31 Jan 2024 Andrew Mitchell MP (@AndrewmitchMP) Congrats to @IOMChief for meeting 2023 funding target for #MigrationMPTF. ???????? contributing an additional $1m to tackle human trafficking and exploitation of women migrants and address impact of climate change. [Source]
31 Jan 2024 Chris Elmore MP (@CPJElmore) RT @JoStevensLabour: The TATA workers I met last week know that the virgin steel they make is vital to supporting our renewable energy aspi… [Source]
30 Jan 2024 Steff Aquarone MP (@Steffanaquarone) I'm at @NorfolkCC this morning, and have asked the leader whether she believes we have the resources and procedures in place to prevent further flooding, which will only worsen with the impact of climate change. [Source]
29 Jan 2024 Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) The Government spends £10 billion a year supporting the fossil fuel industry, pushing us off an existential cliff edge.
Should we instead invest a similar amount in sustainable energy technologies?
That's what I asked the Director for Regulation and Economics at Octopus Energy. https://twitter.com/labourlewis/status/1752017511078563935/video/1 [Source]
27 Jan 2024 Adrian Ramsay MP (@AdrianRamsay) A recent report by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee only underlines what I and @TheGreenParty have been saying for some time: the Government must get its act together and come up with a plan for living with climate change and living with flooding. [Source]
26 Jan 2024 Bob Blackman MP (@BobBlackman) RT @AzerbaijaninUK: Today is the first-ever International Day of #CleanEnergy. Setting a target to increase the share of renewable energy t… [Source]
26 Jan 2024 Bob Blackman MP (@BobBlackman) RT @ClaireCoutinho: Even the independent Climate Change Committee’s own data shows that we’re going to need oil and gas in the decades ahea… [Source]
24 Jan 2024 Mark Tami MP (@MarkTamiMP) The UK Government’s plans would make us the first developed country in the world to have no primary steel making capabilities. By importing primary steel from India, while UK steelworks are decarbonising, we are simply exporting those carbon emissions elsewhere in the world. https://twitter.com/MarkTamiMP/status/1750157043011318230/video/1 [Source]
23 Jan 2024 Jo Stevens MP (@JoStevensLabour) Really powerful and heartfelt speech from @SKinnock in our @UKLabour steel debate. We must not have irreversible decisions when there are alternatives available that secure jobs, sovereign capability to make virgin steel and a just transition
#SaveOurSteel
#BritainWeNeedOurSteel [Source]
23 Jan 2024 Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (@BellRibeiroAddy) I voted to throw out the Tories' latest fossil fuel licensing bill last night.
Their fixation with drilling for new oil & gas will leave the country poorer & colder, exacerbating the climate crisis to appease a few fossil fuel multinationals and their shareholders. [Source]
22 Jan 2024 Stephen Morgan MP (@StephenMorganMP) Tonight I voted against the Government’s plans to grant new North Sea oil and gas licences. The legislation will not bring down energy costs for Portsmouth people and is incompatible with our international climate change commitments [Source]
22 Jan 2024 Afzal Khan MP (@Afzal4Gorton) New oil & gas licences will mean higher bills & carbon emissions. Yet, this is what the Tories are prioritising over cheaper renewables which are the best option for the planet & our constituents' finances.
I called out the Government's hypocritical record on climate change???? https://twitter.com/Afzal4Gorton/status/1749481660217733554/video/1 [Source]
22 Jan 2024 Stephen Morgan MP (@StephenMorganMP) Rail freight will play a critical role in growing our economy, reducing road congestion and meeting our net zero ambitions. Great to meet with @MaggieSimpson49 from @RailFreightUK today to discuss the sector's huge potential [Source]
21 Jan 2024 Chi Onwurah MP (@ChiOnwurah) The Tories are paying Tata Steel half a billion pounds to slash jobs and destroy our sovereign steelmaking capacity. Labour would invest in British current and future green steelmaking capacity and jobs. This is not about climate change, but Tory weakness & incompetence. https://twitter.com/SKinnock/status/1748242908862464143 [Source]
20 Jan 2024 Chris Law MP (@ChrisLawSNP) RT @BylineTV: BREAKING: Lay-offs in Port Talbot are due to Brexit and not Net Zero says Ex First Minister, Carwyn Jones.
“The Net Zero ar… [Source]
20 Jan 2024 Sarah Jones MP (@LabourSJ) RT @thefabians: For the session on #PlanesForPower: Environment and Climate we're joined by Shadow Minister for Industry and Decarbonisatio… [Source]
20 Jan 2024 Douglas Alexander MP (@D_G_Alexander) (6/8) And we met with atmospheric scientists, economists, politicians, negotiators, farmers, teachers, and activists developing and implementing policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change while advancing Nepal’s economic and social development. [Source]
20 Jan 2024 Douglas Alexander MP (@D_G_Alexander) (5/8) In Nepal, the students got to assess the profoundly damaging impact of climate change on the Himalayas - the water towers of Asia - that critically help provide fresh water to more than a billion people on the plains below. [Source]
20 Jan 2024 Douglas Alexander MP (@D_G_Alexander) (3/8) Yet today, as a world, we’re badly off track. The 2023 SDG Report shows that on key goals like poverty and hunger progress has stalled. On Net Zero the latest evidence is that last year was, in fact, the hottest year on record. [Source]
20 Jan 2024 Douglas Alexander MP (@D_G_Alexander) (1/8) In the first weeks of this year I’ve been teaching an undergraduate course for New York University examining how, in the coming years, the world can get back on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and deliver a Net Zero world by 2050. [Source]
20 Jan 2024 Emma Foody MP (@efoody) ⚡ I will fight to put our area at the forefront of Labour’s ‘Green prosperity plan’, making sure we benefit from the next generation of well paid, unionised, green jobs. Climate change is an emergency, and so is the need for skilled jobs and opportunities for local people. (2/4) https://twitter.com/efoody/status/1748633336535289885/photo/1 [Source]
20 Jan 2024 Louise Haigh MP (@LouHaigh) In a cost of living crisis and a climate crisis, we should be doing everything we can to make public transport affordable, reliable, and accessible.
Whilst the Tories accept managed decline, our Labour Mayors are building public transport that works for people. https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/1748613261665202546 [Source]
19th January 2024
19 Jan 2024 Neil O'Brien MP (@NeilDotObrien) RT @t848m0: We probably should intervene but it’s entirely pointless if we continue with the same high cost energy policy and carbon taxati… [Source]
19 Jan 2024 Chris Law MP (@ChrisLawSNP) RT @neilcgray: Labour wants to end oil & gas, but isn’t willing to invest in green energy we need for Scotland’s economy, for energy securi… [Source]
19 Jan 2024 Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) The majority of us want climate action and affordable energy bills.
Expanding oil and gas extraction only means more profits for the oil and gas industry.
To tackle the climate crisis, we must ramp up investment in renewable energy and consign fossil fuels to the history books. https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1748213464542441538 [Source]
19 Jan 2024 Imran Hussain MP (@Imran_HussainMP) There are ways to enable a just transition towards clean, green energy.
Rejecting union plans, offering no serious alternative, and cutting thousands of job is not a just transition. #TataSteel [Source]
18 Jan 2024 Steve Reed MP (@SteveReedMP) ????️The next Labour government will introduce a robust land-use framework that will promote sustainable farming, help meet our climate goals and strengthen our ecosystems (5/6) [Source]
17 Jan 2024 Steve Race MP (@steve_race) #Exeter and the SW region has huge potential in climate tech.
I’ve written for @LCEF_UK about regional investment inequality. To meet the challenge of climate change and generate growth, we need to ensure people in every region can start up & scale up their green businesses. https://twitter.com/LCEF_UK/status/1747530331903639553 [Source]
17 Jan 2024 Patrick Hurley MP (@patrick_hurley) Lack of investment in homegrown green energy, a refusal to adequately train our young people to do the jobs that need doing, and an isolationist approach to international trade. It all adds up. And it all gets felt in people’s wages and on their bank balances.
Time for change. [Source]
16th January 2024
16 Jan 2024 Matt Rodda MP (@MattRodda) Today in Parliament I questioned the Government’s lack of progress insulating older homes, and how this is affecting many residents’ energy bills.
If the Government had tackled this earlier not only could it have helped lower costs, but also helped reduce CO2 emissions. https://twitter.com/MattRodda/status/1747349150058864779/video/1 [Source]
16 Jan 2024 Adrian Ramsay MP (@AdrianRamsay) I have many conversations with young people about climate change - and indeed with older people concerned for their grandchildren's future.
Thanks @KayleighPoacher and @BBCNorfolk for highlighting this issue. [Source]
16 Jan 2024 Adrian Ramsay MP (@AdrianRamsay) I'm not surprised that climate change is Children's Word of the Year.
Young people I speak to are deeply concerned about their future - as are growing numbers of adults
Political leaders have a moral responsibility to seriously step up climate action now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/67986655 [Source]
16 Jan 2024 Bill Esterson MP (@Bill_Esterson) Energy Minister, Graham Stuart ranting in response to @UKLabour questions.
He can’t accept that this government has undermined investment in the massive economic opportunities available in net zero.
The UK has slipped to 7th on renewables investment on this government’s watch. [Source]
11 Jan 2024 John Glen MP (@JohnGlenUK) This will mean cheaper household bills in the long run and help the UK to achieve our net zero target by 2050 without it leading to tax-rises for working people.
3/3 [Source]
11 Jan 2024 Liam Byrne MP (@liambyrnemp) RT @BrumLabour: Birmingham has an ambitious plan to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030 and now we have backed the Climate and Ecology… [Source]
11 Jan 2024 Ed Miliband MP (@Ed_Miliband) Thank you Chris for your brilliant, incisive, leadership of the Climate Change Committee. You have more than lived up to the remit envisaged in the Climate Change Act holding government to account without fear or favour. You will be a hard act to follow. https://twitter.com/chiefexecccc/status/1745357058126340596 [Source]
11 Jan 2024 Sam Rushworth MP (@SamJRushworth) @MarkHoldstock Fortunately, Labour isn't adopting the Conservative agenda. Instead we want to radically break from it after 14 yrs of national decline under the Tories, including cutting energy bills and creating skilled well-paid by making the UK energy secure & 1st country to reach net zero. [Source]
10 Jan 2024 Richard Burgon MP (@RichardBurgon) I just voted against the Tories' Anti-Boycott Bill.
Whether it be to oppose Israel's illegal settlements that violate international law or the companies behind the climate crisis, people must have a right to boycott.
Once again the Tories are trampling on key democratic rights. [Source]
09 Jan 2024 Julian Smith MP (@JulianSmithUK) The Government's approach to reaching Net Zero will be pragmatic and proportionate, so that households and businesses have access to the support they need
A £12.6bn boost by 2028 will deliver extra help for families, including targeted support
More ????… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1744782441217229133
09 Jan 2024 Ed Miliband MP (@Ed_Miliband) 2023 was the hottest year on record. We see the effects of the climate crisis all around us- floods, fires, droughts.
Let 2024 be the year that we kick out this government which delays action, so we can start delivering equal to the emergency we face.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67861954 [Source]
09 Jan 2024 Samantha Niblett MP (@SamanthaNiblet4) Seems the current Tory MP for #SouthDerbyshire can’t quite wrap her head around 2023 being the hottest year on record & it still snowing in London in January ????
Tories aren’t prioritising the climate crisis because they don’t believe there is one.
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1744706186480419107 [Source]
09 Jan 2024 Nus Ghani MP (@Nus_Ghani) Copper is key ???????? reaching Net Zero & EV ????
Visited Khnaiguiyah Mine with 8 ???????? firms. Project has tonnes of copper & responsible mineral extraction ⛏️
This UK-Saudi consortium won the first exploration licence worth $68m. Thanks Moxico and Ajlan & Bros ???????????????????? @UKAmbKSA https://twitter.com/Nus_Ghani/status/1744700197525917702/photo/1 [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Luke Pollard MP (@LukePollard) The Government has pulled tonight’s vote on a bill to grant new North Sea oil and gas licences.
The legislation will not bring down energy costs for people in Plymouth and is incompatible with our international climate change commitments.
I would have voted against it. [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Claire Hanna MP (@ClaireHanna) RT @labourlewis: As a proud co-sponsor of the Decarbonisation and Economic Strategy Bill (Green New Deal Bill), we set out a blueprint for… [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) The Tories have got this wrong, Labour's Reasoned Amendment sums up why:
This Bill: “is entirely incompatible with the UK’s international climate change commitments...a totally unnecessary piece of legislation which will do nothing to serve the UK’s national interest”.
9/9 [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) At our fingertips are ways to create an energy supply that works for people and planet.
So too are ways to guarantee a just transition for the workers in the oil and gas industry.
5/9 [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Stephen Morgan MP (@StephenMorganMP) This evening in Parliament I will be voting against the Government's plans to grant new North Sea oil and gas licences. The legislation will not bring down energy costs for Portsmouth people and is incompatible with our international climate change commitments (1/2) [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Tonia Antoniazzi MP (@ToniaAntoniazzi) The Tories dreadful Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
❌doesn’t cut your energy bills
❌won’t improve our energy security
❌doubles down on fossil fuels
❌undermines our efforts to fight climate change
I will be voting to scrap this unnecessary, political gimmick. [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Preet Gill MP (@PreetKGillMP) Keir's spot on. Why are we responding after the fact on floods yet again?
Labour would create a COBRA-style Flood Resilience Taskforce to coordinate flood preparation and protect more households from the threats posed by climate change and flooding.
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1744307518363373730?s=20 [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Paul Waugh MP (@paulwaugh) Rishi Sunak responds to a Q about govt flip flopping on net zero policy by saying he's given businesses full expensing...
Then says on net zero there was 'ideological push' to go in a way he didn't want, and ppl forced 'prematurely' to change. [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Neil O'Brien MP (@NeilDotObrien) RT @FredSimonEU: French gvt just tabled a new law that basically scraps renewable energy targets in France and reinstates nuclear as the ma… [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Gareth Thomas MP (@GarethThomasMP) The first new law @RishiSunak & the Tories want today is the Offshore Petroleum Bill. It is a political gimmick that won’t bring down energy bills or improve our energy security. It will though damage our commitments to tackling climate change. I will vote against it tonight… [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Steve Reed MP (@SteveReedMP) The Tory Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill is a damaging political gimmick.
It will not bring down people’s energy bills or secure the jobs we need for the future.
But it will undermine work to tackle the climate crisis .
I will vote against it tonight. [Source]
08 Jan 2024 Matthew Pennycook MP (@mtpennycook) The Tory Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill is a damaging political gimmick.
It will not bring down people’s energy bills.
It will do nothing for energy security.
But it will undermine our climate commitments and erode UK climate leadership.
I will vote against it tonight. [Source]
07 Jan 2024 Sureena Brackenridge MP (@Sureena4WNE) @JulieRoger37525 My vision, and Labour's plan, sees our region once again at the cutting edge of the forthcoming fourth industrial revolution, attracting sizable investments in building/renovation and green energy manufacturing. So we get our future back. ???? [Source]
06 Jan 2024 Michael Payne MP (@MichaelPayneUK) ???? Introduced Britain’s first ever Armed Forces & Veterans Day
???? Doubled school funding per pupil
???? 21% reduction in UK’s greenhouse gas emissions
???? Free off-peak travel anywhere in England for over-60s & disabled people [Source]
06 Jan 2024 Jake Richards MP (@JakeBenRichards) @twoche@juliesharp86 This is utter nonsense. There is a real choice: investment in green and renewable energy, tax the richest (close the non-Dom tax status) to invest in the NHS, and close a tax loop hole for private schools to help out state system. And many many more! [Source]
06 Jan 2024 Caroline Voaden MP (@CarolineVoaden) I admire Chris Skidmore for having the courage to stand by his principles and resign rather than vote for new oil and gas licences. He says "The climate crisis that we face is too important to politicise or to ignore."
How many other Conservative MPs will vote against this bill? https://twitter.com/CSkidmoreUK/status/1743324376479486007 [Source]
06 Jan 2024 Fleur Anderson MP (@PutneyFleur) Well done to Chris Skidmore for taking a stand against
Conservative plans to increase use of fossil fuels.
This won’t cut bills but will undermine moves to green energy, green jobs and net zero.
I will be joining Labour MPs and voting against this on Monday.
#ClimateAction https://twitter.com/cskidmoreuk/status/1743324376479486007 [Source]
05 Jan 2024 Alison Bennett MP (@AlisonEBennett) I applaud this decision by Chris Skidmore, who resigns as a Tory MP because he cannot support legislation that will move us away from our net zero commitments
Will Conservative MPs in #MidSussex find it within themselves to take a similar stance when they vote on this bill? https://twitter.com/CSkidmoreUK/status/1743324376479486007 [Source]
05 Jan 2024 Jeremy Corbyn MP (@jeremycorbyn) More than 1,000 homes have been flooded in the 8th major storm in 3 months.
If your fiscal rules stop you from tackling the climate crisis, your fiscal rules are broken.
We need investment in floodplain protection & restoration, renewable energy, and the future of our planet! [Source]
05 Jan 2024 Carla Denyer MP (@carla_denyer) The climate crisis is here & now, being experienced in the UK, but the PM can't hold on to anyone who has good intentions on the environment.
Labour has to be held to account as well - how long before their green champions feel their principles are too compromised to continue? https://twitter.com/CSkidmoreUK/status/1743324376479486007 [Source]
05 Jan 2024 Imran Hussain MP (@Imran_HussainMP) The Energy Minister who signed the Net Zero pledge into law is the second Conservative figure to resign in protest of Rishi Sunak's chaotic climate decisions.
Sunak hasn't just abandoned decades-long climate consensus, he's actively destroyed it. We need a General Election now! https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1743332868452204707 [Source]
05 Jan 2024 James Cartlidge MP (@jcartlidgemp) It’s not just taxes we’re cutting - we’re also cutting CO2 emissions & fossil fuel use.
???? The Global Carbon Project has confirmed Britain as the first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions
⛽️ Fossil fuel generation now accounts for only 35% of Britain’s electricity [Source]
04 Jan 2024 Mike Martin MP (@ThreshedThought) 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
02 Jan 2024 Sorcha-Lucy Eastwood MP (@SorchaEastwood) We need to leave behind the idea that growth must be forever as it isn't and it can't be. We have to realise that climate change is happening now and impacting in many ways, and that the old disaster capitalism model isn't working 13/ [Source]