We've identified 107 X/Twitter posts by MPs related to action on climate change during February 2020.
28th February 2020
28 Feb 2020 Peter Dowd MP (@Peter_Dowd) RT @MetroMayorSteve: Demand for electricity will double by 2050 - which could mean power shortages without investment in green energy.
Mer… [Source]
28 Feb 2020 Jeremy Corbyn MP (@jeremycorbyn) RT @RLong_Bailey: I met Jeremy Corbyn to discuss how the Green Industrial Revolution will tackle climate change and transform our economy.… [Source]
28 Feb 2020 Caroline Nokes MP (@carolinenokes) A pleasure to be @CantellSchool this morning, talking politics, climate change, diversity etc with Year 10 students. Particular thanks to Headteacher @HKUT77 for being a voice of common sense this morning, much appreciated [Source]
28 Feb 2020 Tom Morrison MP (@ThomasMorrison) @cllrdavidm Again... £6.4m.. its really quite simple. It’s not about leaflets, David, it’s about actually taking a stand on climate change. Your party decided not to do that, that’s for you guys to explain, not us. We genuinely thought you’d reach out and help us get it through. Its a shame. [Source]
28 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) RT @LibDems: "If the Conservatives are serious about taking the climate emergency, they should simply cancel #Heathrow expansion once and f… [Source]
28 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) RT @LibDems: The UK cannot properly tackle the climate crisis if we continue to expand our airports.
We've stopped a third runway at Heath… [Source]
27th February 2020
27 Feb 2020 Lisa Smart MP (@Lisa_Smart) Labour, Conservative and Independent councillors voted against creating a Climate Emergency Fund. Thoroughly dispiriting. [Source]
27 Feb 2020 Lisa Smart MP (@Lisa_Smart) The Climate Emergency Fund allocated £2.1m to be spent in local communities with ideas to tackle the climate emergency coming FROM those local communities such as tree planting, smaller cycle paths, a school recycling project within local wards. [Source]
27 Feb 2020 Lisa Smart MP (@Lisa_Smart) Thoroughly dispiriting evening at Stockport Council's budget setting meeting. We @LibDems proposed an amendment to the budget which would have created a £6.4 million Climate Emergency Fund - matching this year's Manchester Airport dividend. [Source]
27 Feb 2020 Tom Morrison MP (@ThomasMorrison) Tonight, the Labour Party in Stockport voted against delivering a climate emergency fund and giving the residents of Cheadle Hulme North £100k to help fund flood protection. Shameful. [Source]
27 Feb 2020 Christine Jardine MP (@cajardineMP) RT @LibDems: The UK cannot properly tackle the climate crisis if we continue to expand our airports.
We've stopped a third runway at Heath… [Source]
27 Feb 2020 Claire Young MP (@ClaireforTAY) Greta Thunberg is such an inspiration for so many, especially young people - I hope her visit will galvanise community support as we try to tackle the Climate Emergency [Source]
27 Feb 2020 Nick Timothy MP (@NJ_Timothy) 3 quick observations on Heathrow. We need more aviation capacity to be competitive and prosperous. It’s a problem that courts increasingly make political decisions. One reason they do is ambiguous/contradictory policy. Our climate goals are unrealistic yet nobody wants to say so. [Source]
27 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) RT @COP26: ???? ???? ???????? ????
The PM's Finance Advisor for COP26, Mark Carney, has launched the summit’s Private Finance Agenda alongside #COP26 Pr… [Source]
27 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) #DecarbonisingCapitalism
Excited to attend launch of climate finance agenda for #COP26 this am
@MarkCarney_BOE & @AttenboroughSir presenting
Hoping for radical proposals to reform capitalism for #NetZero [Source]
26 Feb 2020 Emily Darlington MP (@emily4MK) These students are some of our amazing Eco Warriors. It was great to meet them and hear what they are doing including a lunch plastic ban. This school is going really embracing the challenges of climate change. They throughly deserve to win #ecowarriors #bletchley https://twitter.com/mkfm/status/1232605008442613760 [Source]
26 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) Scale of flooding crisis...
We’re facing a #ClimateEmergency and regrettably, severe weather episodes like storms and UK floods are likely to become more common
????This needs large scale govt support, w cross party backing ...yet the Tories seem happy to stand by and do nothing [Source]
24 Feb 2020 Kim Johnson MP (@KimJohnsonMP) I am supporting @RLong_Bailey because she is a strong working class woman who understands what we need to do as a party to win the next election and fight the climate crisis. The green industrial revolution will be a way to do this and heal a divided party and country. [Source]
24 Feb 2020 Florence Eshalomi MP (@FloEshalomi) Oh lord. As predicted the Tories want us to stop funding Culture which has helped support young people into arts. And the Brexit Alliance are saying there is no climate emergency so why is the Mayor establishing a new £50m fund to support a Green New Deal ????????♀️????????♀️#MayorsBudget [Source]
20 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) So where can progressives unite to make change? For me it starts with social justice, the climate emergency & fighting to keep the UK’s family of nations together 4/5 [Source]
20 Feb 2020 Claire Young MP (@ClaireforTAY) At the South Gloucestershire Climate Emergency Community Engagement event at UWE - part of the work following on from our declaration of a Climate Emergency last year [Source]
20 Feb 2020 Peter Lamb MP (@CllrPetesTweets) @BenRTWeisz We're not and the evidence suggests we have neither the time nor the money left to do anything much about it. The most dispiriting thing for me is polls still indicate parking improvements remain more of a priority for residents than tackling climate change. [Source]
17 Feb 2020 Max Wilkinson MP (@mpmwilko) Local Conservatives voted down an extra £2million for environment initiatives @gloscc last week. This week, they’ve done some fag packet maths to tell us to spend another £50,000 on climate change in Cheltenham, when we are leading the charge already. Rank hypocrisy. [Source]
17 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) Tackling #ClimateEmergency in #France
✅Civil servs get €200 annual bonus for sharing car/cycling to work
✅Ministerial cars: #electric/#hybrid
✅Govt stops buying single-use plastics
✅Ministers use trains for non-emergency trips
????UK must do the same https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51487851.amp [Source]
16th February 2020
16 Feb 2020 Max Wilkinson MP (@mpmwilko) @helen_fagan@rowena_kay@mr__mo@LeighBoobyer If every well-meaning scheme is summarily dismissed due to assumed negatives based on unpredictable human responses, before proper consultation and investigation, then efforts to solve the climate crisis and public health issues will always fail. [Source]
14 Feb 2020 Dan Carden MP (@DanCardenMP) RT @jasonhickel: So the guy who has been chosen to chair the climate summit is an MP who has "generally voted against measures to prevent c… [Source]
13 Feb 2020 Torcuil Crichton MP (@Torcuil) Alok Sharma MP to Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He will also be Minister for COP26. People say he doesn't know anything about environment. More importantly he doesn't know the first thing about how the SNP operate and the turf war over Glasgow conf. is far from over. [Source]
11 Feb 2020 Olly Glover MP (@OllyGloverLD) @robblackie It is a bit of good news, but unfortunately a long way short of the reductions needed to avert a climate crisis.
Governments, businesses and all of us individuals need to do so much more/better. [Source]
11 Feb 2020 Tom Morrison MP (@ThomasMorrison) Good to see Mary Robinson raise flooding in Parliament. Perhaps she should also look at her own voting record which has done nothing to tackle climate change... #wordsmeannothing [Source]
11 Feb 2020 Phil Brickell MP (@Phil_Brickell) @paultheblue1894@CllrETaylor@BBCNewsnight Well said @CllrETaylor It’s not primarily about commuting times. That’s an added bonus. It’s about creating additional capacity when the West Coast Mainline is full to the brim, we’re facing a climate emergency & a growing population. HS2’s detractors have no alternative proposal [Source]
10 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) RT @Wera_Hobhouse: #Brexit will make responding to #ClimateChange much harder. We will no longer be decision makers or have a seat at the t… [Source]
09 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) RT @LibDems: "How can the Conservatives or Labour be serious about their commitments to tackling climate change unless they join my Liberal… [Source]
07 Feb 2020 Brian Mathew MP (@BrianMathew4NW) @MFausingSmith Martin we need electric cars and hydrogen cars, but we also need to move quickly, and synthetic fuels produced using renewable energy may well be the bridge we need for the speed we need to carbon zero. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the possible... have a good weekend! [Source]
07 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) RT @LibDems: "Donald Trump is one of the biggest blocks to action on things like climate change... With his foreign policy, he's created gr… [Source]
06 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) RT @LibDems: "What we need is proper leadership from the Prime Minister on the climate emergency and he's failed to give that." - @EdwardJD… [Source]
04 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) Join me on @BBCNewsnight tonight 10:30
I'm talking #ClimateChange, #COP26 & UK leadership ????
Johnson launched climate change summit, with NO dept for climate change and NO President of COP. UK should be leading fight on #ClimateEmergency not pretending. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk25 [Source]
04 Feb 2020 Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) Telegraph reporting that the EU will demand we ‘regularly report’ to Brussels on climate change otherwise no trade deal.
Is there nothing the EU won’t use to blackmail us?
They’re pushing us closer to WTO every day with these mad demands.
Keep it up! [Source]
04 Feb 2020 Ed Davey MP (@EdwardJDavey) RT @LibDems: Today, Boris Johnson launched the #COP26 climate change summit, yet we have no department for climate change and no President… [Source]
04 Feb 2020 Ed Miliband MP (@Ed_Miliband) Today’s #cop26 shenanigans are deeply depressing: UK Gov has presidency of an institution it doesn’t understand, with a PM who doesn’t ‘get’ the most important issue facing humanity and can’t answer questions. This is amateur hour. Appoint someone as COP President and get a grip [Source]
04 Feb 2020 Torcuil Crichton MP (@Torcuil) @NicolaSturgeon Sacked climate adviser Claire O Neill adds Glasgow "city council amazing" but in the "playground politics" between Johnson & UK Sturgeon she claims "Scottish gov behaved disgracefully, for ex, contracting buildings that are on the Cop site that should be available to conference" [Source]
04 Feb 2020 Torcuil Crichton MP (@Torcuil) Claire O'Neill blows lid off toxic stand-off between UK and Scot gov over COP26 Climate summit.Says Johnson considered moving Nov conference from Glasgow because of lack of co-operation. Her suggestion that @NicolaSturgeon be offered a role dismissed by PM with "salty language". [Source]
02 Feb 2020 Emily Thornberry MP (@EmilyThornberry) Solving the climate crisis needs a clear plan from Labour. Our Green Industrial Revolution must be a shining example as to what we can achieve. We need clear measurable targets across the U.K so we can become the world leaders in this fight. #LabourHustings #FightingBackTogether [Source]
01 Feb 2020 Sean Woodcock MP (@SEANLWOODCOCK) Very busy Town Councillors Surgery this morning with majority of those attending wanting to know what we intend on doing following the Climate Emergency resolution passed at the last meeting. Some great suggestions as well. Now off to watch rugby. [Source]
01 Feb 2020 Emily Thornberry MP (@EmilyThornberry) The Tories are not rising to the challenge of the Climate Crisis. Labour must listen to communities across the U.K and be the party of the Green Industrial Revolution. Labour needs to lead the way and provide the change. #FightingBackTogether #LabourHustings [Source]
01 Feb 2020 Luke Myer MP (@luke_myer) The government's commitment to tackling the climate emergency & meeting their (already lax) 2050 manifesto pledge starts and ends with PR opportunities. https://t.co/2saLHxmKgQ [Source]
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