Proceeding contribution from Colin Challen (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 5 November 2009. It occurred during Debate on Climate Change.
Climate Change
That would call for the most radical transformation of our economy. Many people are working on that, but they are still on the fringe, perhaps in the way that people who spoke about climate change were on the fringe 30 years ago. I do not necessarily include Margaret Thatcher, but I bet that some people in her party thought that she was a bit on the fringe when talking about climate change to the United Nations and making a big issue of it. She should obviously get credit for that. Organisations such as the New Economics Foundation, the Green New Deal Group, which includes quite a number of people, and other campaigns show that we could start the transformation far more quickly if we had the political will.
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- 2008-09
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- Climate change Developing countries International cooperation Research Carbon emissions Conferences Greenhouse gas emissions
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