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We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Mike Martin

• 17 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  There are so many places where the Government have spent it. Having claimed this £22 billion black hole, they promptly agreed a £10 billion pay rise for their trade union backers. Train drivers on more than £60,000 a year are getting £10,000 pay rises while in talks about a four-day week. Those train drivers are not available for the holiday season, because they are so awash with that backdated pay increase that nobody wants to do any overtime. There are so many other areas. We have GB Energy to invest in renewable energy. I was the Energy Minister until April, and there was no shortage of investment available for renewables in this country. Before anyone points to last year’s failure to get offshore wind, that was because of the price window that we imposed. We did not want to overpay for it. There was no shortage of appetite, as was shown this year. One reason why we moved to an annual programme was precisely to ensure that we did not overpay, but could bring on all the renewables we wanted. There are so many areas where the Government could instead not spend the money that they have chosen to spend.

  Full debate: National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill

• 2 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  I would like to finish on a serious topic: the defence of His Majesty’s realm. It has been said so much that it fades into the background, but the world that we live in today is more unpredictable and dangerous than it has been for the last 80 years. Of course, there are the geopolitics that we understand—a relative decline in western power, and previously middling powers jockeying for space and seeking to rewrite the international order; I do not need to name countries for hon. Members to know who I am talking about—but overlaid across it are a number of global trends, including climate change, demography, migration and technology regulation. As geopolitics pull us apart, all those challenges require that we work together. It is quite a difficult needle to thread.

  Full debate: Technology in Public Services

• 04 Jan 2024: Tweet

  Excellent point, but you can decarbonise the rest of your economy https://twitter.com/dissident_the/status/1742923021411914025 [Source]

• 04 Jan 2024: Tweet

  Second addition: the effects of climate change are starting to accelerate (hottest year on records, lots of storms etc). And so we will start to see lots more migration from places like the Sahel as their ecosystems collapse. A couple of years ago, I thought this would kick… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1742916876517384210

• 15 Apr 2023: Tweet

  @SebastianEPayne @TomTugendhat @JamesKanag It’s not only that people (the general public) don’t know who is accountable for what, but that complimentary powers are held at different levels (parking - borough; buses - county) so if you are trying to solve big problems (climate change) it’s next to impossible. [Source]

• 05 Aug 2022: Tweet

  Parish, Borough/district, county … with different stuff held at different levels. Bonkers. How are you meant to sort out climate change if parking is held at Parish level and buses are held at county level? [Source]

• 16 Feb 2022: Tweet

  So what's the strategic play here? Well, go back to my thread on climate change in the Sahel leading to a lot of conflict and a lot of migration over the next 30 years. https://twitter.com/ThreshedThought/status/1479354597038866433?s=20&t=1iWnhmxwuZddAibSKl3nag [Source]

• 08 Feb 2022: Tweet

  Yes they are but so is uncontrolled climate change so a balance has to be struck https://twitter.com/GeordieFinch99/status/1491055230926331909 [Source]

• 07 Jan 2022: Tweet

  But Climate Change is already causing/exacerbating conflicts, and this will get much much worse, in just a few short years (say twenty or thirty). What's the plan? [Source]

• 07 Jan 2022: Tweet

  I have to say - I don't see the wholescale policy effort required for a crisis of this magnitude. I mean finally we are slowly getting our act together on net zero, decarbonisation etc. [Source]

• 07 Jan 2022: Tweet

  Partly this is because of the aforementioned stuff - being poor with a rubbish government makes it hard to adapt to the tidal wave of changes that climate change brings [Source]

• 07 Jan 2022: Tweet

  Now - EVERY SINGLE one of the Sahel countries - from west to east - is engaged in some sort of conflict. And every single one of them is being exacerbated by desertification, water use, land use, agricultural collapse, flash flooding: Basically the effects of Climate Change [Source]

• 07 Jan 2022: Tweet

  There is an absolute disaster waiting to happen over the next twenty years. A thread on climate change and conflict. [Source]

• 07 Aug 2021: Tweet

  What you really want is a beneficent, educated, person of vision to lead Helmand, and try to solve some of the problems between the tribes, some of the land issues, and the coming steam train that is climate change and desertification. [Source]

• 15 Jul 2021: Tweet

  Climate change picking up then I see https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1415794020069089285 [Source]

• 27 Oct 2017: Tweet

  This while most of MENA is dramatically reshaped by climate change, resulting in huge migration flows [Source]