Per Capita Carbon Emissions - 6th June 2013

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Per Capita Carbon Emissions.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-06-06/debates/13060646000018/PerCapitaCarbonEmissions

09:35 Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Let me reassure my hon. Friend. We work very closely with our European colleagues, and I formed the green growth group, currently working with about nine other member states, including our German and Dutch colleagues. We need to reform the ETS to make sure we have a functioning and effective carbon market in Europe, and we also need an ambitious 2030 target for greenhouse gas emissions. The UK Government have agreed that we will seek a 50% target in the context of winning a global climate change treaty.

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09:39 Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden) (Con)

What is the point of us closing coal-fired power stations if Germany is opening 20 of them? What is the point of us having a carbon tax and reducing emissions if we thereby release trading permits for other countries in Europe to emit more carbon?

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Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

My hon. Friend is right. We do not want to see carbon leakage; that would not help the climate, and it would not help our economy. That is why I agreed with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills a very generous package, working with the Chancellor, to compensate energy-intensive industries for the indirect costs of the ETS and the carbon price floor, and it is also why we have exempted energy-intensive industries from the costs of contracts for difference. We want to ensure we make progress on climate change, but we also want to ensure we keep successful businesses in the United Kingdom.

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