VoteClimate: Humanitarian Crisis in the Mediterranean and Europe - 9th September 2015

Humanitarian Crisis in the Mediterranean and Europe - 9th September 2015

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Humanitarian Crisis in the Mediterranean and Europe.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-09-09/debates/15090928000001/HumanitarianCrisisInTheMediterraneanAndEurope

13:52 Hilary Benn (Labour)

Then there is the threat of global climate change. If people can no longer live where they were born because their houses are under water or because there is no water any more, they will do what human beings have done throughout human history: they will move to try to find a life somewhere else. The wave of economic migration we have seen in Europe these past few summers will be as nothing compared with the wave that is to come if we do not act on these issues—to tackle climate change, to fight conflict, to promote economic development and to fight poverty—so that people can build a life for themselves and their families in the land in which they were born.

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18:24 Alex Salmond (Gordon) (SNP)

I said that this was the most consensual motion in which I had been involved in this House. I was involved in a number of consensual motions in the Scottish Parliament as First Minister when I led a minority Government; I felt that the necessity of numbers often required me to temper my enthusiasm for certain areas of policy and I tried instead to build a consensus. I did so on issues such as climate change remarkably successfully.

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