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

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• 16 Dec 2024: Tweet

  Pleased to have participated on the roundtable hosted by Lib Dem Lord’s transport spokesperson, Baroness Randerson, on Zemo’s roadmap to Net Zero. I’m proud to be working with them to secure Net Zero transport in the UK. Read the full report here: https://www.zemo.org.uk/assets/other/Delivery%20Roadmap%20report%20-%20Zemo%20Partnership%20-%20single%20page.pdf [Source]

• 5 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  As we have heard from colleagues across the House, the current state of public transport simply is not good enough. Ticket prices are too high, services are too unreliable, infrastructure is too old and capacity is too meagre—and that is just for those who have access to public transport. Too many parts of our country have no meaningful access to public transport whatsoever. After years of routes being cut and timetables being foreshortened, many people no longer have access to a regular bus service despite living many miles distant from any rail network. This is hampering our economy, holding back local communities and damaging our high streets. Our public transport system should be the engine of growth and opportunity, not an impediment to them. If we are to reach the Government targets on economic growth and net zero we must take rapid and urgent steps to improve our public transport provision. We simply do not have time to tarry.

  Too much time has been wasted, and we do not have time to waste. Public transport is vital to our economy, to widening opportunity and our transition to net zero. As a Londoner, I realise that I am blessed by the public transport system that we have in the capital. Despite sometimes justified criticism of Transport for London, it stands as an exemplar of what can be achieved via a co-ordinated transport strategy and a non-ideological approach to ownership, working with both public and private providers to create an integrated transport network. As we heard from colleagues across the House, the situation is very different across much of the country. I hope that the Secretary of State and the Chancellor are both listening.

  Full debate: Improving Public Transport

• 25 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Congrats to @LouHaigh⁩ on today’s launch of the Jet Zero Taskforce Pleased “it will also explore… non-CO2 impacts of aviation… to account for the sector’s overall environmental impact” but sad no mention of noise reduction in achieving sustainability https://www.gov.uk/government/news/revamped-taskforce-set-to-deliver-a-sustainable-vision-for-aviation [Source]

• 12 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  With many of our current lines at maximum capacity, we desperately need investment in our rail network to encourage rail freight, improve consumer choice and push forward the transition to net zero. We also need to replace existing infrastructure that has reached the end of its useful life. The District line in my constituency of Wimbledon is notorious for breakdowns, cancellations and delays. It needs investment urgently.

  Full debate: Transport Infrastructure Projects: Elizabeth Line

• 29 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Tamworth (Sarah Edwards) on securing this important debate. As we have heard, the current state of the electric van roll-out is simply not good enough. We are way behind what is needed to meet the target of 100% electric vehicle sales by 2035. Currently, less than 2% of light goods vehicles are electric, while so far this year, little more than 5% of new registrations are electric. That is behind not just the Government’s zero emission vehicle mandate of 10%, but what is being achieved in comparable European countries, including, as we heard, the Netherlands, Germany and France.

  Things are not improving, with worrying signs that the industry is stagnating. Since July, new electric van registrations have fallen every month. As the Climate Change Committee outlined last week, urgent action is needed for us to meet our national defined contributions under the Paris agreement. There is no time to delay. Transport is still the largest single emitter of greenhouse gases in the UK, responsible for 26% of the UK’s total emissions in 2021. Decarbonisation of the sector is consequently critical to meeting our targets.

  Full debate: Zero Emission Vans

• 17 Oct 2024: Tweet

  Thanks to the constituents who gave up their time to talk to me about the climate crisis???? I promised to keep pressing the PM to adopt meaningful action; particularly on easy wins such as home insulation???? ⁦@FoEMerton⁩ ⁦⁦@SustainableMert⁩ https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/news/activists-seek-mps-help-to-press-starmer-into-tougher-climate-stance/ [Source]