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HANSARDGlasgow Climate Pact: BusinessesMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the role of local energy companies in helping the transition to net zero through the provision of renewable energy. Close to my constituency…20 Apr 2022HANSARDGlasgow Climate Pact: BusinessesI remind the hon. Gentleman that we have published a net zero strategy that clearly sets out our long-term plans for creating hundreds of thousands of extra jobs. Green jobs get…20 Apr 2022HANSARDGlasgow Climate Pact: BusinessesMy hon. Friend raises an important point, and her beautiful constituency is well worth a visit. She makes a vital point about rooftop solar, and she will know from the energy…20 Apr 2022HANSARDGlasgow Climate Pact: BusinessesThe hon. Gentleman will know that the Government are providing support to help energy-intensive industries decarbonise. Through the COP26 process, the breakthrough agenda is…20 Apr 2022HANSARDDomestic Solar EnergyI respectfully disagree with the shadow Minister; the Government are doing an enormous amount on this issue. In the latest contracts for difference auction process, solar is back…20 Apr 2022HANSARDGlasgow Climate Pact: BusinessesAt COP26, probably for the first time at a COP, we saw the business community coming together in force to make commitments on tackling climate change. The business community is,…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTackling Climate ChangeCountries made significant commitments at COP26 on emissions reductions; finance and support for developing nations; and adaptation, loss and damage. We are continuing to press…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTackling Climate ChangeThe hon. Gentleman has eloquently raised a number of domestic policy issues and I know that the Energy Minister would be happy to write to him on all of them.20 Apr 2022HANSARDTackling Climate ChangeTackling climate change is the right thing to do and it is also economically the smart thing to do. That is why at COP26 we had $130 trillion of private sector money signed up to…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTackling Climate ChangeI very much enjoyed my visit to Winchester and I commend my hon. Friend for all the work he does in his local community. We had some excellent questions from the very many young…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTackling Climate ChangeAs the hon. Gentleman will know, at COP26 we agreed the Glasgow dialogue on loss and damage. That was the first time we had significant text in the cover decision on this issue.…20 Apr 2022HANSARDGlasgow Climate Pact: BusinessesMy right hon. Friend raises an important point. The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and his Ministers are, of course, working on that. Again, at an…20 Apr 2022HANSARDDomestic Solar EnergyOf course, we want an expansion of renewables across the country, but I point my hon. Friend to the energy security strategy, which sets out our plan to ensure more rooftop solar,…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI commend my hon. Friend for his work as the UK’s trade envoy to Brazil; he is doing a brilliant job. During my recent visit, I encouraged the Government to formally submit their…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the hon. Lady will know, the Government are providing a significant amount of investment in new technologies, and, as I referenced in an earlier response, the contracts for…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsSince March 2021 and through the 2021 Budget and spending review, the Government have committed a total of £30 billion of domestic investment for the green industrial revolution.…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend raises an important point. We need to make sure that we honour the $100 billion pledge, but, as I said earlier, we are also working with countries to ensure that…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt COP26, all countries agreed to phase down the use of coal domestically, and we will continue to urge them to deliver on that commitment. As a result of the current energy…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I have said, we want to see a managed transition. That is not going to happen overnight. My right hon. Friend will also know that we have set out in our domestic energy…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was published this month, makes it clear that the window to limit the average global temperature rise to…20 Apr 2022