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We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Sharon Hodgson

• 16 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @jreynoldsMP: Tackling climate change is a huge economic opportunity for Britain. This government is working to ensure every community… [Source]

• 23 Sep 2024: Tweet

  Excellent to chair the @SME4LABOUR panel on warm homes. ???????? Labour’s warm housing plan is key to tackling the climate crisis as well as alleviating fuel poverty, which has become particularly acute during the cost-of-living crisis. https://twitter.com/SharonHodgsonMP/status/1838356658424320305/photo/1 [Source]

• 01 Jul 2024: Tweet

  RT @rushanaraali: I have fought for action on climate change both here in the UK and in countries most affected by the climate crisis. Un… [Source]

• 20 Apr 2024: Tweet

  RT @KiMcGuinness: As the first North East Mayor I’ll make sure our region is the home of green energy. Great to visit @Port_of_Tyne to dis… [Source]

• 16 Apr 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Food redistribution services are fighting on the frontline of the food waste and climate crisis and must be supported. More than a third of all food in the UK is wasted, which is an absolutely shocking statistic. That waste contributes up to 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions and costs the UK economy over £20 billion a year, which is more than the entire aviation sector. There is always lots of public debate about the environmental impacts of aviation, but maybe it is time to shed more light on how we can support food redistribution schemes, which will be foundational if we are to have a more environmentally sustainable future.

  Full debate: Food Waste and Food Distribution

• 25 Mar 2024: Tweet

  RT @vaughangething: Great to welcome @Keir_Starmer to Ynys Môn today to discuss the massive green energy opportunities on the island. Our… [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]

• 02 Dec 2023: Tweet

  RT @Keir_Starmer: The Tories see net zero as a device to divide - for Labour it’s an opportunity to make working people better off. Our cl… [Source]

• 20 Nov 2023: Tweet

  RT @KiMcGuinness: The transition to green energy is our biggest opportunity in the North East, but we need to rethink how we up-skill peopl… [Source]

• 9 Nov 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  In 2024, automotive companies such as Nissan in my constituency will experience new financial and regulatory pressures, including the zero-emission vehicles mandate, which requires 22% of new cars sold in 2024 to be zero emission, and that will increase to 80% by 2030. Nissan, of course, is confident that it will meet all these new measures, but instead of helping manufacturers cope with the increased pressures, the Government have pulled the rug from under them by changing strategy and delaying their electric vehicles net zero 2030 commitment. That has inflicted uncertainty on investors, which will only delay the critical infrastructure that must be built for electric vehicle use. It also gives consumers less incentive to buy electric vehicles, which will simply leave manufacturers footing the bill as a result of decreased demand. That is the opposite of what should be happening: the Government are in the way of progress, not supporting it. We need them to move out of the way, get out of the seat of power and make way for a Government who have a plan, and indeed a mission, to reach net zero in a timely manner.

  Full debate: Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower

• 09 Nov 2023: Tweet

  The SoS for Energy Security and Net Zero admitted that her own Government was doing nothing to bring down energy bills. Today I asked her what she has to say to the thousands of my constituents who are struggling to pay their energy bills this winter. https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/oil-and-gas-licences-plan-may-not-necessarily-bring-down-bills-says-coutinho-b1118405.html https://twitter.com/SharonHodgsonMP/status/1722607300073111715/video/1 [Source]

• 27 Sep 2023: Tweet

  Nissan has recognised the public, business & climate benefit of switching to electrification, why can't the Government? The Government's disappointing backtrack on Net Zero by 2030 has caused unnecessary uncertainty. https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1706314832465539577 [Source]

• 24 Sep 2023: Tweet

  RT @LucyMPowell: Rishi Sunak’s net zero & other short term policy shifts are acts of weakness from a desperate PM. Dodging scrutiny, disr… [Source]

• 20 Sep 2023: Tweet

  firms ahead of the 2030 goal, only to now hit the breaks. Consumers and manufacturers need clear and consistent messaging, investment, infrastructure and incentives to ensure that we are ready. By pushing this back confidence will be lost and our commitment to Net Zero derailed. [Source]

• 16 Mar 2023: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: I am optimistic about the future. I believe Britain has the potential to galvanise green energy and get ahead in the g… [Source]

• 27 Nov 2022: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: Many northern regions are most exposed to the effects of climate change. But these regions are ideally placed to lead… [Source]

• 24 Nov 2022: Tweet

  RT @darrenpjones: High carbon emitting and fossil fuel based companies need to be investing in low carbon and renewable energy as much as p… [Source]

• 10 Nov 2022: Tweet

  RT @UKLabour: Rishi Sunak refuses to back onshore wind, putting his party first and the country second. Tackling the climate crisis requir… [Source]

• 10 Nov 2022: Tweet

  RT @Keir_Starmer: Britain should be leading the way to tackle the climate crisis. Visiting a wind farm in Grimsby, I spoke with industry l… [Source]

• 02 Nov 2022: Tweet

  I’m proud to support the North East’s Transport Decarbonisation Levelling Up Fund bid. Buses help keep our region connected- if successful the bid will be vital for the public transport of the future by investing in new electric buses & EV chargers #decarbNE #sustainabletransport https://x.com/SharonHodgsonMP/status/1587812027090731010/photo/1 [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Tweet

  RT @madge300181: Hello @SharonHodgsonMP fracking creates earthquakes, emits greenhouse gases and industrialises the countryside. As my MP,… [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

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

• 28 Sep 2022: Tweet

  RT @Keir_Starmer: Climate crisis. Prices through the roof. Energy security at a premium. There’s no higher priority for me than fixing… [Source]

• 30 Aug 2022: Tweet

  RT @NazShahBfd: I'm in Pakistan with @IslamicReliefUK to support with relief efforts & raise awareness about this climate crisis. ❇️ 1/3r… [Source]

• 25 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @jreynoldsMP: The @uklabour plan for growth: ???? Public Investment - our Climate Investment Pledge ???? Reform - replacing business rates… [Source]

• 24 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @PreetKGillMP: With the world in desperate crisis, facing climate change, famine and conflict. It is utterly shameful for ⁦@RishiSunak⁩… [Source]

• 22 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: When it comes to tackling climate change, the Tories are dangerously detached from reality. Labour will provide the l… [Source]

• 13 Dec 2021: Vote

  Subsidy Control Bill — Schedule 1 - The subsidy control principles - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 9 Nov 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  To conclude, I would like to look to the world we are creating as legislators in this place. As we speak, delegates from around the world are discussing the means of preserving the planet and protecting the environment in Glasgow at COP26. It is incredibly important that we limit climate change to an increase of 1.5°. Missing, I believe, is leadership for those who will grow up into these environments. The pursuit of climate justice is in no small part to ensure that our children and their children’s children do not face an uninhabitable, hostile world. As those at COP26 work for the future of the planet, let us, here and now, seize this golden opportunity to help those who will inherit it.

  Full debate: Giving Every Baby the Best Start in Life

• 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

• 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

• 11 Feb 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  Surely a technology that is expected to release millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide during the anticipated lifetime of the gasification facility should not be backed by the Government. Indeed, that is a direct contradiction of the Government’s policies on climate change and waste processing. For every one tonne of plastic incinerated, approximately two tonnes of CO 2 are released into the atmosphere, therefore contributing to climate change, whereas, perversely, one tonne of plastic in landfill releases zero CO 2 , so incineration cannot be and is not the solution we seek—it has to be more recycling.

  I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. More recycling has to be the solution; it will never be landfill, and certainly not incineration. How does the Minister expect to meet the Government’s climate target of being carbon neutral by 2050 if planning applications for waste incineration continue to go ahead?

  There are no benefits to be reaped from this planning application. There would not even be huge numbers of jobs created, as only 35 new full-time jobs are being offered. But the jobs pale in comparison to the public health concerns and climate change challenges. I hope I have made it clear, even in these brief comments, that the gasification plant at Hillthorn Park in Washington must be opposed, and I will continue to do just that.

  Full debate: Waste Incineration Facilities

• 05 Feb 2020: Vote

  Transport - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 28 Jan 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  The planning application is in direct contradiction to the Government’s own policies on climate change and waste processing, and the proposed plant could be expected to release millions of tonnes of CO 2 —my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff South and Penarth mentioned that risk—within its anticipated lifetime. Undoubtedly, that will have a negative impact on our environment and on climate change. What assessment have the Government made of the impact that waste incineration could have on climate change?

  Full debate: Industrial and Commercial Waste Incineration

• 4 Jul 2019: Parliamentary Speech

  While we must recognise the challenge that the transition towards electric vehicles presents to the automotive industry, it is important to see it as a great opportunity. Climate change is rightly back on the top of the political agenda, partly due to recent protests, including last week’s successful “The Time is Now” mass lobby. The deadly heatwave that swept across Europe last week should also focus our minds on tackling this issue. According to scientists, it was at least five times, and possibly a hundred times, more likely because of climate change.

  As the shadow Public Health Minister, I am hugely concerned by illegal and harmful levels of air pollution across the UK, especially here in the capital. Air pollution damages the health of millions of people and is hugely dangerous for children, babies, older people, and those with existing health conditions. Successfully transitioning to electric vehicles is just one way of combating the climate crisis.

  Perhaps most importantly of all, the Government continue to hold an unambitious phase-out date for new petrol and diesel models of 2040. By comparison, Norway’s target is for all vehicles sold to be low emission by 2025, the Netherlands and Sweden are aiming for 2030, and Scotland’s target is 2032. Although opinions vary on what the target should be, many in the industry have told me that the sector could absolutely cope with our target being brought forward to, say, 2035. The Committee on Climate Change recently called for the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to be banned by 2030, so does the Minister agree with the CCC?

  Full debate: Sale of New Petrol and Diesel Cars and Vans

• 5 Jun 2019: Parliamentary Speech

  Although we are on our way to closing the gap and making businesses in the north-east a more valuable prospect, we are still recovering from the catastrophes that the region has faced in the last 50 years. Those catastrophes have made our communities resilient, but to ensure that we endure, one thing must be at the heart of any strategy: the environment. We must invest sustainably in our economy to ensure that future growth does not come at the expense of our environment. It is essential to confront the climate crisis in every Government strategy, especially an industrial strategy. I am proud that the Labour party has committed to do that, having already forced the Government to declare a climate emergency in May.

  Full debate: Industrial Strategy: North-East of England

• 22 May 2018: Parliamentary Speech

  The UK is in the grip of an air pollution crisis—the Environment Secretary was talking about it this morning—with pollutants responsible for 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK. I see two problems with the target, however. First, it is not ambitious enough to deal with the environmental issue with sufficient urgency or to ensure that the UK maintains its leadership on electric vehicles. Research shows that bringing the target forward by 10 years could nearly halve UK oil imports, support a larger number of jobs overall in the automotive sector and reduce total cumulative carbon dioxide emissions in a shorter period. Is the Minister’s Department currently considering bringing the target forward?

  Full debate: UK Automotive Industry: Job Losses

• 06 Sep 2016: Vote

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

• 09 May 2016: Vote

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

• 03 May 2016: Vote

  Housing and Planning Bill — Neighbourhood right of appeal - 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 Dec 2013: Vote

  Recall of Elected Representatives — Schedule 4 — Application and modification of emissions limit duty - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 6 Nov 2013: Parliamentary Speech

  The energy company executives who appeared before the Energy and Climate Change Committee last week assured my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North West (John Robertson) that they would not cut off the elderly or disabled this winter, but those on prepayment meters cannot just keep using their heating; they are cut off the minute they run out of money or emergency credit.

  Full debate: Energy Price Freeze

• 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

• 31 Mar 2011: Parliamentary Speech

  I am very pleased to hear that the Minister got a positive response—I would expect nothing less of the friendly north-east. The Chancellor said in his Budget statement last Wednesday that there would be an enterprise zone on Tyneside, but the Red Book refers to an enterprise zone in the North Eastern local enterprise partnership, and I am sure the Minister is aware that they are not one and the same. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change told the Sunderland Echo that Sunderland had a really good chance of getting an enterprise zone. Will the Minister confirm that the Chancellor misled the House last week and that a decision has not yet been made on where—

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 24 Mar 2011: Parliamentary Speech

  I also have concerns about the much heralded renewable heat incentive. A business man with a small to medium-sized enterprise in my constituency wrote to me to make the point that, had the scheme started next month, it had the potential to provide a big boost to the solar thermal sector. As it is, it will not start until October next year, and at a much reduced level to that which was expected. So, in effect, and even with the premium payment, the whole industry is on hold for 18 months, because who would invest now when they could get an incentive to do so in the next 18 months? That does not help the renewable energy sector; it puts the industry in limbo, and it puts jobs and innovation at risk.

  Full debate: Amendment of the Law