VoteClimate: Robert Stephenson and Company: 200th Anniversary - 5th July 2023

Robert Stephenson and Company: 200th Anniversary - 5th July 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Robert Stephenson and Company: 200th Anniversary.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-07-05/debates/2D66C520-B5D5-4EE6-9E4D-7E3FE4D4130B/RobertStephensonAndCompany200ThAnniversary

11:00 Caroline Nokes (Conservative)

Climate change is one of the greatest scientific and engineering problems that the world has ever known. We have built a world of technology based on fossil fuels—the Robert Stephenson works are an example of that—and now we need to re-engineer it and do that fast, or we will endanger the very civilisation that our technology created. Labour will more than double our onshore wind capacity, triple—

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11:15 The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Huw Merriman)

Linking north to south we have our new high-speed rail project, High Speed 2, which will reduce the journey time from Manchester to London by almost an hour and give this country a high-speed rail spine, which we have lived without for too long. All those new railway lines will help us to deliver our commitment to decarbonise rail by 2050.

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