National Security and Investment Bill (First sitting) - 24th November 2020

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate National Security and Investment Bill (First sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-11-24/debates/D6FCFF86-0B13-4698-804F-A16E9ACA2AD4/NationalSecurityandInvestmentBillFirstsitting

10:51 Chi Onwurah (Labour)

The reason this is so difficult to comprehend is that areas like climate change and energy policy, which are national security issues but not right on the frontline, are so big that, I think, China has a pretty disturbing agenda for us. They will encourage us to follow policies that they think are disadvantageous to our economy.

If you take their statements on things like climate change, which is relevant to what we are talking about, China is going to go on increasing its carbon emissions up until 2030, if we look at the figures and understand its policies. China is going to completely miss out renewables. When it has generated enough wealth and success in its economy, it is going to jump from carbon energy straight to nuclear and hydrogen. It will have the wealth and the means to do that. Renewables for the Chinese are going to be rather peripheral, because they will not generate the energy intensity that the Chinese economy requires. China has a road map in its head that is really rather different from ours and there is no question but that, competitively, our green agenda is going to put us at an even greater disadvantage to China, if you take a 30-year view of that.

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