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HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI am having a flashback to my old job as rail Minister. The hon. Lady’s constituency is a beneficiary of some of the big investments we are making, such as in the wind turbine…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI am sure the hon. Lady has also read “The Burning Question”, which was published in 2013 and addresses the challenge of the valuation of oil and gas reserves. Indeed, I have…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionBy working together, we can solve the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. It will be difficult, but it is doable. In doing so, we will create jobs and prosperity for the…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI pay tribute to the hon. Lady, who has been walking the vegan walk now for many years and has been a doughty campaigner. She is absolutely right: CO 2 emissions from land use and…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionThere is no ban on onshore wind, as the hon. Lady well knows. I was elected on a manifesto which said that large-scale wind development, of which there is now 13 gigawatts in the…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionThe hon. Gentleman will be able to discuss that matter further during the passage of the environment Bill. He makes a powerful point, but I reassure him, as I have said many…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI mentioned at the beginning that we have to do things that are proportionate and fair. I know that the hon. Gentleman supported the cap on fuel prices that we put in, because we…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionOf course, and part of the reason that I am so passionate about this is that I studied climate change, geography and meteorology at Oxford University many years ago. Many of the…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionThe hon. Lady is right to raise the issue of pension fund investing. When we had our Green Great Britain Week last year, we said that one of the most effective things that an…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionThe hon. Lady is right to point out that one problem we do not talk about enough is that CO 2 pollution is often associated with particulate pollution, and one of the co-benefits…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI am happy to tell the hon. Gentleman that the Each Home Counts review that we did, whose recommendations we have accepted, and where we have a trust mark for the work he…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI do recognise that ambitions need to be raised not just here but around the world. That is why I hope we will have the chance to secure the crucial climate change talks next…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI do not see too many dinosaurs in the building today. However, I pay tribute to both the devolved Administrations and the Westminster Government, who have worked incredibly well…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionMany of the projects that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned were being funded entirely by Government subsidies. The Government have no money of their own; the money that they have…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI gently say to the hon. Gentleman that I think that that is a really wrong reading of what I have said, and I am happy to send him Hansard —he will find that quite the opposite…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionThe hon. Lady is right to point out the role of local authorities. I believe that much policy is best pulled through at a local level, where it is possible to join up…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionWhen I launched the offshore wind sector deal, I said that power generation would be at least 70% net carbon zero by 2030—in only 11 years—so we can extrapolate from that. There…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI did not realise the demands had got that broad. The hon. Lady is right to focus on something really important: it is the job of Governments to steward what they have for a…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI am always delighted to visit installations in Wales—I visited Bridgend with the hon. Member for Bridgend (Mrs Moon) and saw the amazing innovation work being led there—so it…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI thank my hon. Friend for raising carbon capture and storage. Members will know that a competition was run several years ago, and it was a rather crude, as it were,…23 Apr 2019