Wholesale Energy Prices - 19th March 2015

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Wholesale Energy Prices.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-03-19/debates/15031923000017/WholesaleEnergyPrices

Barry Gardiner (Labour)

The drop in wholesale energy prices has allowed Governments around the world—including India, Indonesia and Egypt—to reduce the subsidies to fossil fuels in a way that is commensurate with the proposals of the United Nations framework convention on climate change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. However, in yesterday’s Budget the Chancellor gave a £1.3 billion subsidy to our fossil fuel industries. What does the Minister make of that paradox?

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