We've identified 37 X/Twitter posts by MPs related to action on climate change during May 2020.
31st May 2020
31 May 2020 Luke Akehurst MP (@lukeakehurst) @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 Luke Akehurst MP (@lukeakehurst) @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]
31 May 2020 Jayne Kirkham MP (@JayneKirkham4) @GrahamSmithCR Also, we need a green energy plan for cornwall to ensure Cornwall’s people benefit from our amazing natural resources like geothermal, tidal, wind & solar. [Source]
29 May 2020 Katie White MP (@KatieJWhite) Great to hear @RishiSunak confirm #netzero will absolutely be part of this “green” recovery and build on Budget initial steps. Look forward to hearing more in weeks ahead. Let’s make some positives out of this tragic situation #GreenRecovery #wwf #ClimateChange #netzero #nature [Source]
29 May 2020 Gill Furniss MP (@GillFurnissMP) RT @labourpress: "With 17 months to prepare for COP26, there can be no excuse now for nations not to significantly boost their climate ambi… [Source]
28th May 2020
28 May 2020 Ed Miliband MP (@Ed_Miliband) RT @labourpress: "With 17 months to prepare for COP26, there can be no excuse now for nations not to significantly boost their climate ambi… [Source]
28 May 2020 Ed Miliband MP (@Ed_Miliband) Thread ????
There is now 18 months to plan for #COP26. Nobody should be under any illusions that this is a brief window in the world of climate diplomacy. Nor should anyone underestimate the complexity of these negotiations or the attention and focus it needs in government. 1/ [Source]
27th May 2020
27 May 2020 Sean Woodcock MP (@SEANLWOODCOCK) @SP_Duckworth@dijdowell Nigel Lawson or Owen Patterson can go on Radio 4 Today and casts doubt on climate change. No sanctions for the BBC.
Maitlis and we get this.
That is my point. [Source]
27 May 2020 Sean Woodcock MP (@SEANLWOODCOCK) @SP_Duckworth@dijdowell Won't comment on Maitlis except to say I've been equally furious at impartiality being an excuse to put all sorts of nonsense on. Such as climate change denial. [Source]
25 May 2020 Katie White MP (@KatieJWhite) In the midst of this horrific situation, an opportunity to accelerate our low carbon transition, @RishiSunak should incentivize decarbonisation as part of his reindustrialisation plan @FThttps://on.ft.com/2TCGa0x P.S - Yorkshire could be the Green Capital ???? ???? [Source]
15 May 2020 Max Wilkinson MP (@mpmwilko) @MaryRegW@MatthewR0226@timfarron On that note, I bet I could find you plenty of examples of local campaigns against renewable energy schemes. All justified by perfectly good ‘local factors’ of course... [Source]
13 May 2020 Liz Twist MP (@LizTwistMP) The Agriculture Bill falls short on protecting our environment and climate.
At this time of climate catastrophe the Government must include targets for - and support - our British agricultural industry to reach net zero. We must be serious about tackling our global footprint. https://twitter.com/LizTwistMP/status/1260577053910478848/photo/1 [Source]
11th May 2020
11 May 2020 Adam Jogee MP (@AJogee) People should drive? What happened the climate emergency? #pmstatement [Source]
07 May 2020 Kevin Hollinrake MP (@kevinhollinrake) RT @VolansHQ: We recently launched the Bankers for NetZero Initiative in a with an 'all-star’ speaker lineup of Changemakers in the Finance… [Source]
6th May 2020
06 May 2020 David Chadwick MP (@LibDemDavid) @HaryMcormack198@sjk_42 Decarbonising capitalism requires rewriting the rules for the financial sector, which a government can do. A green industrial revolution requires many things a government can’t do. One is a deliverable policy, the other isn’t. [Source]
06 May 2020 David Chadwick MP (@LibDemDavid) @sjk_42@HaryMcormack198 Decarbonising capitalism refers to stopping the financing of harmful economic activity, such as funding mining companies in S America. I’m less clear on the specifics of the green industrial revolution but presume both would push govt initiatives like the Green investment bank [Source]
06 May 2020 David Chadwick MP (@LibDemDavid) @HaryMcormack198 Sorry but I disagree there. Green industrial revolution means nothing at all. Decarbonising capitalism means something. Ed gave a talk on it on a Friday night in Dorset and 300 people turned up. About 10 new members joined. [Source]
04 May 2020 Phil Brickell MP (@Phil_Brickell) @McrMomentum You must have forgotten that the green policies in the 2019 manifesto allowed for a just transition to de-carbonise the economy which also protected employees, their livelihoods & the wider economy as opposed to letting jobs & vital national infrastructure wither on the vine. [Source]
3rd May 2020
03 May 2020 Ed Miliband MP (@Ed_Miliband) 6/We need to act on climate change with a green recovery plan and a zero carbon army of workers insulating homes, manufacturing wind turbines and reforesting and rewilding. [Source]
1st May 2020
01 May 2020 Ed Miliband MP (@Ed_Miliband) Today is one year since the climate emergency was declared by the House of Commons.
We must deal with the coronavirus crisis and then we must as country return to the issue of climate change.
Tackling it will be an essential part of the jobs recovery we will need. [Source]
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