VoteClimate: Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22 - 9th March 2022

Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22 - 9th March 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Defence Supplementary Estimate 2021-22.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-03-09/debates/5C98ACCC-1640-4F80-9315-8E03178FCC62/DefenceSupplementaryEstimate2021-22

17:28 Julian Lewis (Conservative)

Fifthly, the conflict has exposed the folly of fuel dependence on hostile countries and raised questions about the wisdom of a policy of unilateral net zero targets by democracies regardless of what much larger countries, that are not democracies, do. I am not seeking to pick an argument with the environmentalists; I am merely saying that there is a parallel with the question of unilateral or one-sided nuclear disarmament, because if we achieve net zero at tremendous cost to ourselves while much larger hostile countries simply flout the commitments that they have given, we will have taken that pain for no benefit to anyone. Targets must be multilateral if they are going to do anything other than weaken our ability to protect ourselves.

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