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Clive Efford's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Clive Efford

• 28 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  I voted against the framework for Heathrow airport in 2018 because I was not satisfied that the legislation before us would deal with air quality, noise, climate change and surface access issues. Does my hon. Friend agree that if we are to go ahead with a third runway at Heathrow, we must satisfy ourselves in this House that those issues have been addressed, and that they cannot be set aside by developers once they have permission to go ahead?

  Full debate: Airport Expansion

• 13 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  My understanding is that these notices are issued at times of high demand, and that they are evidence of the system working in order to prevent power cuts or the system breaking down. I would have thought the Conservatives would have learned their lesson from the spike in international gas prices that caused the crisis in people’s fuel bills and led to a cost of living crisis, but they have learned nothing from that. Does my hon. Friend the Minister agree that this really underlines our policy of ensuring that we have a secure provision of renewable energy, which leaves us less open to spikes in prices on the international market?

  Full debate: Gas Storage Levels

• 16 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: COP29 is a chance for Britain to show climate leadership on the global stage. This government believes that climate secur… [Source]

• 12 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: What’s the link between a wind turbine blade factory in Hull, and the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan? Let me tell you????… [Source]

• 01 Jul 2024: Tweet

  RT @rushanaraali: I have fought for action on climate change both here in the UK and in countries most affected by the climate crisis. Un… [Source]

• 26 Jun 2024: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: Young people have a right to feel angry about the climate crisis. See my message on London Climate Action Week???? https://… [Source]

• 01 Feb 2024: Tweet

  After 14 years of Tory cuts to national and local govt the capacity for any new govt to spend £28Bn won’t exist at first @RachelReevesMP was right to commit £28Bn to green our economy and tackle climate change It must remain our aim but only as our financial situation allows https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1753110091543523510 [Source]

• 08 Dec 2022: Tweet

  RT @Miatsf: There is no time to waste. The climate emergency is happening now, and there is absolutely no excuse for continuing this danger… [Source]

• 11 Nov 2022: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: Rishi Sunak is a fossil fuel PM who had to be dragged to COP27. Keir Starmer will make Britain a clean energy superpower.… [Source]

• 11 Nov 2022: Tweet

  RT @Keir_Starmer: Britain should be leading the way to tackle the climate crisis. Visiting a wind farm in Grimsby, I spoke with industry l… [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

  Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 6 Jun 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  I welcome the fact that the Government have adopted Labour’s policy and introduced a windfall tax on these profits. They have had to be dragged kicking and screaming— [Interruption.] I am sorry; should I give way to the Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change?

  Full debate: North Sea Oil and Gas Producers: Investment Allowances

• 28 Jan 2022: Tweet

  RT @NadiaWhittomeMP: I'm thrilled to announced that @UKLabour is backing our Climate Education Bill! ???? Thank you to Shadow Climate Change… [Source]

• 13 Dec 2021: Vote

  Subsidy Control Bill — Schedule 1 - The subsidy control principles - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 1 Dec 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  No one doubts the Secretary of State’s commitment to delivering on climate change, but can he say what he intends to do over the next 12 months? The pledges that were made at COP26 must have been alarming to him, because with current pledges we are way off delivering on 1.5°, and the achievements that countries will make by 2030 will be way off target. What will he do to step up his activities as president for the next year to ensure that we get back on target to keep 1.5° alive?

  Full debate: Outcome of COP26

• 15 Nov 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  The Prime Minister has dodged the issue of turning the City of London into the capital of green investment. The UK represents 1% of global emissions, but the City of London’s corporations and financial institutions represent 15% of global emissions. Where is his plan to ensure they commit to 1.5° and zero emissions?

  Full debate: COP26

• 04 Nov 2021: Tweet

  Watch Sir David Attenborough's full COP26 speech https://t.co/gXJuvfDsC4 via @YouTube [Source]

• 03 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @UKLabour: The Conservatives are undermining the fight against the climate crisis. #COP26 https://t.co/o2GocSkAag [Source]

• 01 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: Having spent two years sleepwalking into COP26, the Prime Minister seems to have had a wake up call. Now it’s up to him… [Source]

• 01 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @UKLabour: The Conservatives’ https://t.co/iYCxhJKffR approach to #COP26 doesn't work. This is the decisive decade to tackle the climat… [Source]

• 31 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: COP26 cannot be a roll call of pre-packaged announcements; it must be a real negotiaton based on the science. Here are t… [Source]

• 31 Oct 2021: Tweet

  The last people we need in charge of COP26, which is so critical to tackling the threat to the world as we know it from climate change, is this bunch of useless, duplicitous, self serving Tories. https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1454794097554862080 [Source]

• 30 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @UKLabour: How can we trust Boris Johnson to protect our climate when he says one thing and does another? #COP26 https://t.co/tQXRgF3yRv [Source]

• 27 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @TanDhesi: With #COP26 imminent, #Budget2021 needed to show leadership on green, carbon-neutral transport infrastructure, including #rai… [Source]

• 21 Oct 2021: Tweet

  What does it take for the Tories to understand that tackling climate change means that the values of the old world no longer apply, even if you ever thought they should. https://twitter.com/Bill_Esterson/status/1451146392861396993 [Source]

• 19 Oct 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  I expected to hear more in the Minister’s statement about partnership with local government. Local authorities up and down the country are trying to innovate and to pilot schemes to decarbonise homes. My own local authority is investigating the possibility of using green open space to have a district ground source heat pump scheme that would engage with private homes in the area; that is engaging with the private sector as well. Without local government, the Minister’s strategy is not going to work, so what is he going to do further to engage local government?

  Full debate: Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings Strategy

• 29 Sep 2021: Tweet

  RT @UKLabour: If we are serious about climate change we need to upgrade our homes. Labour will fit out every home that needs it to make su… [Source]

• 24 Jun 2021: Tweet

  RT @AnnaMcMorrin: The @theCCCuk’s report on the UK’s progress on climate change is stark. ❌UK Government is failing to deliver on commitme… [Source]

• 07 Jun 2021: Vote

  Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill — New Clause 1 - Human Rights Abuses - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 26 May 2021: Vote

  Environment Bill — New Clause 24 - Prohibition on burning of peat in upland areas - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 21 May 2021: Tweet

  RT @PreetKGillMP: We are in a climate emergency. The UK must show leadership at home and abroad to galvanise global action. This year, as h… [Source]

• 31 Mar 2021: Tweet

  RT @PreetKGillMP: The climate crisis doesn't respect borders and to achieve progress towards reducing threats we must act together. My let… [Source]

• 9 Mar 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  The level of home ownership has gone down under the Tories at a time when borrowing is at an all-time consistent low. There are now 800,000 fewer people under the age of 45 who own their homes than in 2010. What we needed was a plan to decarbonise the existing housing stock. That would create jobs in every region. What we needed was a plan to build council housing and to upskill local workforces. Sadly, that requires thinking of which the Tories are simply not capable.

  Full debate: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

• 25 Jan 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  The covid pandemic, climate change and the state of the global finances make it imperative that we all work together for the common good. The solution is not to enfeeble workers or trample on their rights, yet companies such as British Gas and British Airways are telling their workers that they will be sacked and rehired on worse conditions. Those are hardly the British values that we want to promote globally.

  Full debate: Employment Rights: Government Plans

• 13 Jan 2021: Vote

  Financial Services Bill — Schedule 2 - Prudential regulation of FCA investment firms - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 12 Dec 2020: Tweet

  We need action not empty promises if we’re going to meet the threat of climate change. From individual choices to global strategies we need to put the threat of global warming foremost in our thinking https://twitter.com/mtpennycook/status/1337702172750966786 [Source]

• 26 Nov 2020: Tweet

  On this day in 2008, the Labour Government introduced the Climate Change Act. But the Conservatives are failing to meet the Act’s targets, threatening progress on tackling the climate emergency. They need to take action now – for all our futures. https://x.com/UKLabour/status/1331969242275717122/video/1 [Source]

• 16 Nov 2020: Vote

  Pension Schemes Bill [Lords] — Clause 124 - Climate change risk - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 10 Nov 2020: Tweet

  We will not achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 if the government continue to drag their feet. That talk the talk but they act in the same old way. https://twitter.com/AnnelieseDodds/status/1326079006576402432 [Source]

• 12 Oct 2020: Vote

  Agriculture Bill — After Clause 42 - Contribution of agriculture and associated land use to climate change targets - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 29 Sep 2020: Vote

  United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — New Clause 6 - Economic development: climate and nature emergency impact statement - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 10 Sep 2020: Tweet

  RT @AnnaMcMorrin: My #GreenShareBill returns to Parliament tomorrow. ✅Delivers on climate change ✅Empowers communities ✅Builds sustainabl… [Source]

• 7 Sep 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  The law has to apply to everyone equally, whether they are protesting about the environment or not, but designating Extinction Rebellion as an organised crime group is surely a step too far. What will the consequences be for genuine people who follow the protests of Extinction Rebellion and want to get involved in protesting against climate change—could they then be prosecuted under some new law for being involved in organised crime?

  Full debate: Birmingham Attacks and Extinction Rebellion Protests

• 19 Jul 2020: Tweet

  RT @DanLThorpe: So good to see these incredible new council homes ready to let in @Royal_Greenwich this week - all of which exceed net zero… [Source]

• 03 Jul 2020: Tweet

  RT @wesstreeting: The UK isn’t going far enough or fast enough to achieve net zero. In my first interview I’ve called on the Chancellor to… [Source]

• 12 Mar 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  13. Whether he plans to make road network national policy statements compatible with the UK’s commitments on climate change.

  Full debate: Road Network National Policy Statements: Climate Change Commitments

  Does not the decision on Heathrow demonstrate that the Government need to upgrade their statements in the light of climate change, otherwise there is a danger that their massive expansion of road building will get bogged down in legal challenges?

  Full debate: Road Network National Policy Statements: Climate Change Commitments

• 05 Feb 2020: Vote

  Transport - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 15 Jan 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  Again, we are hearing the right noises from the Government, but the action is not being followed through. The commitment to net zero trips off the tongue, but can we achieve it if we continue to fail to meet our environmental targets?

  Full debate: A Green Industrial Revolution

• 14 Nov 2017: Parliamentary Speech

  We need an explosion of charging points, so that we overcome competition for roadside parking spaces. It may be that we should talk to providers about how we use renewable energy. The top of a tower block could be a wonderful place for a wind turbine feeding into a power point downstairs for charging electric vehicles; perhaps we could make that accessible using the key fob to the tower block, so that the people from the block benefit. If those people are on low incomes, that brings back into play the whole social mobility issue that the Government have mentioned in regard to this Bill in the past.

  Full debate: Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill (Sixth sitting)

• 06 Sep 2016: Vote

  Finance Bill — VAT on Installation of Energy Saving Materials - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 03 May 2016: Vote

  Housing and Planning Bill — Neighbourhood right of appeal - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 14 Mar 2016: Vote

  Energy Bill [Lords] — New Clause 8 — Decarbonisation target range - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Mar 2016: Vote

  Energy Bill [Lords] — New Clause 3 — Carbon capture and storage strategy for the energy industry - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Dec 2015: Parliamentary Speech

  I congratulate the Secretary of State on her role in achieving this historic agreement. Does she accept that if the Government are to meet their commitment and show leadership in the world, they must change their approach to renewable energies, in particular to onshore wind?

  Full debate: Climate Change Agreement

• 19 Nov 2015: Parliamentary Speech

  The Minister said in earlier answers that she wants the renewable energy industry to be sustainable financially and commercially successful, but at the same time the Government have taken the subsidies away at a rate that has damaged the industry, and they have not applied that policy to nuclear. Surely she can see the damage being done and the inconsistency in the Government’s approach.

  Full debate: Topical Questions

• 26 Oct 2015: Vote

  Finance Bill (Ways and Means) (Payment of Corporation Tax) — Chapter 5 — Supplementary provisions - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 08 Sep 2015: Vote

  Bill Presented — Devolution (London) Bill — Clause 45 — CCL: removal of exemption for electricity from renewable sources - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 8 Jan 2015: Parliamentary Speech

  The Environmental Audit Committee says that our investment in renewable energy is growing at half the rate it needs to grow at to meet our future energy needs. What is the Secretary of State doing about that?

  Full debate: Low-carbon Economy

• 8 Jan 2014: Parliamentary Speech

  We have had another Liberal Democrat pledge. The Liberal Democrats have been at it again. One might have thought that they would learn their lesson over university tuition fees, but once the flashbulbs start popping they cannot hold themselves back. They have been photographed saying “Ban the FOBTs” at the Liberal Democrat conference. The Deputy Prime Minister, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Minister for Crime Prevention, the right hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (Michael Moore), the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson), the Minister for Schools, who is also a Minister of State in the Cabinet Office, and the hon. Member for Norwich South (Simon Wright) were all photographed backing anti-FOBT campaigners.

  Full debate: Fixed Odds Betting Terminals

• 04 Dec 2013: Vote

  Recall of Elected Representatives — Schedule 4 — Application and modification of emissions limit duty - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 10 — Direction to offer contract - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 1 — Decarbonisation - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 03 Jun 2013: Vote

  Communities and Local Government — Clause 42 — Duty not to exceed annual carbon dioxide emissions limit - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: Aye

• 19 Dec 2012: Vote

  Charities Act 2011 (Amendment) — Energy Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 11 Jun 2012: Vote

  Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Sep 2011: Vote

  Prime Minister — Clause 42 — Domestic energy efficient regulations - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Sep 2011: Vote

  Prime Minister — Clause 42 — Domestic energy efficient regulations - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Sep 2011: Vote

  Prime Minister — New Clause 1 — Energy efficiency aim - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 12 Oct 2010: Parliamentary Speech

  Has the Government Whips Office had cause to contact the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, following his comments last week? Has having the Liberal Democrats as part of the Government increased the costs of the Government Whips Office?

  Full debate: Whips Offices

• 9 Mar 2010: Parliamentary Speech

  According to Greenpeace, HFCs can be up to 20,000 times more damaging in terms of global warming than carbon dioxide. The most common gas used in supermarket refrigeration, HFC-404A, is 3,800 times more harmful than carbon dioxide. It is predicted that by 2020 HFC emissions will be equivalent to between 2 billion and 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, approximately four times the level of the United Kingdom’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. In 2005, stationary refrigeration units were the biggest source of F-gas emissions in the UK, and within that total, supermarkets account for more than half the emissions. Phasing out the HFCs in supermarkets has the potential to save more than 175 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalence between now and 2050. That is equivalent to a quarter of the UK’s annual carbon dioxide emissions.

  The potential impact of gases on global warming is averaged over 100 years, which reflects the extraordinarily long time that gases responsible for global warming remain in the atmosphere and add to the problem. HFCs do not last for 100 years. The evidence is that global warming is accelerating. Prompt action now to remove gases that are 4,000 times more harmful than carbon dioxide and do not linger as long as other harmful gases has the attraction of buying much-needed time for other greenhouse gas mitigating measures to take effect. I hope the Minister will accept that the time to act is now.

  Full debate: Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation