The comments made by George Eustice, the then Minister for Farming, Food and Fisheries, on 11 November 2013.
The coastal concordat will make achieving essential coastal development a much simpler process. This more straightforward approach will benefit businesses, while also enabling sustainable growth and helping to protect the marine environment.
The comments made by George Eustice, the then Minister for Farming, Food and Fisheries, on 7 November 2013.
During the past seven years, Yorkshire has received about £50 million of Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) funding, supporting the creation of hundreds of jobs.
We want to channel more of the CAP budget into the kinds of projects that have had given such a boost to Yorkshire’s rural economy.
But we want to make sure that all our choices are made with the input of people who live and work in the countryside. I’m looking forward to taking your views in Harrogate today.
The comments made by George Eustice, the then Minister for Farming, Food and Fisheries, on 31 October 2013.
The UK ensured that we have choices in how we implement the Common Agricultural Policy, rather than having to work with a one-size-fits-all approach from the European Commission.
This gives us the flexibility to target funding in ways that will deliver real benefits to the environment, boost the competitiveness of our farming industry and grow the rural economy. It’s vital that the new system is designed with the input of the people whose lives it will affect. That’s why it’s so important that people give us their views on how we can best achieve this.
The comments made by George Eustice, the then Minister for Farming, Food and Fisheries, on 24 October 2013.
I want to work closely with fishermen so we can achieve our shared goals of a thriving fishing industry, sustainable fish stocks and a healthy marine environment.
I wanted to make a visit to Scotland an early priority. There are some important negotiations in the months ahead, particularly relating to cod quotas.
Reducing quotas at a time when stocks have increased would only lead to increased discards which no one wants.
The comments made by George Eustice, the Secretary of State for the Environment, on 24 November 2020.
This is a huge moment for the UK fishing industry. This is the first domestic fisheries legislation in nearly 40 years, and we will now take back control of our waters out to 200 nautical miles or the median line.
The Fisheries Act makes clear our intention to continue to operate on the world stage as a leading, responsible, independent coastal State. We will protect our precious marine environment, whilst ensuring a fairer share of fishing opportunities for UK fishermen.
By swiftly responding to the latest scientific advice and needs of our fishing industries we will secure a thriving future for our coastal communities.
The comments made by George Eustice, the Secretary of State for the Environment, on 23 December 2020.
I am delighted to appoint Dame Glenys to Chair the OEP. She has an outstanding reputation of being an independent voice, establishing regulators and being able to hold government to account.
The Office for Environmental Protection will be a world leader in environmental regulation – setting how government will have to stand up to its pledge to protect and enhance the environment as we build back better and greener.
The statement made by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, on 12 December 2020.
Thank you very much Zeinab, thank you Secretary-General Antonio, thank you to my fellow leaders, excellences.
Good afternoon from London, where we are coming to the end of an extraordinary and difficult year, I think with a sudden surge of scientific optimism.
Because after barely 12 months of the pandemic, we’re seeing the vaccine going into the arms of the elderly and vulnerable, vaccines that have been products each and every one of them of vast international efforts in laboratories around the world.
And so my message to you all, is that together we can use scientific advances to protect our entire planet, our biosphere against a challenge far worse, far more destructive even than coronavirus.
By the promethean power of our invention we can begin to defend the earth against the disaster of global warming.
And by that I mean that together we can reduce our emissions, we can radically cut our dependence on fossil fuels, we can change our agricultural practices, and in short we can reverse the process by which for centuries, humanity has been quilting our planet in a toxic tea-cosy of greenhouse gases.
And at the same, we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs, millions of jobs across the planet as we collectively recover from coronavirus.
If you doubt our ability to do that, let me tell you that when I was a child of six, this country depended on coal for 70% of our energy needs. That coal dependency is now down to 3% or less and since 1990, the UK has cut our CO2 emissions by 43% – more than any other G20 nation – and yet our economy has grown by 75%.
Today, we’re putting our foot to the accelerator – in a carbon friendly way of course – with a Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.
We want to turn the UK into the Saudi Arabia of wind power generation, enough wind power by 2030 to supply every single one of our homes with electricity.
We’re going ahead with massive solar programme, even though we can’t hope to emulate the incredible things being done by India, Australia or Morocco for instance. Hydro of course – we’re liberating the awesome potential of hydrogen, whether for homes or all sorts of uses.
On electric vehicles we’re going to ban ICEs, new internal combustion engines by 2030, with a very ambitious programme. We’ll continue to develop new nuclear power.
We want to lengthen the lead of London, the UK, as the natural home of green finance. We want our homes to be emitting progressively less and less CO2 and doing more and more retrofitting of our homes. And wherever the UK may be accused of lagging, we won’t be lagging my friends in lagging.
We want to encourage all modes of green transport, cycling, walking and so on. We want to use the relatively new miracle of carbon capture and storage actually to take carbon from power generation and industrial processes and bury it in under-sea caverns created by the extraction of hydrocarbons.
And we’re now consecrating 30% of our waters, 30% of our land surface, to nature, because we think wild nature is the best way and most effective way of retaining carbon in a natural balance.
We do all these things because they’re right for the world, they’re right for our country – but also because we know that this green industrial revolution will generate as I say hundreds of thousands of high skilled, high paying, good quality jobs for generations to come.
And we’re going to help our friends around the world by moving away from supporting drilling and mining for hydrocarbons, but putting £11.6 billion of our overseas aid to support green technology and decarbonisation across the planet.
We want to work with all of you on this call, on this conference – let’s do it together. Let’s make it our collective commitment, as Antonio has just said, to get to net zero by 2050.
We in the UK, as he says, are going to do our bit, we’re reducing our emissions by 68% at least on 1990 levels over the next decade. And I’m really awed and humbled by the efforts of other countries around the world to set their own targets.
And I just want to repeat that key message. We’re doing this not because we are hair shirt-wearing, tree-hugging, mung bean-munching eco freaks – though I’ve got nothing against any of those categories, mung beans are probably delicious. We’re doing it because we know that scientific advances will allow us collectively as humanity to save our planet and create millions of high skilled jobs as we recover from COVID.
So thank you all very much for joining this conference, this Ambition Summit, thank you to Secretary General Antonio, thank you to my co-host Emmanuel Macron, who I know shares my keen interest in protecting the ecosystems of our seas and oceans, and I look forward to seeing you all in Glasgow face-to-face next year.
The comments made by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, on 12 December 2020.
Today we have seen what can be achieved if nations pull together and demonstrate real leadership and ambition in the fight to save our planet.
The UK has led the way with a commitment to cut emissions by at least 68 percent by 2030 and to end support for the fossil fuel sector overseas as soon as possible, and it’s fantastic to see new pledges from around the world that put us on the path to success ahead of COP26 in Glasgow.
There is no doubt that we are coming to the end of a dark and difficult year, but scientific innovation has proved to be our salvation as the vaccine is rolled out. We must use that same ingenuity and spirit of collective endeavour to tackle the climate crisis, create the jobs of the future and build back better.
The comments made by Alok Sharma, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on 11 December 2020.
Thank you very much and good afternoon everyone. And thank you particularly to His Excellency the Honourable Kausea Natano; Dame Meg Taylor; and the Pacific Island Forum Leaders, for inviting me to speak.
The message coming from regions like the Pacific on climate change has a moral urgency and the world cannot ignore it.
I hear what you say. That climate change is the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of your people. And I am committed to working with you, throughout my COP Presidency. To make sure that your voices are heard. To address the issues that matter most to you. And to find practical solutions.
I commend the leadership your region has shown on climate change. Which is reflected in the Kainaki II Declaration, the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific.
And despite contributing only a fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, many of you are coming forward with updates to your NDCs.
You are setting a powerful example and encouraging countries around the world to raise their ambition. On mitigation, on adaptation and on finance.
Last week, the United Kingdom announced its NDC. Committing to cut our emissions by at least 68% by 2030, which keeps us on the pathway to our 2050 Net Zero commitment.
Soon we will be submitting our first Adaptation Communication.
And more leaders will announce commitments at the Climate Ambition Summit, which the UK is hosting tomorrow, with the UN and France and in partnership with Italy and Chile.
And the Summit builds on events that have taken place across the world.
From the CARICOM Moment of Ambition Roundtable that the UK is co-hosting with Caribbean partners today.
To this “Kainaki II to COP26” Roundtable.
I would like to thank all those of you who are making announcements at the Summit tomorrow.
And also those who have said they will announce new commitments in the coming months.
Such targets are absolutely vital. But alongside them, we must drive practical solutions for reducing emissions. By working together, we can make progress faster.
So our COP26 campaigns are focusing attention on five critical areas: transport; energy; nature-based solutions; adaptation and resilience; and finance.
And we are highlighting adaptation as a priority and encouraging action. We’ve recently appointed a new international champion for adaptation and resilience, Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
Anne-Marie will help to lead our drive forward towards global ambition and action.
And it’s by supporting countries on the frontline of climate change that we will be able to help the adaptation to its impacts and build resilience.
We’re also working to increase public and private finance, urging donor countries to meet the $100 billion commitment. And to go beyond it.
Leading by example, the UK is doubling its international climate finance commitment to £11.6 billion over the next five years.
We’re also working to make public finance more accessible.
And to get more money for adaptation. We’re working with multilateral development banks, investors, and others.
And I know that this approach is shared by Australia and New Zealand., and I’m committed to our working closely together.
I have heard this forum’s call on averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage.
And over the next year I want to increase our understanding of all the issues that matter to you. And how they can be addressed.
And this includes listening to your views on how best the Kainaki II recommendations can be reflected in the outcomes of COP26.
So we will be increasing our engagement with the Pacific.
In the new year, we’ll be holding events to discuss the issues that matter to vulnerable countries.
And we will also ensure that your priorities are heard at the G7 and the G20. And, of course, at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting next year.
Because I am determined to amplify the voices of climate vulnerable countries and put them at the heart of the COP26 process.
So that together, we unleash the full potential of the Paris Agreement in Glasgow. And by doing so build a brighter and more sustainable future for us all.
Thank you.
The comments made by Rebecca Pow, the Environment Minister, on 10 December 2020.
These projects will drive forward work across England to restore and transform our landscapes, boost nature and create green jobs, and will be a vital part of helping us to build back greener from coronavirus.
I look forward to working with environmental organisations as these projects develop and help address the twin challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change, while creating and retaining jobs as part of the green recovery.