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Pippa Heylings's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

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

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• 21 Jan 2025: Tweet

  RT @manupulgarvidal: If you walk out of a party, maybe nothing happens. If you walk out of a race, you actually lose. The Paris Agreement i… [Source]

• 17 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  As the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for energy security and net zero, I am delighted to support the private Member’s Bill of my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson): the sunshine Bill. Madam Deputy Speaker, I am beaming.

  The Bill is our chance to get this right. It is our chance for a cleaner, greener and more secure future that addresses the triple cost of living, housing and climate crises and takes people with us. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham.

  Full debate: New Homes (Solar Generation) Bill

• 10 Jan 2025: Tweet

  RT @GreenLibDems: Yesterday the Climate Cluster spoke to @_MCS_Foundation decarbonising homes and Max Wilkinson’s ‘Sunshine Bill’ ☀️ Its… [Source]

• 7 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The objectives of the Bill are to broaden the investment and borrowing powers of the Crown Estate and to strengthen its corporate governance, in order to help accelerate, among other things, the delivery of new renewable energy, particularly offshore wind. We are generally supportive of the Bill and would welcome further scrutiny on issues such as the cap on borrowing; accountability in the relationship with Great British Energy; managing the conflicts between competing interests and values of our seabed and coastline, as mentioned by my right hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael); community benefit; devolution in Wales; and our climate and nature duty. I will proceed to elucidate those issues.

  In the UK, we are off track in meeting our climate targets, following previous years when the Conservatives have dithered and rowed back on pledges. We need to increase investment in renewable energy in order to strengthen our energy security and to help families keep warm and lower their energy bills, particularly during this cost of living crisis. As a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, families and businesses have been left exposed to skyrocketing bills. For far too long we have been reliant on autocrats such as Putin to meet our energy needs.

  For many years, however, the Crown Estate has been constrained in its ability to borrow through the Treasury, forcing it—as we understand it—to resort to selling off assets in order to fund its investments for the future. The changes proposed in the Bill, in partnership with Great British Energy, hold the potential to unlock investment in vital infrastructure across supply chains, ports and green energy sectors, and to accelerate progress by unblocking the huge delays in the delivery of new green energy, which is desperately needed following the slow progress made under the previous Government.

  During the debate in the Lords, an undertaking was given that the framework agreement would be updated to include a definition of the meaning of sustainable development as regards the Crown Estate, with explicit reference to part 1 of the Climate Change Act 2008—the targets for 2050—as well as section 56 of that Act, and to sections 1 to 3 of the Environment Act 2021 regarding nature recovery. I look forward to seeing an updated version of the framework agreement to reassure us that this definition of sustainable development has been included.

  This Bill presents a trident of opportunity. It can enhance energy security, reduce household bills and bring us closer to achieving our net zero targets, but we cannot afford to lose sight of the need for financial accountability, the duty to protect nature, the need to devolve to Wales, and the need to ensure that all communities are included in the crucial journey to net zero.

  Full debate: Crown Estate Bill [Lords]

• 31 Dec 2024: Tweet

  RT @piersforster: We will publish our ⁦@theCCCuk⁩ Seventh Carbon Budget advice on 26 of February, Fiona gives some useful context, going t… [Source]

• 18 Dec 2024: Tweet

  I was privileged to open the East of England Global Health Conference. I shared experiences from time working internationally to tackle climate change to now working as a parliamentarian to pressure the Government on the twin crises of health and climate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ0Oz9q01TU [Source]

• 17 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  It is so good to hear the Minister affirm the need to bring the public onside, as well as private sector investment, to achieve the transformation towards green power and net zero. The Liberal Democrats support Great British Energy if community energy is at the centre of the Great British Energy Bill. Our colleagues in the Lords are debating amendments relating to direct participation in and benefit from community energy. Will the Minister agree to those proposals if they come to this House?

  Full debate: Community Energy Projects

• 11 Dec 2024: Tweet

  RT @CommonsEAC: How is the work of UK scientists in the Antarctic deepening our knowledge of climate change? Tune into our session this af… [Source]

• 04 Dec 2024: Tweet

  RT @zerohour_uk: ???? @PippaHeylings: “As I set out at #COP29, a Climate and Nature Act would provide the hope we need right now; reigniting t… [Source]

• 27 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Delighted to open East of England Global Health Conference with speech on working internationally to tackle climate change to working as an MP to pressure government on twin crises of health & climate. Climate change also a health challenge. #CambridgeGlobalHealthPartnerships https://x.com/pippaheylings/status/1861780428631245072/photo/1 [Source]