Quotes from Barry Gardiner

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

Labour believes that every trade deal should come before parliament for a full debate on the floor of the House of Commons, with a vote at the end of that debate.

No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors.

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

Labour must evince a positive vision for the future of our country outside the E.U. One that is consistent with the leave voters' objectives, without sacrificing our rights and protections, as the Conservatives threaten to do.

It is hard to imagine a world without bees. It would be even harder to live in it.

An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it.

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

We're fighting for community energy initiatives, warmer homes and crucial flood defences - and fiercely opposing the Government's assault on renewables.

The basis for securing preferential future trade terms with India begins in that recognition of essential equality. Indeed it begins in recognising that India is now an emerging global superpower whose primary interests are regional in South East Asia and who needs a deal with the U.K. less than we need one with her.

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.

Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned from it.

The less money you have the more likely you are to live close to polluted roads. Most of us cannot choose to move further away from a main road or add another 40 minutes to our commute so that we can live in a quiet, clean, leafy street.

Whether you're a banker or a botanist - the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling.

Addressing climate change globally promotes health, education and gender equality. Addressing it domestically secures U.K. jobs and sustainable clean economic growth; it protects communities from flooding and the scandal of fuel poverty. It begins to see clean air flow in our cities and schools.

Climate change is real and anthropogenic; and the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC has left the deniers little room for manoeuvre, but they are swiftly morphing into a new breed that accept the climate is changing but like to suggest this may have positive benefits.

The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the physical infrastructure of buildings and bridges roads and railways. They are violent and disruptive.

Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods.

When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car each week.

A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and factories.

We must learn the lessons of the 2008 crash: no company should be able to become too big to fail.

We must commit to a positive programme of ocean recovery to combat the effects of climate breakdown, and boost our oceans' capacity to tackle climate change.

The Paris Agreement is a highly significant step in tackling climate change - but a piece of paper will not save the world. It is not 'job done.'

In the Labour Party we are absolutely united in our belief that shipping must define its 'fair share' of tackling climate change, and develop an emissions reduction plan for the sector.