VoteClimate: Oral Answers to Questions - 22nd November 2016

Oral Answers to Questions - 22nd November 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Oral Answers to Questions.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-11-22/debates/CEA628B2-22C8-436C-99A9-9A92A21397A5/OralAnswersToQuestions

Emily Thornberry (Labour)

about a Trump presidency. Will he tell us what reasons there are to be positive about the attitude of the new president to climate change?

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Boris Johnson

It is vital that we are as positive as we can possibly be about the new Administration-elect. As I have said to the House before, I believe that the UK-US relationship is vital, and I think that President-elect Trump is a deal maker. The UK has led on climate change globally, and we have had outstanding success. I will be open with the House that we will be taking to the Administration-to-be the message that we believe that the issue of climate change is important; it is of importance to the United States and the world.

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Emily Thornberry (Labour)

The reality is that we have a new president who says that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese, who has repeatedly promised to scrap the Paris treaty and whose top adviser on the environment calls global warming “nothing to worry about”. There is no doubt that that is a hugely dangerous development for the future of our planet, so let me ask the Secretary of State this: when the Prime Minister goes to see the new president in January, will she have the moral backbone to tell him that he is wrong on climate change and must not scrap the Paris treaty, and will she lead the world in condemning him if he does?

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