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

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• 31 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  However, we offer a word of caution to Ministers. These regulations put a modest compliance cost on manufacturers that sell their goods in both Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but the Government are now considering aligning the whole of the UK with net zero laws written and decided in Brussels. We would be signing up not only to the European Union emissions trading scheme, with its significantly higher carbon price—increasing our carbon price has not been ruled out by Ministers in a succession of answers to our questions—but to a whole slew of regulations that will be enforced by the European Court of Justice.

  Full debate: Draft Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Re...

• 29 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @Hrushworth: Zarah Sultana MP slams the government for wanting to expand Heathrow because of the climate emergency, but is campaigning f… [Source]

• 27 Mar 2025: Tweet

  A former Climate Change Secretary writes. https://twitter.com/edwardjdavey/status/1905226156925763730 [Source]

• 22 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @gavinantonyrice: ????NEW Reader - We Can't Afford Luxury Priorities @CitySamuel on net zero @jonathan_hinder on who runs the government @… [Source]

• 20 Mar 2025: Tweet

  Freudian slip of the week in Parliament, as Lucy Powell tells the House that “net zero will lower jobs.” [Source]

• 18 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The Government’s rush to decarbonise the grid means more hidden costs, more curtailment payments, more balancing payments, more subsidies and a higher carbon price. Will the Minister guarantee that our carbon price will remain lower than the European price for the remainder of this Parliament?

  Full debate: Electricity Grid Decarbonisation

• 18 Mar 2025: Tweet

  This is the truth. Net zero and climate unilateralism will destroy British industry, killing jobs, prosperity and our security. A sane energy policy is vital if we’re to reindustrialise and recover. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1901917402545209738/photo/1 [Source]

• 16 Mar 2025: Tweet

  When Miliband says we lead the world on climate change, this is what he means. When he says decarbonisation doesn't mean deindustrialisation, look at the numbers. When he says renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, compare our costs with those in America. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1901263207462776893/photo/1 [Source]

• 12 Mar 2025: Tweet

  All options except sacking Miliband, ending the net zero zealotry, and nationalising steel. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1899802311167221940/photo/1 [Source]

• 07 Mar 2025: Tweet

  RT @LoftusSteve: There's an important consultation by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) closing next month that could… [Source]

• 5 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The phasing out of the renewables obligation and feed-in tariffs is being used by the Government in their efforts to hoodwink the public on the true costs of their net zero policies. The National Energy System Operator’s 2030 report made several highly questionable assumptions about how the Government’s goal of decarbonising the grid will cut energy bills. One of the points made by NESO was that energy bills would fall due to the expiration of the renewables obligation and feed-in tariff contracts, but those contracts will expire regardless of the speed of decarbonisation, so it is misleading to include that as a benefit of the Government’s deeply flawed clean energy plan. We will see costs increase significantly elsewhere, thanks to Government policies.

  It is absolutely our position that the Energy Secretary is trying to move too quickly. The plan to decarbonise the grid by 2030 is deemed by many experts to be unrealistic. It is predicated on a report produced by NESO, which itself says that the plan will lead to higher bills, and on calculations based on the carbon price increasing to £147 per tonne. It would be interesting to hear from the Minister whether the Government’s policy is to ensure that Britain’s carbon price should remain lower than the European carbon price for the duration of this Parliament, because the Secretary of State has so far refused to say that.

  As long as policy races ahead of technology, costs will inevitably increase for taxpayers and consumers, and that is before we even consider the consequences of the Climate Change Committee’s seventh carbon budget. The committee has recommended a limit on the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions of 535 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, which represents an 87% reduction by 2040 compared with 1990 levels. That is an ambitious goal, but it is one that the committee’s own data shows will come at a net cost of £319 billion over the next 15 years. If we are to debate this, the Government should be honest and open about that fact.

  No Government have ever rejected a carbon budget, and the Energy Secretary has so far refused to come to the House to make a statement on the publication of that budget, so perhaps the Minister can tell us whether the Government intend to accept the carbon budget in full. The Climate Change Committee believes that we will need a sixfold increase in offshore wind power, a doubling of onshore wind power and a fivefold increase in solar panels by 2040. To accelerate the growth of renewables at such a pace would require a huge increase in public subsidy.

  There are so many questions left unanswered, and so far only silence from the Energy Secretary. That is not because the Government do not understand the scale of the challenge they have set themselves. The Energy Secretary understands it all too well, but he will not admit publicly what his ideological attachment to net zero and his net zero policies mean for us all: nothing less than a revolution in how we live our lives, and the massive expansion of public spending for a system of energy that is less reliable and more expensive in generating power. We need complete clarity, so that the mistakes of the renewables obligation are not repeated. Failure to do so will leave us poorer and exposed to risk and instability in the world.

  Full debate: Renewables Obligation Certificate Scheme

• 26 Feb 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  This debate has been held against the absurd backdrop of a Chancellor of the Exchequer writing to Government colleagues and begging regulators, desperately seeking advice on how to find economic growth, while the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is deindustrialising the economy, the Home Office is welcoming fiscally negative immigration and the Department for Business and Trade is adding more than £5 billion a year in new costs to business in a single Act of Parliament. And the Government are whacking up taxes, including through the change to business property relief, because they broke their election promises as soon as they got into office.

  Full debate: Family Businesses

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Nor will such a radical programme reverse climate change. The report says by 2040 “global warming will likely be at or above 1.5ºC even in a global highest ambition scenario”. But we are less than 1% of global emissions. [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The report recommends that the carbon price should be “sufficient to incentivise decarbonisation” and could include “a higher carbon price floor and/or linkages with the EU ETS”. This is Labour’s secret plan. It means higher costs for everyone. [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  According to the CCC, “Environmental taxes such as carbon taxes could be used to incentivise households and businesses to shift towards low-carbon technologies”. But if successful in reducing emissions, even these extra taxes would likely fail to raise enough revenue. [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The report is a Net Zero bombshell. Regardless of context - or what other countries are doing - it demands that the UK reduces emissions by 87% by 2040 compared with 1990s levels. While China builds coal-fired power stations, this means cutting 535 MtCO2e from 2038 to 2042. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1894696433585918139/photo/1 [Source]

• 26 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The Climate Change Committee has unveiled its next carbon budget. From eating less meat to pricing us out of family holidays, job-killing carbon taxes to lost agricultural land, the end of petrol cars and gas boilers too, it has everything you would expect and worse (1/n). [Source]

• 25 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Ed Miliband should be straight with the British people about what is being asked of them. Promises about Net Zero cutting energy bills by £300 are a sham. We need real scrutiny of the carbon budget framework, challenging its assumptions and deciding what will actually work. [Source]

• 25 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The CCC is monomaniacal by design, and stacked with people committed to the Net Zero religion. Their clear ideological bias means that evidence is framed in the most favourable way possible for advancing the green agenda. https://www.theccc.org.uk/about/ [Source]

• 25 Feb 2025: Tweet

  While this is “advice”, no Government has ever rejected a carbon budget since the Climate Change Act was passed. Blindly accepting accelerated targets will transform how we travel, heat our homes, grow food, and manage land. This raises a host of problems. [Source]

• 25 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Lots on today but tomorrow the Climate Change Committee will set the next carbon budget, publishing targets to reduce emissions from 2038 to 2042. These targets will dictate many aspects of everyday life for the next seventeen years. This is no way to plan energy policy (1/7). [Source]

• 24 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Labour: decarbonisation does not mean deindustrialisation. Also Labour: https://www.ft.com/content/314066f9-3aa3-4de3-ac24-ab0dd5c2f34e?shareType=nongift UK steelmakers face £150mn annual bill from carbon charges, industry warns [Source]

• 12 Feb 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The challenge of fuel poverty affects people of all ages throughout the country. Rather than just creating new benefits and schemes to address the high cost of fuel, we need to resolve the root causes of energy costs more generally. Here, the Government are taking the country in a very worrying direction. The Energy Secretary promises to decarbonise the grid by 2030, and the Business Secretary wants to ban petrol and diesel cars by the same year. Tough standards on aviation fuel are being enforced; heat pumps are expected to replace gas boilers; expensive and intermittent renewable technologies funded by huge and hidden subsidies are favoured; and oil and gas fields in the North sea are abandoned, left for the Norwegians to profit from what we choose to ignore.

  The Energy Secretary has made much of the National Energy System Operator’s report on decarbonising the grid. He says that report shows that he can do so by 2030 without increasing bills, but in fact the report does not say that—and even then, its calculations rest on a carbon price that will rise to £147 per tonne of carbon dioxide. It is no wonder that, in reply to a question I asked him last week, the Energy Secretary would not rule out having a higher carbon price in Britain than in Europe. That will be terrible for families struggling with the cost of heating their home, but it will hurt them—and indeed all of us—in other ways. As long as policy runs faster than technology and other countries do not follow our lead on climate change, decarbonisation will inevitably mean deindustrialisation. That will mean a weaker economy with lower growth, fewer jobs, and less spending power to help those who we have been discussing today—those who need support the most.

  Of course, it is not just the NESO report that shows us the future consequences of the Government’s policies. The OBR says that environmental levies will reach up to £15 billion by the end of this Parliament to pay for net zero policies. As those levies will fall heavily on consumption, they will have a particularly regressive effect, as analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Cornwall Insight has confirmed. It is therefore no wonder that Labour’s election promise to cut bills by £300 by the end of the Parliament has vanished without trace, so I challenge the Minister today to do what she has not done since polling day—repeat that promise very clearly. I suspect she will not because, unlike the Secretary of State, she knows the reality of his policies. The Government are adding complexity and contradiction to our energy system and loading extra costs on to families across the country. There is still time for Ministers to think again and put the interests of decent, hard-working people ahead of the Energy Secretary’s ideological dogma.

  Full debate: Fuel Poverty: England

• 12 Feb 2025: Tweet

  As long as Ed Miliband tries to make policy run faster than technology, and other countries do not follow Britain’s lead on climate change, decarbonisation will inevitably mean deindustrialisation. And that will leave us all poorer. My speech today. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1889658391380832599/video/1 [Source]

• 11 Feb 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  As the current Government continue down the ideological decarbonisation route, led by the Secretary of State, we will watch carefully in order to protect the families and businesses who bear the cost of unrealistic clean energy targets. Indeed, experts expect the energy price cap to rise next month. The Manchester-based— not Aberdeen-based—head of GB Energy, Juergen Maier, says it will be

  We support the regulations. We recognise their role in winding down the old schemes, but we remain vigilant about new policies that will surely make lives harder and more expensive because of the unattainable and self-harming decarbonisation goals that the Government are pursuing.

  Full debate: Draft Energy Bill Relief Scheme and Energy Bills Discount Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2024

• 4 Feb 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The Government policy to decarbonise the grid by 2030 rests on the National Energy System Operator’s assumption of a £147 per tonne carbon price, but manufacturers are lining up to tell the Energy Secretary that it would destroy British industry. Will he guarantee today that for the remainder of this Parliament, we will have a lower carbon price than Europe?

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 04 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Today I challenged Ed Miliband to guarantee that the British carbon price would remain lower than the European price for the remainder of this parliament. He refused. The carbon price set out in his plan to decarbonise the grid will destroy British industry. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1886759946257064061/video/1 [Source]

• 31 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Since the Chancellor’s “growth speech” on Wednesday, there has been radio silence from Ed Miliband. Not a word from him on Heathrow expansion. The loudest cheerleader for net zero seems to have lost his voice. But here’s what he used to say. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1885418936558121065/video/1 [Source]

• 28 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Yesterday Britain's energy intensive industries told the Industry Minister that they "will not be able to bear" the carbon price assumptions in the NESO report on decarbonising the grid by 2030. https://www.eiug.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250127-Open-Letter-to-DBT-Minister-Sarah-Jones-MP-EIUG-and-EII-Trade-Associations.pdf [Source]

• 28 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Ed Miliband’s plan to decarbonise the grid by 2030 is based on increasing the carbon price to £147 per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted. As I said in my speech last night, that would mean the destruction of industry in this country (1/4). https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1884193298782511484/video/1 [Source]

• 25 Jan 2025: Tweet

  The idea that anybody takes this seriously when they are re-regulating the labour market, destroying British oil and gas, increasing NICs, equalising the minimum wage for young people, trying to decarbonise the grid in five years, and importing fiscally negative migrants is mad. https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1883133046611947817/photo/1 [Source]

• 22 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Behold the socialist logic that drives our suicidal energy policies. Chris Stark, put in charge of decarbonising the Grid by Ed Miliband, says data centres vital for AI must be located not where it suits business, or where tech workers are, but where it suits the Grid (1/6). https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1882020168668438744/video/1 [Source]

• 16 Jan 2025: Tweet

  His statement relates specifically to the NESO assumption that the carbon price will rise to an incredible £147t/CO2 by 2030. If he won’t endorse that assumption how can he possibly use the report to justify his policies? [Source]

• 16 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Extraordinary from Miliband in reply to @BradleyThomasUK yesterday. Miliband uses the NESO report to justify his claim he can decarbonise the Grid and also cut bills - not that the report says that - but in the same breath he disowns the basis of its calculation (1/2). https://x.com/NJ_Timothy/status/1879890271397429702/video/1 [Source]

• 16 Jan 2025: Tweet

  As long as the policy runs faster than the technology, and our energy costs are higher as a result than elsewhere, decarbonisation will unavoidably mean deindustrialisation. https://twitter.com/edconwaysky/status/1879849254203924857 [Source]

• 12 Jan 2025: Tweet

  RT @RobertJenrick: Why is Ed Miliband hiding the true cost of renewable energy? [Source]

• 06 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Miliband’s net zero zealotry means he is forcing policy to move faster than technology allows. He claims his policies improve energy security when the opposite is true - just as he says prices will fall when thanks to him they will rise. [Source]

• 06 Jan 2025: Tweet

  The Government says “interconnectors will play an important role in the import and export of electricity to help us manage the peaks and troughs in our renewable energy generation.” [Source]

• 06 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Electricity imports accounted for 16pc of our power in the first 9 months of 2024, and reached 19pc in June. Labour’s plan to decarbonise the Grid by 2030, and reluctance to develop new domestic nuclear capacity or exploit our gas reserves, means we we’ll depend more on imports. [Source]