Speeches by White.

“Absolutely.”

“Well, thank you for the opportunity and the challenge of changing your views, which I think might be long held. There is quite a lot in that. I absolutely agree with you that the public expects more for adaptation, and as we sit here very uncomfortably in this room getting hotter and hotter, we see the impact on produc…”

“Chair, if I can clarify, the criticism is towards the Government and not towards the UNFCCC process?”

“Obviously it is above my pay grade to make machinery of government changes and announcements or decisions today—way above my pay grade. I agree that we need to make sure we are working across government. We have been doing that with me sitting here with my colleague from the FCDO. I work very closely with DEFRA colleag…”

“I will start off but both of my colleagues probably have quite a lot to say on this. We have a regular ODA board meeting, which is between myself and Minister Creagh and Minister Chapman. We have set that up since we came in and I think it has been working very effectively. We now have a strategy that we work on togeth…”

“I think we feel confident we have improved the position. I do not want to pre-empt any outcome but we have definitely made inroads on this and we will continue to endeavour to do that. As Rachel said, having these special representatives has been pretty game changing from my position.”

“I think that that is an unfair challenge. We have put ourselves right at the heart of the agenda again. Britain, at the end of the last Government was certainly not at the heart of the negotiating table. There has been progress on forests. The Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership is something that we have been worki…”

“I know the Pensions Minister is in regular contact with them. I was at the stock exchange the week before last talking to them when I was opening the stock exchange around the green economy mark and they were looking at where those opportunities were in the UK and internationally.”

“I am Katie White. I am the Climate Minister.”

“Chair, if I can clarify, the criticism is towards the Government and not towards the UNFCCC process?”

“I thank my hon. Friend—another fantastic speaker in the carbon budget debate the week before last—and Ranelagh school students for presenting their ideas. They are not alone; this issue is raised at most schools that we visit, and we have to reassure students that the Government are taking action at international, nati…”

“I thank my hon. Friend, who has raised this issue on many occasions in this House, and who is a friend of mine from across our great city. It is really important that we work at international, national and local level. Across our country, we all have a responsibility for the words and phrases that we use, and a respons…”

“I will absolutely congratulate Winchester city council on leading on this. Councils play a hugely important role, and I am looking forward to meeting many of them to discuss this issue when I visit the Local Government Association later this week. We have £1 billion of funding for community energy projects, and we are …”

“I would like to highlight three things that this Government have done to tackle climate change. First, we have brought forward carbon budget 7. I pay tribute to many Members of this House for the excellent discussion we had, with contributions from Members from Darlington to Devon, via Derby. Secondly, we have secured …”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her contributions on climate change in the debate last week on carbon budget 7. The recent heatwave showed us for the first time the implications that we face across our country. For parents up and down the country, when many schools closed—not to mention other workplaces and hospitals—it had…”

“I thank my hon. Friend, who contributes to many of these debates. We want to ensure that we have a system that supports reductions in emissions, while also maintaining supply. I do not think that what my hon. Friend says is the case, but we do see a future for Grangemouth, and we look forward to continuing to work with…”

“I agree with my hon. Friend’s comments on public support. Ultimately, pretty much everybody in this House cares about the people and places that we love. This issue comes up time and again at every school I visit, and I know that is the same for people from all corners of this place, because I get letters from people f…”

“I pay tribute to my hon. Friend on his work before he came to this place; he was an international leader on this matter. This Government have put Britain back into leadership on international climate change. Last week, we welcomed 75,000 people to London, because our city is a leading mix of science, innovation, techno…”

“My understanding is that the Peak Cluster needs to develop the project itself; it is not a Government-backed project. This Government have made more progress on carbon capture and storage than has been made in the last 20 years. If the right hon. Lady’s colleagues and constituents want to hear more about it, please fee…”

“As I am the one answering the hon. Member’s question, I cannot comment on those decisions. The OBR has put forward various reports to look at the impacts of climate change on our economy, and the value of investment versus the cost of inaction. The OBR has been incredibly helpful, as have various parts of our financial…”