Extracts from Commons
debate on Climate Change Assembly UK: The Path to Net
Zero
(Leicester East) (Ind):...The Tory Government continued
to give oil companies further tax breaks until as recently as
December 2018. The 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
found that, to prevent global temperatures from rising by more
than 1.5° above pre-industrial levels—seen by scientists as a
tipping point past which climate disasters will be locked in—oil
and gas production must fall by 20% by 2030. I am gravely
concerned that if fossil fuel companies are left to their own
devices, such crucial targets will be missed. For example,
ExxonMobil is projected to extract 25% more oil and gas in 2025
than in 2017. Oil companies such as Exxon and Shell knew that their extractive
industries were causing climate change as far back as the 1980s,
but instead of informing the public, they funded climate change
denial and those lobbying against environmental policy...
(Rother
Valley) (Con):...I refer hon. Members to my entry in the Register
of Members’ Financial Interests. Obviously, having been part of
the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s
commissioned report, and given my previous background working for
the World Wildlife Fund, but also a company called Shell I have a particular interest in
this sector...
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Extract from end
of day adjournment debate on Hydrogen Transport
(Rother
Valley) (Con):...Members will be well versed in my advocacy for
hydrogen in this House. I serve as a vice-chair of the all-party
group on hydrogen and I champion hydrogen technology consistently
in my speeches and articles on levelling up and our green
recovery. My commitment to this exciting technology stems from my
life prior to entering Parliament. Before I was elected to
represent the people of Rother Valley, I worked on environmental
issues at the World Wildlife Fund before focusing on the UK’s
global transition to a green future at Shell. It
was then that I realised we need a multi-pronged approach to
low-carbon transport...
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