Speeches by Collinge.

“We have heard other evidence that says that messages about climate change come best from people who are already trusted. Given that the level of trust in the NHS is very high, do you think it would be wise to use the NHS to roll out messages, not just about health but about the climate change that is causing health dam…”

“I’m sorry—is that because of the impact on services and how they behave, or on individuals?”

“I want to pick up on something you said about people not thinking that heat risks apply to them. We know that you can mitigate some of the health impacts of heat through behavioural change. Do you think that people in the UK know how to change their behaviour or environment, and are they doing it?”

“Finally, I am wondering about the cultural elements around farming and agriculture, and the wider discussion around climate change. As one of my farmers put it to me, “These bloody vegans are blaming us for everything.” What would you say to that? Are there cultural barriers, and if so, how do we tackle them?”

“Can I ask you about a specific technology? I have a constituency-based business that does anaerobic digestion and burning of methane. What are your thoughts on that technology and its use?”

“I am interested in how farmers and the agricultural sector are plugged into this transition. We know that farming puts out a lot of methane and nitrous oxide—a bit less of carbon, in terms of percentages. Judicaelle, are the Government’s current policies successfully incorporating farmers into the energy transition? Wh…”

“Sorry, what I was trying to get at was that in communities that have not had energy before, we see support for the clean energy transition dropping when it looks as if stuff is going to be built there. Yet we have communities who already have a lot of infrastructure who do not care and are very happy with it. How do we…”

“Perhaps I could have a conversation with you later about the semi-urban population density criteria, because that is a barrier, but that is possibly not for today.”

“I am interested in existing energy communities and how we use them to support the transition. We know the new energy system will have to be more distributed and go to sites where there has not been energy before. I live within a mile of a small wind farm, a huge substation and two nuclear power stations. How do we use …”

“Where do you think it fits?”

“On anaerobic digesters, do the same barriers that you talked about apply when they are for generating electricity on site? Those are the ones that I have looked at most, and the idea was supposed to be that they used waste from that farm or a few farms locally and generated electricity. In response to a written questio…”

“It’s not quite as simple as that.”

“Some of the research we saw talked about IT failures and the ability of systems to cope.”

“The witness covered the impact on not just people but the systems of the NHS in earlier answers. To be clear, we talked about ward closures and so on, and the impact of increased demand; would any other system impacts of climate change on the NHS, whether in respect of infrastructure or otherwise, impact its ability to…”

“We have heard other evidence that says that messages about climate change come best from people who are already trusted. Given that the level of trust in the NHS is very high, do you think it would be wise to use the NHS to roll out messages, not just about health but about the climate change that is causing health dam…”

“I’m sorry—is that because of the impact on services and how they behave, or on individuals?”

“I want to pick up on something you said about people not thinking that heat risks apply to them. We know that you can mitigate some of the health impacts of heat through behavioural change. Do you think that people in the UK know how to change their behaviour or environment, and are they doing it?”

“Finally, I am wondering about the cultural elements around farming and agriculture, and the wider discussion around climate change. As one of my farmers put it to me, “These bloody vegans are blaming us for everything.” What would you say to that? Are there cultural barriers, and if so, how do we tackle them?”

“Can I ask you about a specific technology? I have a constituency-based business that does anaerobic digestion and burning of methane. What are your thoughts on that technology and its use?”

“I am interested in how farmers and the agricultural sector are plugged into this transition. We know that farming puts out a lot of methane and nitrous oxide—a bit less of carbon, in terms of percentages. Judicaelle, are the Government’s current policies successfully incorporating farmers into the energy transition? Wh…”