Barry Gardiner Quotes

Barry Gardiner

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 10, 1957

Trade policy can be a tool for change and progress.

Barry Gardiner

If government is so keen to let local people have a veto in stopping wind farms, why does it not allow local people to say no to fracking?

Barry Gardiner

The pluralist society must be pragmatic. It does not say that 'God is dead.' It does not say that 'God is alive.' It says if we are to answer the question of how we can live together then we must remain agnostic on all such matters - at least so far as our civic association is structured.

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We need to be investing in the low-carbon technologies that are creating the apprenticeships and skilled jobs of the future.

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Climate change must be approached as an opportunity to transition our economy to a zero carbon future. Business understands this even when governments don't.

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The future can be just and green - not corruption-mired and polluted.

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We have never believed that any potential future benefits from fracking make it acceptable for the government to bulldoze over the concerns of local communities or the very real environmental dangers that can occur as a result of weak safeguards controlling the technical process.

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Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets.

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The problem with climate change has always been that whilst political timeframes and economic investment timeframes work on a 3-5year cycle, the planet needs a rather longer term view.

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Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.

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As the cost of renewables plummets, the clean energy transition is increasingly driven by the business case.

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The unpopularity of raising corporate or personal income tax has been a straight jacket constraining Labour's thinking on how best to invest and grow the economy.

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We all know the principle that the polluter pays? Well one day I got to wondering why it is that the polluter seems to get away with it quite so often! Then it occurred to me that if the polluter is going to pay, somebody needs to tell him how much. The proper valuation of natural capital will enable us to say how much.

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Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like.

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In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.

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It used to be an article of faith held across parliament that the government should be 'technology neutral' to achieve cost-effective decarbonisation.

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The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

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Fracking locks the U.K. into an industry that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to renewables.

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Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

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Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.

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