G20 and COP26 World Leaders Summit

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How will the Government ensure that COP26 delivers on the promises made at the G20 summit, especially regarding phasing out coal and securing more investment for green initiatives?

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What specific measures is the Government taking to ensure that developing countries receive adequate financial support during COP26?

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How does the Government plan to leverage the outcomes of COP26 to promote further global collaboration and innovation in tackling climate change?

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The MP questioned whether the Prime Minister's approach was sufficient to address climate change and vaccine distribution, citing concerns about UK commitments lagging behind other nations. She urged for urgent action on both fronts.

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The MP asked the Prime Minister to ensure that wasteful spending is curtailed in order to create a more competitive economic environment.

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The MP questioned whether the G20 summit had effectively built momentum for COP26 and raised concerns about commitments from larger nations being caveated. He also asked about concrete actions agreed upon to address famine in Afghanistan and increase vaccine roll-out.

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To what extent does the success of the entire enterprise depend upon the promised finance to the developing world?

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I thank the Prime Minister for all his efforts to try to make COP26 a success. For many of us, halting climate change has been the passion of our lives... May I ask the PM to confirm reports that China’s proposed contribution to cutting emissions goes nowhere near fast enough or far enough?

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What will we do if we do not get agreement on article 6 and persuade countries such as China to properly price carbon into their economies?

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People live in terror of another Aberfan. I just wonder whether he would be prepared to meet me, the leader of the local council and the other Members from Rhondda Cynon Taf, specifically to discuss how we can make sure that all those tips are safe.

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Is China’s commitment to reach peak coal in 2030 an aspiration or a binding target?

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Will he now take this opportunity to put real credibility behind his stirring words and commit now, finally, to reversing the decision on the Cambo oilfield—yes or no?

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When will the power of the room be on those countries to sign up to the pledge as well?

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The Prime Minister has not yet mentioned water resilience, yet it is at the top of the agenda for many of the countries most affected by the climate emergency. What is his assessment of funding for water resilience projects?

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Does the Prime Minister therefore not agree with me that the Chinese have a doubly important moral obligation to stick by their commitment to reduce the production of coal in China?

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Can the Prime Minister understand their frustration and disdain that those who tell them that they must bear those burdens fly into Glasgow in private jets and ferry around town in gas-guzzling cavalcades?

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Will he reassure my constituents that the goal of achieving net zero is not a burden to be borne, but an opportunity to be grasped to create new innovative jobs and new sectors in which we can lead the world?

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I welcome the statement today, but does the Prime Minister believe that it is important to encourage more people to use rail, instead of other carbon-intensive transport methods?

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Given the success in ending deforestation, will he meet to discuss using institutions such as Kew Gardens to reverse desert spread through better planting of trees?

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Will the Prime Minister ensure that there is a ringfenced pot for tidal stream energy development in the next round of contract for difference options?

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May I invite him to visit Rolls-Royce, which is developing a 100% sustainable fuel jet engine for aviation, and to support the gigafactory proposal in Coventry?

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The UK has $20 billion from special drawing rights, but why are we being slow and sluggish in recycling that money back to the IMF to help poorer countries?

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With developing nations, we should not risk sustaining their poverty by asking them to consign coal power to history without providing alternatives. Does he agree with exporting UK small modular reactor technology as an opportunity?

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Will he challenge those voices from his supporters who are increasingly objecting to green taxes and the so-called ropey economics of net zero?

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Using the clean, green finance initiative, what opportunities are there to help south-east Asian nations transition from coal-fired energy to renewable energy?

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Does he understand the dismay of workers at GKN-Melrose who are facing plant closure and production export to Poland? Does he agree we need a supply chain here in Britain for an electric future?

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Will he appeal to community groups and schools for involvement in planting trees as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy project?

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To help small island developing states, would access to finance and blue finance for marine conservation really help them?

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Six per cent. of global GDP is spent on fossil fuel subsidies, which is destroying our planet, and China spends more on them than the United States, Russia and the European Union combined. Will the Prime Minister take leadership in reducing fossil fuel subsidies? In particular, will he support the carbon border taxes that are being promoted by the EU?

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The United Nations Secretary-General has said that it will be very difficult to secure the commitment needed for the 1.5° goal, and, in relation to new fossil fuel excavations, that “we don’t need more oil and gas”. Will the Prime Minister tell us what engagement his Government are having with the oil and gas industries to support them in their efforts to decarbonise sustainably?

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It seems that we are in the last chance saloon if we are to make an impact on limiting the effect of climate change. Does the Prime Minister share my disappointment that China and India have failed to match many other countries’ commitments to reach net zero by 2050, placing their targets 10 and 20 years later? Does he agree that if the remainder of COP26 is to be a success, we need to get some movement from them on that as well?

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In his statement, the Prime Minister said: “We have the technology to do what is necessary: all that remains in question is our resolve.” With that in mind, why do the British Government not extend the favourable financing model being proposed for nuclear energy generation to other technologies, such as the proposed Swansea tidal lagoon?

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Earlier today at COP26, young people from the group Green New Deal Rising tried to ask the Chancellor directly why he was continuing to subsidise fossil fuels and the fossil fuel industry to such an extent. Instead of engaging with those young people, whose generation could be the first to die from climate change rather than old age, the Chancellor promptly banned them from attending his talk. I wonder whether the Prime Minister and the Chancellor could instead engage with that generation of young people, and move on from greenwash towards a green new deal to raise Britain up and meet our climate obligations.