Proceeding contribution from Claire O'Neill (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 April 2019. It occurred during Urgent question on Climate Action and Extinction Rebellion.
Climate Action and Extinction Rebellion
To answer in reverse order, there has been progress made on aviation and shipping. That continues to be an international challenge because flights and ships leave and take off from different places, but there is work accelerating on it, and indeed some investment going into low-carbon fuels, which could be hugely important. I will happily update the House when we have received the net zero report and talk about the various aspects in that. We are investing in the first net zero industrial cluster in the UK, with £170 million of funding from the industrial strategy challenge fund. As my hon. Friend has reminded me, it is not just the young who are protesting: one of the most effective and wide-scale campaigning organisations in the UK in this area is the Women’s Institute, which has over 9,000 climate ambassadors. This is a problem that affects all of us, and the solution will involve all of us.
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- 2017-19
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- House of Commons chamber
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- Demonstrations Climate change Greater London Carbon emissions Extinction Rebellion
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