VoteClimate: NATO Summit - 13th July 2023

NATO Summit - 13th July 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate NATO Summit.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-07-13/debates/10D2C40B-D0F6-4F32-B134-3060A2249F6F/NATOSummit

10:44 Keir Starmer (Labour)

Russia has built 475 new military sites and 50 major new military bases on its northern frontier—its northern flank—in the past six years because the loss of the summer sea ice has exposed that flank. That makes clear the way in which climate change is affecting and endangering all our lives not just in terms of the environment and food security, but militarily. What discussions did the Prime Minister have at the NATO summit about the Arctic Council and how its balance, which has moved from 5:3 to 7:1, has furthered that isolation? Did he discuss how the northern sea route has been claimed by Russia as an inland sea and how warships are now having to declare when they go through?

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