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Luke Akehurst's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Luke Akehurst

• 23 Jun 2026: Parliamentary Speech

  I would argue that additional capital funding, as has already been mentioned, could still come from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Programmes that are being rolled out by that Department are important. Although we could be forgiven for forgetting during this week’s heatwave, my North Durham constituency has a cold microclimate and lots of badly insulated homes, so cutting capital programmes such as those that address home insulation would harm my constituents. Similarly, investment in carbon capture and storage means that new jobs in the North sea would come on tap later, although I am in favour of the proposed new oil and gas fields—that is as near to rebelliousness as anyone will ever see me in the House, but we are in “freedom hall” in between Administrations. However, when compared with the immediate need to keep our country safe, it is hard to see why those projects ought to be prioritised in the short term over ensuring that our armed forces have the kit that they need to defend the nation from threats that are here or coming in the near future.

  Full debate: Defence Spending and Readiness

• 11 Dec 2025: Tweet

  RT @KiMcGuinness: 25,000 people in the north east already have a great job in green energy. In the next 10 years we’ll double that. Today,… [Source]

• 19 Nov 2025: Tweet

  I am delighted that Newker Primary School and St Bede’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College have been selected to receive funding for solar power from Great British Energy. It will mean these schools spend less of their money on energy bills, and more on the resources that our children rely on. This partnership between Great British Energy and the local schools will mean more money can be put back into the things that really matter. Through investment in green energy, this Labour gov [Source]

• 06 Nov 2025: Tweet

  RT @Keir_Starmer: I’m championing the interests of British people at COP30. Here, I’ll set out the economic opportunities of net zero: del… [Source]

• 19 Oct 2025: Tweet

  RT @itvnews: Government unveils plans to recruit 400,000 new workers for green energy sector https://www.itv.com/news/2025-10-19/government-unveils-plans-to-recruit-400000-new-workers-for-green-energy-sector [Source]

• 26 Sep 2025: Tweet

  RT @KiMcGuinness: We are making the North East the home of the green energy revolution ???? There is nowhere with better access the North Sea… [Source]

• 14 Jul 2025: Tweet

  RT @SteveReedMP: Reform’s refusal to protect British people from extreme heat and flooding as a result of climate change is unpatriotic. ht… [Source]

• 04 Dec 2024: Tweet

  RT @KiMcGuinness: Green energy will be as totemic to our North East future as ship building or mining was. I loved meeting @Siemens_Energy… [Source]

• 25 Sep 2024: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: Rachel’s expertise will be invaluable in supporting countries on the front line of the climate crisis. We are backing up… [Source]

• 05 Jul 2024: Tweet

  RT @10DowningStreet: Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP @Ed_Miliband as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero @energygovuk. https://t.co/b… [Source]

• 26 Mar 2024: Tweet

  @therewentharry Labour did a big announcement about green energy yesterday, assuming you mean that climate change is greatest threat, which we agree with. [Source]

• 21 Jul 2023: Tweet

  @AntacsB I'm not convinced ULEZ is "effective anti climate crisis politics". It looks like tokenistic tinkering at the edges that alienates people to me. We need more carrots and fewer sticks when it comes to getting people to change mode or emissions of transport. [Source]

• 04 Oct 2021: Tweet

  @mod_soc_dem I'm sure there are 7-9% who would vote Green if we had a different electoral system. I'm also sure that under FPTP it will get squeezed down to a max of 4%. And I think much of their increase is down to public concern about climate change, not left anti-Starmerism. [Source]

• 28 Apr 2021: Tweet

  If elected on 6 May 2021, I'll work to make the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill law to: 1. Limit global temperature rise to 1.5C 2. Restore our natural world 3. Involve citizens in the just transition to a zero-carbon society. @CEEBill_NOW https://www.ceebill.uk/candidate_sign_up_pledge?recruiter_id=17984 [Source]

• 03 Feb 2021: Tweet

  @OwenJones84 Everyone in the Labour Party knows the basics of what we want to do with power - redistribute wealth, return to well funded public services, tackle climate change, rebuild manufacturing, reduce poverty and inequality. Problem is that package isn't necessarily enough to win power. [Source]

• 31 May 2020: Tweet

  @bitvictim I can imagine ways of saving the environment that are compatible with markets and property rights. I can also imagine post capitalist economic systems that are crap at tackling climate change. It's human over consumption of resources that's the problem, not the economic system. [Source]

• 31 May 2020: Tweet

  @bitvictim Not sure you can blame the climate catastrophe solely on capitalism - communist countries belched out CO2 from state owned tractor and tank factories for 70 years and achieved their own environmental disasters like the Aral Sea shrinking. [Source]

• 25 Feb 2020: Tweet

  @sensiblehuman96 @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @IanMurrayMP @DrRosena @AngelaRayner @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan He seems to have a pretty robust record on the issue https://www.ianmurraymp.com/westminster/2019/11/05/climate-change-bulletin/ "Back in 2013, I presented a Private Members Bill which would have decarbonised the UK energy market by 2030. It has now been six years since I warned of the climate emergency" [Source]

• 25 Feb 2020: Tweet

  @sensiblehuman96 @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @IanMurrayMP @DrRosena @AngelaRayner @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan Keir pledge: "Put the Green New Deal at the heart of everything we do. There is no issue more important to our future than the climate emergency. A Clean Air Act to tackle pollution locally. Demand international action on climate rights." [Source]

• 02 Jan 2020: Tweet

  @MarkWallaceGlos @GeorgeFoulkes It's a very dry country getting drier w climate change. There is a lot of woodland, including eucalyptus which has flammable oil in it. Huge fires are usually extinguished by rainfall and it isn't due to rain in New South Wales for another month. [Source]

• 02 Jan 2020: Tweet

  @GeorgeFoulkes I was reading today that part of the problem is that climate change is making the Australian and California fire seasons merge with each other which is breaking down an old pattern of sharing firefighters and equipment. [Source]

• 02 Jan 2020: Tweet

  @patrickamon @SianySE @iamhamesh @JadeFrancesAzim You don't think politicians with gravitas would want to tackle climate change? [Source]

• 31 Dec 2019: Tweet

  A state strong enough to take the huge actions needed to tackle climate change and poverty but not so strong as to erode personal freedoms [Source]