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• 2 Jul 2026: Parliamentary Speech

  We also committed to scrapping the zero emission vehicle mandate to reinvigorate the car manufacturing industry in Britain. There should still be a transition to cleaner transport, but it must be driven by affordability, practicality and technological progress. It should not be dictated by unrealistic mandates or the weakening of domestic manufacturing. Again, a balance must be struck if we are to improve air quality.

  Full debate: Air Pollution

• 21 Apr 2026: Parliamentary Speech

  Before I outline in more detail my concerns about the Calderdale wind farm proposals, I want to be very clear that I am not against wind farm developments or renewable energy schemes. However, I am absolutely against wind farms being developed where they will have a huge impact on the environment, ecology, wildlife, heritage, flooding risk and the very carbon sequestration ability of our peat, which will be hugely negatively impacted.

  Peatland is a natural store of carbon, capturing and storing 26 times as much carbon as our forests in the UK. Almost all our UK peatlands have at least some blanket bog, with UK uplands containing around 15% of the blanket bog in the world. The Walshaw moor alone is made up of approximately 16,000 acres of it. Healthy peatlands will absorb and store carbon, and build carbon into the peat. However, if peatlands are damaged, which is unavoidable with huge infrastructure projects such as wind farms, it can release carbon back into the atmosphere, dramatically increasing carbon dioxide emissions. The amount of infrastructure required for the Calderdale wind farm is huge. It includes the foundations associated with each turbine, the complex road network that needs to be built across the peat so that each turbine can be fixed in place, the expansive base areas next to each turbine, the vast cabling routes that need to be buried underneath the peat, the man-made drainage cut-outs that need to be installed, the sub-stations, the weather monitoring and the fencing—I could go on. All of that will have a deeply damaging impact on our protected peatland.

  I know that the developers and those supporting the Calderdale wind farm proposals like to say that the benefits of producing renewable energy outweigh the carbon loss caused by the development, but the justifications they have offered have been extremely poor. In fact, Professor Richard Lindsay, a world-leading expert on peatland ecosystems, who I spoke to just last week, has described those making this argument as

  Full debate: Wind Farms: Protected Peatland

  My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He makes an excellent point: the developers have failed to ascertain that the positives of the project outweigh its negative impacts, including the impact on the ability of the peatland to sequester and store carbon. That is before even considering all the negative impacts on highways, the impacts of the infrastructure that has to be developed and the impact on local communities. The renewable energy scheme will be incredibly detrimental; the peatland will hold more carbon. That is why I am firmly opposed to the development.

  Full debate: Wind Farms: Protected Peatland

  Renewable energy could be an essential part of our future, but not like this—not here, and not at the cost of everything the Brontë country represents. This scheme must be stopped.

  Full debate: Wind Farms: Protected Peatland

  I know that on 30 March the hon. Member wrote to the Secretary of State asking for clarity on the guidance associated with the national policy statement for renewable energy infrastructure, EN-3, and its relationship with peatlands. I hear him speak about the importance of protecting peat, but I am less certain about what his position is on the Calderdale wind farm. Is he for or against the development of the Calderdale wind farm in his constituency?

  Full debate: Wind Farms: Protected Peatland

  My third point is that as far as I can see, my neighbouring Members of Parliament have not put forward a position on the Floor of the House on whether they will join me to campaign as strongly as we can against this application. Concerns have been raised, but there is no formal position. It is deeply worrying that some of the Labour Members of Parliament I wrote to—I gave plenty of notice—did not feel it was worth turning up to this debate. It is clear that this Government’s policy in pursuit of net zero makes absolutely net zero sense.

  Full debate: Wind Farms: Protected Peatland

• 14 Apr 2026: Parliamentary Speech

  I have read the land use framework. The Minister has hit the nail on the head, because its sole beneficiary is his Department—the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero—and not our farmers or our food security. Can he specifically address the issue of land quality? If we are putting ground-mounted solar on agricultural land, will he at least recognise that that will degrade the quality of the soil health, given the amount of time that those solar panels will be in situ?

  Full debate: Ground-mounted Solar Panels: Alternatives

• 24 Mar 2026: Parliamentary Speech

  Well, it has not been built yet. The proposal will come before the Energy Secretary, because he removed the onshore wind farm moratorium that the Conservative Government put in place. This is a development that I am staunchly opposed to. Why? It is because it is due to be built on precious peatland, which in a good year has a millimetre of growth. Despite that, the application coming before us is for a wind farm development, with deep foundations, on protected peatland. Road infrastructure is going to be built, wiring infrastructure is going to be built, and there will be consequences for flooding in neighbouring constituencies. I am staunchly against the project, which is why I cannot for the life of me understand why this Labour Government, alongside the Green party, are determined to roll out renewable energy schemes that have a hugely detrimental impact on our environment.

  Full debate: Oil and Gas

  The narrative that continues to come from those on the Government Benches is that we must have a roll-out of more renewable energy, without necessarily looking at the negative consequences on the environment. A development of the size that is being proposed on the outskirts of my constituency will not be carbon neutral, given the amount of energy that is needed to build the wind turbines and the negative impact on the carbon sequestration of the peatland. That is why I am firmly opposed to the Calderdale wind farm, and I 100% back the motion before this House.

  Full debate: Oil and Gas

• 26 Jan 2026: Tweet

  RT @VictoriaAtkins: Labour’s choices will scar our landscapes and nature forever. Ed Miliband’s unrealistic net zero targets will industri… [Source]

• 9 Dec 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The Environment Agency estimates that, driven by population growth and climate change, there will be a shortfall of nearly 5 billion litres of water a day in this country by 2055—the equivalent of a third of current public consumption. Water scarcity is of course important when we consider drinking water, but there are also dangerous knock-on effects for the environment and for food production, as has rightly been said. Over-abstraction of stretched water sources is having a huge impact on vital habitats such as chalk streams; this year alone, record-breaking droughts have cost arable farmers approximately £800 million in lost production. This was the second-worst harvest on record, and our horticultural industry has been severely impacted.

  Full debate: Water Scarcity

• 18 Nov 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  T7. The Minister will know that our peatlands are a vital store of carbon, storing 26 times more carbon than UK forests. Would he therefore agree that green energy projects built on peatland must prove that they will mitigate more carbon than they will release through construction and disturbance of the underlying peat? Will he commit to refuse any nationally significant infrastructure project that fails that test?

  Full debate: Topical Questions

• 18 Nov 2025: Tweet

  Our peatlands store 26 times more carbon than UK forests. Building wind farms on them in the name of net-zero therefore makes net-zero sense. Unfortunately - still no sign of a clear position on this from our Labour government???? I will not support the development of the Calderdale Wind Farm. [Source]

• 17 Jul 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  In a few weeks’ time, more than 500 Kate Bush fans from up and down the UK and across the world will descend on to the moors near Haworth for what is billed as the “The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever”. This year, the mass wuther is doubling up as a protest against environmentally damaging proposals to place a huge onshore wind farm at the very heart of Brontë country, damaging protected peatland. I do not know whether the Leader of the House is a Kate Bush fan, but will she consider joining the hundreds on the moors for “The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever”, and does she agree with me, climate experts, nature organisations and the Brontë Society that destroying carbon-rich peatland in the name of net zero makes net zero sense?

  Full debate: Business of the House

• 1 Jul 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  This week, the 19% tariff on imports of US ethanol falls to zero through the 1.4 billion litre quota negotiated by this Labour Government, which represents the size of the UK’s entire ethanol market. That will have a hugely damaging impact on our rural economy, UK jobs and the NHS, with Government effectively offshoring the benefits of ethanol production and its by-products to the US. What conversations are the Chancellor and her team having with this green energy sector, in which a huge number of jobs are now at stake in Teesside and Hull?

  Full debate: Clean Energy: Funding

• 09 May 2025: Tweet

  You couldn’t make it up???? Just weeks ago, Labour DEFRA Ministers launched a consultation to protect our nation’s ancient and irreplaceable peatlands, recognising their “vital” role in storing carbon and preventing flooding. But what Labour aren’t telling you is that over at Ed Miliband’s Net Zero department, they are fast-tracking plans to destroy over 2,000 hectares of peatland on the edge of historic Brontë Country, one of the most beautiful and carbon-rich landscapes in the U [Source]

• 8 May 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  Our peatlands store 26 times more carbon than forests. They improve water quality and protect communities up and down the UK from flooding. The Nature Minister rightly called peatlands our “country’s Amazon rainforest” and launched a consultation to protect them. She is right, because once they have been destroyed, they can never be replaced. At the very same time, the Energy Secretary plans to rip up 2,000 hectares of protected peatland on historic land in West Yorkshire for a vast wind farm development, opening up communities to flooding and destroying the peatlands that Labour says it wants to protect. How can the Government claim to be protecting our irreplaceable peatlands when the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is actively considering destroying one of our most environmentally important landscapes in the country?

  Full debate: Flooding: Protecting Vulnerable Communities

• 3 Apr 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  In new regulations announced late last year, the Government said that incineration plants would be granted licences only if they can demonstrate that they are reducing landfill. That is a rather low threshold, as almost any waste heading to an incinerator would otherwise be landfilled. More importantly, that criterion misses the key point that methane emissions from landfill will simply be replaced with carbon emissions from waste incineration. In fact, greenhouse gases from incinerators are more intense, as landfill releases its carbon much more slowly than incineration plants. I fear that this landfill criterion is merely an attempt by this Government to give a veneer of environmentally friendly credibility to a policy that actually represents a failure to tackle the broader waste challenge.

  At the same time, Labour has claimed that it has introduced tough new rules to clean up incineration and is considering introducing a carbon tax on councils that incinerate. That reveals a gaping hole in the Government’s thinking. I ask the Minister: will the Government’s changes to licensing be effective in reducing pollution? If so, why tax cash-strapped councils—or does the tax reveal that the Government expect their licensing policy to fail and are hoping to deter the use of incinerators as a result? Incinerators are dirty and as a result should be taxed as we tax landfill, but clearly a long-term strategy should be adopted to phase out incineration. Why will the Government not commit to that vision?

  Full debate: Waste Incinerators

• 26 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  At the same time that the Government have cut the two primary sources of support for farmers, budgetary changes have also had a huge impact on the wider cash-flow position of farm businesses. The introduction of the double cab pick-up tax punishes family farmers for using one vehicle for both personal and business use; perhaps the Minister would prefer that they owned two. The fertiliser carbon tax is likely to come down the line, and wider sources indicate that it is likely to push the price of a tonne of fertiliser up by £50. That is a clear political choice to push net zero no matter the cost to farming businesses and food prices. The changes to employers’ national insurance have hiked up the average cost of a worker by £900. Far from reducing energy prices by £300, the Government are about to oversee a hike in the energy price cap of about 6.4%.

  Full debate: Draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025

• 3 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Only a month ago, we were shocked to hear plans to accelerate the phase-out of direct payments. Yet, just last week, we heard the decision by the Government to remove capital grants. How on earth is a farming business able to forecast its plans with certainty? There are also the increased direct costs expected, such as the carbon tax on fertiliser, which is estimated to increase the cost of fertiliser by £50 a tonne and will undoubtedly have a direct impact on the cost of food and consequentially inflate food prices. Then, in the Budget, we heard of the increase in employers’ national insurance, coupled with the reduction in the associated threshold, an increase in the minimum wage, the double cab pickup tax—I could go on.

  Full debate: Family Farming in Devon

• 11 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  We have heard that the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero is ploughing ahead with his plans to replace productive agricultural land with solar panels, and to replace protected moorlands with wind turbines—all against the consent of local people. The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government is taking away from local people the power to decide how they would like to see their rural communities expand, while providing no commitment whatsoever to improve services and infrastructure alongside any increased demand. The Secretary of State for Transport is scrapping the £2 bus cap, which the previous Government introduced as a vital part of the rural transport plan. Labour’s change leaves many people in remote rural communities paying even more to get to work or to visit friends and loved ones.

  Full debate: Rural Affairs

• 20 Jun 2024: Tweet

  RT @ClaireCoutinho: Another low for Just Stop Oil. If they really cared about climate change, they should put down the spray paint and tra… [Source]

• 9 May 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  There is no better champion than my hon. Friend on the challenge of coastal erosion. The Environment Agency is developing a new national flood risk assessment and an updated coastal erosion risk map to improve how we access flood risk information and communicate it to our communities. Those new datasets and maps will include the potential impact of climate change on flood risk and coastal erosion, and will help to inform how we better protect homes, businesses, farmland and infrastructure along our coastal communities.

  Full debate: Coastal Defences

• 17 Apr 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Climate change means that the number of people at risk from flooding is, unfortunately, likely to grow. The storms we experienced over the autumn and winter brought that into sharp focus, as more than 5,000 properties were flooded. More importantly, however, nearly a quarter of a million—241,000—properties were protected as a result of the continued investment in flood defences. The Government are acting to drive down flood risk from every angle. Our long-term policy statement published in 2020 sets out our

  Full debate: Flood Recovery Framework

• 16 Apr 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  There will always be some waste that cannot be prevented. The hierarchy prefers disposal of that waste through anaerobic digestion rather than landfill, because of its recognised negative impacts on the environment. Whatever preventative and reduction actions are taken, some food waste will arise. Anaerobic digestion is the Government’s preferred option for recycling food that eventually ends up as waste. Treating food waste through anaerobic digestion removes it from the residual waste stream, where it can end up in landfill and create harmful greenhouse gases.

  Full debate: Food Waste and Food Distribution

• 21 Mar 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Many Members asked about the land use framework. It will be published this year, but I want to reiterate that the reason why it has not been published to date is that the Secretary of State and his ministerial team have been very keen to make sure that it relates to enhancing our food production and making sure that food security is at its very core. When we are balancing the use of land as a finite resource that is being pulled in all different directions—for energy security, biodiversity offsetting, net zero targets, housing, infrastructure—we need to make sure that food security is considered at the heart of it.

  Full debate: Food Security

• 19 Mar 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome referred to the land use framework. I reassure her that the Secretary of State wants to ensure that food productivity is at the heart of the land use framework, which is why we are scrutinising it before it is released. Not only does it have to cover energy security, biodiversity offsetting, net zero and other measures, but we want to ensure that food security is at the heart of it before it is released. Our food security is strong, but we are not taking it for granted; we will continue to work across the supply chain to maintain and enhance it.

  Full debate: UK Food Security

• 18 Mar 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  It is also important that we build homes in rural areas where communities want them and provide those homes with affordable energy. That is why the commitment to include a rural exception site policy in the new national planning policy framework, published in December 2023, is so important. The “Connections Action Plan” outlines how the Government plan for transmission connection dates for viable, net zero-aligned projects to be on average no more than six months beyond the date requested by the customer, and the Government consulted last year on providing community benefits for those near transmission infrastructure. That consultation has closed, and guidance will be provided this year. Improving energy efficiency is also key to reducing costs in rural areas, and under the home upgrade grant 64% of measures installed by the scheme have been delivered by local authorities classified as rural. The second phase of the grant has allocated up to £378 million in grants ringfenced for rural local authorities.

  Full debate: Delivering Rural Opportunity: Report

• 4 Mar 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The Government are committed to continuing to produce at least 60% of the food that we eat in the UK, and have ambitions to produce more food domestically. We will continue action where it matters, to support farming businesses, so that they grow and thrive. Farming contributes a staggering £127 billion to the economy, and we want to enhance and secure nature while ensuring food production. We have a key focus on driving productivity in the sector, as food security must always be at the forefront of our mind. As has been mentioned, we recognise that it is vital to balance the priorities of protecting food security, restoring biodiversity and tackling climate change, while, of course, ensuring that farming is profitable and productive, so that farming businesses can thrive, and so that farming continues to attract the very best and the brightest.

  Full debate: Farming

• 23 Jan 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The regulations were seen as a game changer in protecting peat bog areas. They limited the practice of burning on protected blanket bog, except when a licence has been granted for reasons such as wildfire mitigation or supporting peatland restoration. The regulations are a crucial step forward in meeting the Government’s nature and climate change mitigation and adaptation targets, including the legally binding commitments to reach net zero carbon emissions. Data from the moorland change map suggests a decline in burning and cutting on moorland areas since the introduction of these regulations in 2021. DEFRA, supported by Natural England, has been swift to act on breaches of these regulations, and it secured two successful prosecutions last year. The low numbers of alleged offences and successful prosecutions show that compliance with the regulations is high and that stakeholders have been receptive.

  Full debate: Heather Burning on Peatlands

  The hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam, referred to flooding and peat restoration partnerships. Such partnerships have proved highly effective, and they are an example of stakeholders working together to restore peatland. In the north of England alone, almost 45,000 acres of moorland have been repaired and re-vegetated. I am aware that in the North Pennines area of outstanding national beauty, work to block agricultural grains through an agri-environmental stewardship scheme and a land manager working closely with Natural England has resulted in the North Pennines AONB peatland programme being awarded a climate change award at the County Durham environmental awards in 2015.

  Full debate: Heather Burning on Peatlands

  We need to drive down emissions across all sectors to achieve our targets, and we have set out the comprehensive and wide-ranging action that we are taking to clean up our air in the environmental improvement plan, which came into effect last year. That includes improving our regulatory framework for industry to drive innovation and tackle our air quality and net zero goals hand in hand. The continued support to local authorities, including through our £883-million nitrogen dioxide programme, will certainly help with that. That has included funding for the hon. Lady’s constituency to support the delivery of the Sheffield clean air zone and other measures to tackle NO 2 exceedances.

  Full debate: Heather Burning on Peatlands

• 21 Jan 2024: Tweet

  Together at #GFFA ???????? Agri Minister Claudia Müller, M. Nieuwkoop of @WorldBank & I co-hosted global forum with other countries on food production & system resilience. As climate change & other pressures impact supply chains - sharing knowledge, initiatives & challenges is vital. https://twitter.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1749040340722405569/photo/1 [Source]

• 21 Jan 2024: Tweet

  ???????? Fantastic to meet with @SyngentaGroup at #GFFA. Great to discuss importance of agri innovation & tech, - and use of regenerative agriculture to improve soil, deliver increased productivity & high-quality food, while helping fight climate change & restoring lost biodiversity. https://twitter.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1749030210974965779/photo/1 [Source]

• 8 Jan 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Back in 2010, 40% of all energy in this country was produced from coal; now, we are at 1%. The Government are taking the reduction of emissions incredibly seriously. We were the first major economy to set a net zero target in law, and we cut our emissions by 48% between 1990 and 2021. Coupled with that, we are taking more proactive measures, including by doubling the amount of funding for improving our flood-resilience programmes from £2.6 billion to £5.2 billion, to better protect more frequently flooded communities, businesses and homeowners.

  Full debate: Storm Henk

• 19 Dec 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  I recognise the challenges that many of my hon. Friends’ constituents—households and businesses—face, and, of course, this is deeply concerning to all who experience coastal flooding and erosion events. Events like the storms this autumn put into focus the need for many of us to adapt to the threats that we face from climate change and the resulting impacts, such as coastal erosion. I understand the impact that those experiences have on people, whether that is through damage to or loss of property or through the impact on their businesses and livelihoods and how that can affect their wellbeing.

  As climate change leads to sea level rise and more extreme rainfall, the number of people who are at risk from flooding and coastal erosion is, unfortunately, likely to grow. That is why it is absolutely important that we have debates such as this, where specific cases can be raised, in addition to the conversations that my Department and I are involved in.

  As part of our commitment to ensuring that the country is resilient to climate change, including flooding and coastal erosion, we are now two years into a significant package of investment—£5.2 billion has been specifically allocated to flood and coastal erosion for a six-year investment programme. In that time, we have already invested £1.5 billion to better protect more than 67,000 homes and businesses in England alone. That takes the total number of properties protected to more than 380,000 since 2015, and more than 600,000 since 2010. That £5.2 billion of investment is double the £2.6 billion investment from the previous funding round, which ran from 2015 to 2021.

  My hon. Friend made the point that green finance, flooding and climate change are split between portfolios. However, I want to reassure him that all Ministers in the Department work closely together. There is no silo mentality in DEFRA.

  Full debate: Coastal Erosion: Suffolk and Norfolk

• 13 Dec 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  As climate change leads to rising sea levels and more extreme rainfall, the number of people at risk from flooding and coastal erosion continues to grow. That is why this Government are acting now to drive down flood risk from every angle. Given that we have some time, I want to set out what the Government are doing at a national level, and then I will come back to some of the specifics that my hon. Friend raised.

  Full debate: Flooding: River Severn Catchment Area

• 12 Dec 2023: Tweet

  RT @DefraGovUK: Climate smart science and technology offers solutions and shapes innovation. At the #COP28 Tech and Innovation Hub, @Stev… [Source]

• 10 Dec 2023: Tweet

  RT @SteveBarclay: A busy Nature Day at #COP28 yesterday & a pleasure to speak about the important role nature plays in tackling climate cha… [Source]

• 7 Dec 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  PM 2.5 is the most harmful pollutant for human health. Our action to date on transport, industrial and domestic sources has seen PM 2.5 fall by 10% since 2010. This year, we went further by setting new targets to drive down PM 2.5 concentrates, and the Government will deliver on our air quality and net zero goals by supporting businesses to innovate.

  Full debate: Air Pollution

• 21 Sep 2023: Tweet

  RT @ClaireCoutinho: The Prime Minister has set out a pragmatic approach to Net Zero which ensures a just transition for hardworking familie… [Source]

• 20 Sep 2023: Tweet

  RT @RishiSunak: We're changing the way we reach Net Zero by 2050 to ease the burden on working people. Our new approach will be pragmatic,… [Source]

• 31 Aug 2023: Tweet

  RT @ClaireCoutinho: I am delighted to have been appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. I will work with the Prime… [Source]

• 22 Apr 2023: Tweet

  RT @GillianKeegan: The challenge of climate change can seem overwhelming. This week I saw the desire, passion and belief to make a real dif… [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

  Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 19 Jul 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  2. What steps his Department is taking to help the NHS achieve net zero.

  Full debate: Net Zero

  The NHS plays a key role in our national attempts to achieve net zero. I was therefore delighted to see the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust submit its plans for a new Airedale Hospital in my constituency. Those plans of course deal with the severe structural risk associated with aerated concrete, but they are also designed to create Europe’s first ever carbon neutral hospital. Does my hon. Friend agree that these are extremely exciting plans and that they are another reason why we should try to achieve a new Airedale Hospital in my constituency?

  Full debate: Net Zero

• 26 Apr 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  Will my hon. Friend confirm that, as the UK holds the COP presidency, the Government are working to support India’s energy transition away from imported oil and towards a more sustainable energy source, to address both energy security and climate change?

  Full debate: Prime Minister’s Visit to India

• 2 Mar 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  4. What progress he plans to make in tackling climate change during his COP26 presidency.

  Full debate: COP26 Presidency: Priorities

  At a local level across Keighley and Ilkley we have experienced the real impacts of climate change, including flooding in Utley, a landslide in Riddlesden, and severe water issues along Redcar Lane in Steeton. As we look to build on the deal achieved at COP26 last year, how will we work with international partners to make real progress on adapting to the damaging effects of climate change?

  Full debate: COP26 Presidency: Priorities

• 20 Dec 2021: Tweet

  Levelling up has a key role to play in tackling climate change and helping ???????? get to #NetZero. Really enjoyed taking part in a Levelling Up Goals seminar with @JustineGreening, @LordWalney and Kerry Dryburgh from @bp_UK to talk about how, chaired by the brilliant @IainDale ???? https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1473003018278912001/video/1 [Source]

• 17 Dec 2021: Tweet

  RT @ParkwoodSch: Year 6 @ParkwoodSch enjoyed a climate conference with Keighley MP Robbie Moore @_RobbieMoore this week, all the way from… [Source]

• 13 Dec 2021: Vote

  Subsidy Control Bill — Schedule 1 - The subsidy control principles - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 11 Nov 2021: Tweet

  ???? Great to attend @COP26 to meet climate experts, green tech entrepreneurs, energy suppliers, green finance providers, food & farming specialists & global representatives for really interesting discussions about how we can all play our role in reducing carbon emissions. https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1458902805624893450/photo/1 [Source]

• 11 Nov 2021: Tweet

  Brilliant day @COP26 in Glasgow UK ???????? is leading way on climate change, but global leaders must do more if we are to protect our planet. Good to speak about ???? Unlocking hydrogen’s potential ???? Green food chain ???? Carbon Capture tech #TogetherForOurPlanet @Climate_Action_ https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1458863615105282057/video/1 [Source]

• 11 Nov 2021: Tweet

  Excellent discussion at @COP26 organised by @Climate_Action_ on how we can unlock carbon capture technology and #hydrogen infrastructure to decarbonise industry and transport - huge opportunities lie ahead for all of us across West Yorkshire. #ClimateAction ???? https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1458781108703793152/photo/1 [Source]

• 11 Nov 2021: Tweet

  Great points made by panel @COP26; ‘Collaboration.. absolutely, but collective action is key.’ ‘Got to be much better distribution of margins throughout food production system, so farmers get their fair share to be better equipped financially to help drive environmental change’ https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1458749687545176067/photo/1 [Source]

• 11 Nov 2021: Tweet

  Great start to the day at @COP26 attending the #AgriFood Summit listening to @stefanosfotiou of the Food & Agriculture Organisation of United Nations discussing agri land use systems, farming subsides, sustainable food production. @Climate_Action_ @NFUtweets https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1458731608283004938/photo/1 [Source]

• 10 Nov 2021: Tweet

  @BaconBantam @COP26 ???????? [Source]

• 10 Nov 2021: Tweet

  ???? Looking forward to attending @COP26 tomorrow taking part in the Hydrogen Transition Summit and the Agri-Food Summit organised by #ClimateAction. [Source]

• 3 Nov 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  A full appraisal recommended that the most cost-effective and future-proofed solution would be a new Airedale hospital on the grounds already owned by the trust. Indeed, the trust owns 43 acres of land and can build a new hospital while keeping existing operations until a transfer to the new build. The plans have a strong environmental case and outline the Airedale trust’s vision to be Europe’s first carbon-neutral and fully digitally enabled hospital, with the capability to generate renewable energy on site.

  Full debate: Hospital Building Programme

• 03 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @Bradford_TandA: This week's MP's column comes from @_RobbieMoore where he discusses why #COP26 is an important moment ⬇️ https://t.co/… [Source]

• 02 Nov 2021: Tweet

  A huge, welcome step forward in protecting forests across the world. #COP26 ???????????????????? https://t.co/uyP67pp9Aq [Source]

• 31 Oct 2021: Tweet

  The eyes of the world are on ???????? as #COP26 kicks off in Glasgow. A huge opportunity for the world to come together and agree global action on climate change. This is what the @Conservatives government is doing to build back greener. ???????? @AlokSharma https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1454761255860936705/video/1 [Source]

• 21 Oct 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  May I use this opportunity to welcome my right hon. Friend to her place? I wish her all success, and I welcome this statement. Many of my constituents are deeply concerned about climate change. Could the Secretary of State outline how this new free trade agreement will promote our efforts to tackle climate change as well as growing our respective economies?

  Full debate: Free Trade Agreement: New Zealand

• 21 Oct 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  It gives me enormous pleasure to speak in this place before an event of such magnitude. The agenda and discussions at the COP26 summit in just a couple of weeks’ time will be centred, quite rightly, around global vision, yet the outcomes that I believe we all want to see, and must enact, have to be at a local level across every city, town, village and community across our country.

  I would like to draw the House’s attention, not for the first time in this place, to what is going on in my constituency, which I and all my constituents are so passionate about. We want to ensure that we leave this planet in a much better state than we found it for the next generation. I think of the great work that has been done on cleaning up the River Wharfe in my constituency, protecting our precious green open spaces and lobbying hard against the Aire valley incinerator, which I have spoken about many a time in this place. We have been able to make great progress on these challenges, which I face locally, but there are also many great initiatives that are happening. I pay credit to Climate Action Ilkley and businesses such as Airedale Springs, which has already taken great measures, putting solar panels on the business’s buildings so that they can provide green energy to support what it is doing.

  The Government have also given their 10-point plan an airing with respect to how we will get the green industrial revolution moving, but our work in the fight against climate change cannot be contained to these shores. That is why the Government must use the COP26 presidency to get other countries in line with our environmental objectives. They have already made great progress through the G7 summit in Cornwall earlier this year under the leadership of the Prime Minister.

  Full debate: COP26: Limiting Global Temperature Rises

  As a result of the leadership shown by our Prime Minister at the G7, we have managed to get a commitment to limiting the global rise in temperature to 1.5°, achieving net zero and supporting developing countries to be greener. At COP26, the Government need to take a tougher stance on ensuring that other countries play their part in achieving those objectives, but not be complicit in doing so.

  Full debate: COP26: Limiting Global Temperature Rises

• 05 Oct 2021: Tweet

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• 21 Sep 2021: Tweet

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• 15 Jun 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  These are exciting plans, with a strong environmental case. The Airedale trust’s vision is to create Europe’s first carbon-neutral and fully digitally enabled hospital, with the capabilities to generate renewable energy on site. The financial, environmental and practical case for a new Airedale hospital is clear for all to see, and I am delighted to invite the Minister to come and join me, chief executive Brendan Brown and his brilliant team for a visit to the Airedale, so that we can continue our discussions and get some concrete commitment from him that a new rebuild is the way forward.

  Full debate: New Airedale Hospital

• 13 Jun 2021: Tweet

  RT @BorisJohnson: As Sir David Attenborough says, we have the skills to tackle climate change, but we need the global will. That’s why I’m… [Source]

• 07 Jun 2021: Vote

  Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill — New Clause 1 - Human Rights Abuses - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 26 May 2021: Vote

  Environment Bill — New Clause 24 - Prohibition on burning of peat in upland areas - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 17 May 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  As the Pensions Minister knows from when we visited Airedale Springs together last September, climate change is a major concern for many constituents of mine across Keighley and Ilkley. With COP26 now less than six months away, will my hon. Friend update the House on the progress the Government are making to ensure that pensions play their part in tackling climate change so that we can build back greener from the pandemic?

  Full debate: Topical Questions

• 21 Mar 2021: Tweet

  As trees grow they pull in CO2 & convert into carbohydrates, which they use to grow. Tree planting is great way to help tackle our #ClimateChange crisis. That’s why, on my family farm, we have planted over 8,000 native trees - & are still planting more ???????? #WorldForestDay https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1373645435848552448/photo/1 [Source]

• 17 Feb 2021: Tweet

  RT @AlokSharma_RDG: Brilliant to speak to @BillGates this evening about how we can take actions to fight climate change Delighted by his s… [Source]

• 13 Jan 2021: Vote

  Financial Services Bill — Schedule 2 - Prudential regulation of FCA investment firms - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 12 Jan 2021: Tweet

  RT @COP26: Last year ???????? and countries from around the ???? endorsed the #LeadersPledge4Nature. Today UK PM @BorisJohnson will join the #OnePl… [Source]

• 11 Jan 2021: Tweet

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• 09 Jan 2021: Tweet

  RT @COP26: Today we published our #COP26 Priorities for Public Finance. ???? This reflects key challenges raised during extensive consultatio… [Source]

• 04 Jan 2021: Tweet

  RT @COP26: ???? ???? ???? ???????? We are at a turning point for our planet. As we recover from #coronavirus, it is vital that we build back greener an… [Source]

• 08 Dec 2020: Vote

  Delegated Legislation — Financial Assistance to Industry - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: Aye

• 18 Nov 2020: Tweet

  We all need to play our part to tackle #climatechange & getting to #NetZero. The @GOVUK #GreenHomesGrant scheme is ????, but it could go further???? 1️⃣ More eligible improvements. 2️⃣ More local installers. 3️⃣ More local uptake. I have ???? to @AlokSharma_RDG & @beisgovuk ⬇️ https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1329015561188237312/video/1 [Source]

• 16 Nov 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  As my hon. Friend the Minister has said, the Bill makes our pensions safer, better and greener. I will focus my contribution today on that final point: pension policy becoming greener. Tackling climate change and getting to net zero is undoubtedly one of the country’s biggest challenges, and it is a top priority for me. The clock is ticking, and we all need to take action, from big corporates right down to the actions we take as individuals.

  Our pension funds have trillions of pounds invested in assets under management, and that pension power can help us work towards achieving net zero, because when someone saves money into pensions, the pension provider takes the money and invests it in order to secure a long-term return for retirement. When those savings are in sustainable and ethical investments, such as businesses adopting similar practices to Airedale Springs, the pension can play its part by helping not only with retirement but with climate change.

  The changes legislated for through the Bill open up a world of possibilities for our pensions to be invested in new and innovative technologies for the future, such as wind power, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage—technologies that help create jobs and aid the transition towards net zero. The Bill means that for the first time, pension schemes will be able to be required to take the Government’s net zero targets into account, as well as the goals of the Paris climate agreement.

  Full debate: Pension Schemes Bill [Lords]

• 16 Nov 2020: Vote

  Pension Schemes Bill [Lords] — Clause 124 - Climate change risk - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 15 Nov 2020: Tweet

  We all need to play our part in tackling climate change and getting to #NetZero. The gov’t Green Homes Grant scheme is fantastic, but it could go much further ???????? 1️⃣ More eligible improvements. 2️⃣ More local installers. 3️⃣ Bradford should apply for more funding. https://x.com/_RobbieMoore/status/1328078782549413888/video/1 [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: Aye

• 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: No

• 10 Sep 2020: Tweet

  RT @GuyOpperman: Final stop in Yorkshire with @_RobbieMoore at @AiredaleSprings. ⚡ They are helping ???????? get to #NetZero with a roof covere… [Source]

• 31 Aug 2020: Tweet

  RT @CommonsEFRA: How do we make communities resilient to flooding as climate change makes severe weather more common? Tomorrow afternoon w… [Source]

• 12 Mar 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  The only other thing I would add to that in this broader, more holistic approach to tackling air pollution is the impact from European countries, which the Minister mentioned. As we get further along the line and reduce air pollution more, that will become an increasing factor on air pollution in the UK. We have the opportunity of COP 26 later this year—a real marker in the sand whereby the Government can take leadership and start to bring other countries along with it in relation to air pollution.

  Full debate: Environment Bill (Third sitting)

• 10 Mar 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  Q Many local authorities have declared climate emergencies. How will the Bill help local authorities to address those self-declared climate emergencies?

  Mayor Glanville: Local authorities across the country from Hackney to Hull have declared climate emergencies. The Local Government Association itself has. Local authorities are doing a lot of work outside the scope of the Bill on energy, and there is some detailed work going on at the LGA. The challenge with air pollution and some of the aspirations in the Bill is that many of the elements are reliant on industry and consumer change. There is a lot of work on clean air zones in local government. There is experimentation in places around Nottingham on levying parking charges in workplaces. Wider investment in sustainable and public transport is needed to ensure that our aspirations on air pollution can be met.

  We are very keen, as local government, to ensure that we do our part in responding to the climate emergency. There are some of those upstream, “producer pays” principles around waste and recycling—for example, the car industry switching to a more electric fleet, and I know there have been announcements on bus funding—but if we are talking about the types of shift that we are going to need in consumer behaviour in the way that we travel, further work will need to be done together on that.

  Full debate: Environment Bill (Second sitting)

  Alan Law: Yes, to be absolutely clear, not all wildlife will be in a nature recovery network or a nature recovery strategy, but what we are looking for in the nature recovery network and local expressions of those plans are the skeleton and vital organs of a healthy organism. We would still expect, of course, to see wildlife and other environmental features beyond that, outwith the nature recovery network itself, but we are trying to design something on a scale that can be healthy and resilient—that can deal with pressures, variation, pollution, climate change and so on—and that cannot be done on a small scale on its own. However, that is not at all to say that we are designing everything into this network and that everything outside the network does not need to be worried about.

  We are really strong supporters of the Bill, but if there is one thing that is probably missing from it in comparison with what is in the 25-year environment plan, it is any reference to heritage. I mention that now because for me it is part of thinking about land issues in the round and not just looking at nature, climate change or other things. Heritage is the sixth goal in the 25-year environment plan, but it does not appear anywhere in the Bill. If you think about it, heritage is part of the natural environment; it contributes to making places distinctive and has a lot to do with wellbeing and people’s enjoyment of the natural environment, but things that do not have an obvious economic use are not necessarily paid for.

  Full debate: Environment Bill (Second sitting)

  Q I want to turn the conversation back to the OEP. Can you explain why the Committee on Climate Change and the Equality and Human Rights Commission have similar independence, if not slightly weaker, to the OEP? Have those bodies not clearly shown that the independence of the OEP set out in the Bill is credible?

  Full debate: Environment Bill (Second sitting)

• 05 Feb 2020: Vote

  Transport - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No