Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Fossil Fuel Interest Groups.
Jon Trickett (Labour)
4. If he will make an assessment of the effect of fossil fuel interest groups on the outcomes of COP26.
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11:39 The COP26 President (Alok Sharma)
I answered this question earlier, but I reiterate that, to participate on UK presidency platforms at COP26, all corporates were required to sign up to net zero commitments. Let me reconfirm that there were no fossil fuel companies participating on UK presidency platforms.
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11:39 Jon Trickett (Labour)
Look, the truth is that the whole process of transition is either stalled or in reverse. We know that there are powerful interest groups in Downing Street saying that climate change is of secondary importance. What is striking is that, when we look at ministerial diaries, we see that Ministers have met representatives of fossil fuel companies nine times more frequently than companies representing renewables. Is it not clear that this Government are in the pockets of the fossil fuel industries and have in effect been captured by those corporations, which explains the asymmetric way in which the Government are operating in relation to the transition?
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