here's @Hallegate speaking at our #annualmeetings last month about the importance of climate finance. It's clear: the countries that are the most in need for climate financing, are the ones that are struggling to access it. #COP27 #WorldBank #IMF https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1590359729704177664/video/1 [Source]

• 09 Nov 2022: Tweet

  To mark #COP27 climate finance day here’s three key questions we as parliamentarians should be asking… @DavidMalpassWBG @KGeorgieva https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1590358693551357953/photo/1 [Source]

• 09 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Here are two graphs based on data from the @worldbank’s Climate Change Disclosure Report’s: #ClimateChange https://t.co/UsMsWxPJwf [Source]

• 09 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Today is climate finance day at #COP27 At the @ParlNetwork, we have shared some key resources to help parliamentarians contribute to the debate. You can see them here ???? #IMF #WorldBank #ClimateFinance [Source]

• 09 Nov 2022: Tweet

  RT @ParlNetwork: Today is #climatefinance day at #COP27 Here’s our chair @LiamByrneMP with what every Parliamentarian should know about h… [Source]

• 08 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Ahead of #COP27 #FinanceDay here’s a superb intro to the @WorldBank #CCDR’s from @hallegatte ???? https://t.co/jR1Kra1OY5 [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

  Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 16 Oct 2022: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: Day 2 #AnnualMeetings Big focus on Climate Finance The new @worldbank climate disclosure reports will tell us what's nee… [Source]

• 15 Oct 2022: Tweet

  RT @CllrMajid: Really enjoyed speaking on the panel for The West Midlands Green New Deal: Leading the Race to Net Zero & Resource Efficienc… [Source]

• 15 Oct 2022: Tweet

  RT @bhamenergy: Our fringe event: The West Midlands Green New Deal: Leading the Race to Net Zero & Resource Efficiency by 2050 is underway… [Source]

• 13 Oct 2022: Tweet

  Here's the link to our superb @ParlNetwork session on #ClimateFinance at @IMFNews @WorldBank #AnnualMeetings Strong support for a new @ParlNetwork group to work with @WorldBank & @IMFNews to turn billions in Climate Finance into the trillions now needed https://www.facebook.com/parlnet/videos/857616675616748/ [Source]

• 13 Oct 2022: Tweet

  Glad to be able share our @ParlNetwork book on #JustTransitions here in Berlin in Green New Deal debate! A brilliant collection of thinkers on the path to #NetZero @DPZ_Berlin #PGS22 Here's the link: Just Transitions: A Roadmap to the Century Ahead https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KM4DWRN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_2H4R35RK4B2KK7ZJ8N1S https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1580582416183615488/photo/1 [Source]

• 12 Oct 2022: Tweet

  RT @ShaziaZRafi: @liambyrnemp on launching an inter-parliamentary group on climate finance. @AirQualityAsia supports and looks forward to j… [Source]

• 12 Oct 2022: Tweet

  Day 2 #AnnualMeetings Big focus on Climate Finance The new @worldbank climate disclosure reports will tell us what's needed where The @IMF RST will soon supply a crucial catalyst. Barbados deal ✅ But the gap is still huge. @ParlNetwork MP's are CRUCIAL in mobilising action https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1580197985761513472/video/1 [Source]

• 11 Oct 2022: Tweet

  The Critical Need For Climate Finance Join us at 9AM EST / 2PM GMT for our global event live from @WorldBank @IMFNews @ParlNetwork #AnnualMeetings in #WashingtonDC Link: https://www.parlnet.org/events/global-parliamentary-forum-innovative-solutions-for-turbulent-times/ https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1579796738566938626/photo/1 [Source]

• 04 Oct 2022: Tweet

  RT @KGeorgieva: The good news is we can unlock #ClimateFinance through three immediate priorities: strong policies, innovative thinking, an… [Source]

• 04 Aug 2022: Tweet

  RT @westmidsforum: We're excited for our next event ???? LEADING THE RACE TO NET ZERO: Making Our Green Future with @margot_james_ @cllrjimobo… [Source]

• 19 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @Haggis_UK: Ed Miliband - "We should be all in on tackling this climate emergency... but we are getting climate illiteracy from the Tory… [Source]

• 22 Jun 2022: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: 2/. The combination of economic crisis, conflict, and climate change has now combined to plunge nearly 200 million people… [Source]

• 22 Jun 2022: Tweet

  2/. The combination of economic crisis, conflict, and climate change has now combined to plunge nearly 200 million people into a food crisis - that’s up 80% on just a few years ago https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1539587283401285635/photo/1 [Source]

• 8 Jun 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  Secondly, as chair of the East Birmingham Inclusive Growth Taskforce, I can say that East Birmingham is a city the size of Derby, that it is the land between the two high-speed stations, but that it is also the capital of Britain’s unemployment. The potential is enormous, because of the new jobs that will be created by High Speed 2, but we have to make sure that we are not the oasis of inequality in between that wealth. That is why Bridgid Jones, the Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council, has today written to Andy Street, the Mayor of the West Midlands, to ask that we make East Birmingham the key focus of the west midlands trailblazer devolution deal. We have a number of asks. We want to see: multi-year whole place public funding—pooling budgets between the Department for Work and Pensions and others; a levelling-up zone that would give us tax increment financing, potentially for a new urban development corporation; net zero powers; support for early intervention and preventive work, particularly in health; an enhanced transport package that would allow us to see our metro built through East Birmingham; a lot more funding for schools and for skills; tailored employment support; and greater housing powers.

  Full debate: Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

• 22 Apr 2022: Tweet

  RT @BrumLabour: Only Labour has a plan to tackle the climate emergency in Birmingham. ???? This #EarthDay take a look at just some of what we… [Source]

• 21 Apr 2022: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: If we're to cut carbon AND cut bills AND boost jobs we've got to decarbonise heat. So: big thanks to @WorcesterBosch for… [Source]

• 20 Apr 2022: Tweet

  If we're to cut carbon AND cut bills AND boost jobs we've got to decarbonise heat. So: big thanks to @WorcesterBosch for their advice on the moves we need to make to ensure East Birmingham leads UK'S net zero revolution https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1516741857778319363/video/1 [Source]

• 05 Apr 2022: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: If we're to hit net zero carbon, create jobs and end fuel poverty we're going to need to retrofit hundreds of thousands of… [Source]

• 05 Apr 2022: Tweet

  If we're to hit net zero carbon, create jobs and end fuel poverty we're going to need to retrofit hundreds of thousands of homes - that's why the work of @GreenSqAccord is so crucial ???? https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1511340575219458055/video/1 [Source]

• 31 Mar 2022: Tweet

  RT @westmidsforum: . @BeverleyNielsen advocates for the West Midlands to become A World Capital of Renewable Net Zero Energy in her essay f… [Source]

• 15 Mar 2022: Tweet

  RT @liambyrnemp: Europe now need a rapid plan to diversify their gas supplies, dial up investment in green energy and some, like Germany, m… [Source]

• 14 Mar 2022: Tweet

  Europe now need a rapid plan to diversify their gas supplies, dial up investment in green energy and some, like Germany, may need to revisit the timetable to phase out nuclear power. (24/28) [Source]

• 02 Feb 2022: Tweet

  RT @brigidjones: Big day tomorrow! The UK's Climate Change Committee is in Birmingham to see how we're getting to #NetZero [Source]

• 21 Dec 2021: Tweet

  Here's Head of Climate Finance and Chief Investment Officer at @IFC_org Peter Cashion's keynote at @ParlNetwork's #GPF2021. A green recovery is a cost-effective way to transition to a low-carbon future as it can deliver economic growth and jobs quickly. https://x.com/liambyrnemp/status/1473364454305841157/video/1 [Source]

• 8 Jun 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  My final point is simply this. The Chair of the International Development Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion), helpfully set out the extraordinary range of cuts that are now being confronted. As chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, I asked the IMF this afternoon for an update on the sheer scale of investment that is needed to get the global community back on its feet. Low-income countries will now need $200 billion extra to step up their covid response, followed by $250 billion extra in accelerated investment as we try to move from the pandemic to the Paris agreement. We are now going to—

  Full debate: 0.7% Official Development Assistance Target

• 07 Jun 2021: Vote

  Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill — New Clause 1 - Human Rights Abuses - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 26 May 2021: Vote

  Environment Bill — New Clause 24 - Prohibition on burning of peat in upland areas - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 3 Mar 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  I am grateful for the help in the short term that will make a difference, but the truth is that, over the medium term, we saw today £66 billion-worth of tax rises—tax rises that will also fall on teachers, nurses and police officers for the years to come. I think that is the biggest tax rise that we have ever seen in Budget history, and it is so high because the growth rate for this country is coming further and further down. That is why what we needed from the Chancellor today was a meaningful strategy to go from the pandemic to the Paris agreement—a plan to reindustrialise our country and create new green manufacturing jobs, avoiding the perils that the International Monetary Fund is warning about of a K-shaped recovery where the rich go in one direction and the poor go in another.

  Full debate: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

• 13 Jan 2021: Vote

  Financial Services Bill — Schedule 2 - Prudential regulation of FCA investment firms - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 16 Nov 2020: Vote

  Pension Schemes Bill [Lords] — Clause 124 - Climate change risk - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 12 Oct 2020: Vote

  Agriculture Bill — After Clause 42 - Contribution of agriculture and associated land use to climate change targets - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 29 Sep 2020: Vote

  United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — New Clause 6 - Economic development: climate and nature emergency impact statement - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 8 Oct 2019: Parliamentary Speech

  I will be extremely brief, Mr Gray. Labour Members are proud of the Climate Change Act 2008, but we are even prouder of the green new deal that we passed at the Labour party conference, which takes forward the principles of decarbonisation, jobs and justice. That is why we held a citizens’ assembly in Birmingham within 24 hours of Parliament declaring a climate emergency. Several ideas emerged from that, which I will touch on.

  Secondly, we need to decarbonise our transport system. We cannot do that unless we connect transport together. That is why we need powers over bus and rail franchising. Crucially, we need to transform the number of electric vehicle charging points. There are more EV charging points in Westminster than in the whole of the west midlands; that is not acceptable. We need to decarbonise our housing stock, which means we need devolved control of the £175 million of ecofunding that is our entitlement. We need to start building homes to A plus standards.

  Full debate: Government Plan for Net Zero Emissions

• 3 Oct 2019: Parliamentary Speech

  The speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham and Rainham (Jon Cruddas) was important in setting the wider stage and the bigger story, because the new technology required a revolution in law and regulation. Over the course of the 19th century there was not one factory Act but 22 different factory Acts and Bills, and over this century there will no doubt be just as many different attempts to reform, revise, regulate, legalise and make lawful or unlawful different aspects of the technology that we are debating here today. So my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham and Rainham was right to say that what is needed from the Government is a plan for a just transition. We now understand what “just transition” means when it comes to climate change, but we need a plan for technology just as much, just as we need a plan for just transition given the new trade conflicts that are now ensuing. The rise of temperature, robots and conflicts will define our economy over the next 20 or 30 years, so we need not only just transition but just transitions, and at the moment we have nothing from the Government to tell us how that journey will be steered over the years to come.

  Full debate: Internet of Things: Regulation

• 10 Jul 2019: Parliamentary Speech

  However, that is not all I treasure; I also treasure tangible action to decarbonise our economy and our region. I want the west midlands to lead the first zero carbon revolution. Back in 1712, when the Newcomen engine was demonstrated up at Dudley castle, we sparked the carbon revolution the first time around. We need a radical plan that allows us to move trucks off the road and on to rail. Only with the capacity that comes with HS2 can we reopen 36 new freight lines that can take a million lorries off the road each year. We cannot de-clog the M6, the M5 or the M42 unless we get that freight off the road. It is impossible to see how we can drive forward the decarbonisation of a sector that contributes 40% of our carbon emissions each year if we do not drive ahead with HS2.

  I share the right hon. Gentleman’s aspirations, but for Scotland. To meet the UK-wide net zero carbon targets we have set for 2050, we need to make sure that these new rail lines work for the entire country. Does he agree that we need to review HS2, not only on its business case, but on making sure that it works for the entire United Kingdom and connects the powerhouses in the midlands with the true northern powerhouse, which is of course Scotland?

  Full debate: High Speed 2

• 1 May 2019: Parliamentary Speech

  From our region, we are very proud of our role in this nation’s industrial revolution, but we are conscious too that, as the region that sparked the carbon revolution, we have a moral responsibility now to lead the zero-carbon revolution. That task would be an awful lot easier if the Government could provide to our region four basic ideas—four basic bits of support. First, on energy, we produce just 0.3% of the country’s renewable energy. It is pretty difficult to install onshore wind in a place as dense as the west midlands, but we could absolutely roll out solar. It would be much easier if the Government reintroduced the feed-in tariffs that they so unwisely eliminated just a few years ago.

  Thirdly, on homes, we could decarbonise our housing stock much faster and lift 300,000 people out of energy poverty if we had control of eco-funding at a regional level. Finally, when it comes to replanting our forests, we should be insisting that our airports become carbon-neutral and ask them to pay an endowment to help us replant the Arden Forest and let it reconnect with the national forest planted just north of Lichfield. These are all things that we can do. We want to lead. We need a Government who help us.

  Full debate: Environment and Climate Change

• 23 Oct 2018: Parliamentary Speech

  We have to recognise that the technology companies that now pervade everyday life will need a very different kind of regulation in the years to come. I was delighted to meet representatives of the Centre for Humane Technology, from the United States, earlier this afternoon. They had a very good analogy. They were looking at various tech scandals around the world and made the point that sometimes, when we look at those symptoms, they are hurricanes, but the addictive technology at the centre is actually more akin to climate change. What we need to do as a legislature is figure out how to introduce a new regulatory regime that will control that climate change. As Tim Berners-Lee said,

  Full debate: Addictive Technology

• 06 Sep 2016: Vote

  Finance Bill — VAT on Installation of Energy Saving Materials - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 29 Jun 2016: Parliamentary Speech

  Finally, we need a big debate about sharing the burdens of our neighbourhood. Good neighbours do not shirk their duties, whether on climate change or common border protection. There will be countless other burdens regarding which Britain has to step up and say, “Yes. We are going to take on the obligations that come with sharing this part of the world.” The Prime Minister was right to say that we will not turn our back on Europe. We have to send a very clear signal that we will be not just good neighbours, but the best of neighbours.

  Full debate: UK Economy

• 09 May 2016: Vote

  Housing and Planning Bill — Planning obligations and affordable housing - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 14 Mar 2016: Vote

  Energy Bill [Lords] — New Clause 8 — Decarbonisation target range - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Mar 2016: Vote

  Energy Bill [Lords] — New Clause 3 — Carbon capture and storage strategy for the energy industry - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 26 Oct 2015: Vote

  Finance Bill (Ways and Means) (Payment of Corporation Tax) — Chapter 5 — Supplementary provisions - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 08 Sep 2015: Vote

  Bill Presented — Devolution (London) Bill — Clause 45 — CCL: removal of exemption for electricity from renewable sources - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 10 — Direction to offer contract - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 1 — Decarbonisation - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 03 Jun 2013: Vote

  Communities and Local Government — Clause 42 — Duty not to exceed annual carbon dioxide emissions limit - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: Aye

• 19 Dec 2012: Vote

  Charities Act 2011 (Amendment) — Energy Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 17 Oct 2012: Vote

  Relationship, Drug and Alcohol Education (Curriculum) — New Clause 22 — Interpretation of the green purposes: duty to assess impact on the Climate Change Act 2008 - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 11 Jun 2012: Vote

  Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Sep 2011: Vote

  Prime Minister — Clause 42 — Domestic energy efficient regulations - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Sep 2011: Vote

  Prime Minister — New Clause 1 — Energy efficiency aim - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 2 Feb 2010: Parliamentary Speech

  My hon. Friend will know of the virtues of the scheme that was introduced in England. It can not only deliver a reduction in families’ heating bills, but have an impact on reducing the country’s carbon emissions. The requisite spending is a devolved matter in Scotland. Barnett consequentials were provided on the £20 million addition that was made to the budget of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, but the argument will of course need to be prosecuted in Scotland.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions