Bangladesh - 7th December 2011

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Bangladesh.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2011-12-07/debates/11120739000028/Bangladesh

11:45 Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway) (Lab)

Climate change is having a serious impact on food security and production in Bangladesh—the production of rice and wheat is forecast to fall by around a third by 2050. What additional resources or funding will be made available to help some of the poorest in the world, given the effect of climate change on their food production?

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Andrew Mitchell (Conservative)

The hon. Gentleman is entirely accurate about the effects of climate change on very vulnerable people in Bangladesh, where only a fairly small rise in the water level could wipe out hundreds of thousands of homes. We are directly involved in protecting 15 million vulnerable people from those effects of climate change, and we will continue—through, for example, the development of scuba rice, which grows in very difficult circumstances—to target malnutrition.

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