VoteClimate: Engagements - 13th September 2023

Engagements - 13th September 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Engagements.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-09-13/debates/5B3796EE-90BC-42C1-9561-3BD2F1893ED8/Engagements

Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat)

Q10. Luton airport is trying to expand its capacity massively, from 18 million passengers per year to a whopping 32 million. That will blight the lives of thousands of residents across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire—especially those in north St Albans, who live under the flightpaths—but it will also fly in the face of advice from the Government’s own climate advisers. It has been reported that the Prime Minister is getting ready to ignore his climate advisers. Is that true? ( 906407 )

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Rishi Sunak (Conservative)

No; but I would say that my approach to reaching net zero is not one that requires people to give up doing the things that they want to do and enjoy, such as flying. The right thing to be doing is as we are doing: investing in and funding new technologies, such as sustainable aviation fuel, because that is how we will decarbonise aviation during the transition to net zero, rather than forcing people to give everything up.

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