VoteClimate: Prosperity Fund - 6th June 2019

Prosperity Fund - 6th June 2019

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

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-06-06/debates/1C3FEAD6-A322-4D9D-B605-305672BAA17D/ProsperityFund

Bill Esterson (Labour)

Between 2016 and 2018, the prosperity fund financed 16 fossil fuel projects across the world, including two in fracking. Is not this obsession with fossil fuels, despite the fine words of the Secretary of State, just confirmation that this Government could not care less about addressing the climate emergency, which is, after all, one of the biggest threats to alleviating world poverty?

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