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Trade negotiations require compromise.
Adaptation is the forgotten word of climate change.
The road to the Paris climate talks has been paved across decades.
The future can be just and green - not corruption-mired and polluted.
It is hard to imagine a world without bees. It would be even harder to live in it.
Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.
An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it.
Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.
The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.
We must learn the lessons of the 2008 crash: no company should be able to become too big to fail.
When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car each week.
Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods.
After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.
Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like.
Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future.
Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for.
Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.
No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors.
Whether you're a banker or a botanist - the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling.
As the cost of renewables plummets, the clean energy transition is increasingly driven by the business case.
It appears that President Trump wishes to disrupt the global multilateral trading system as much as possible.
Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.
Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the 'worst trade deal ever made.'
We need to be investing in the low-carbon technologies that are creating the apprenticeships and skilled jobs of the future.
In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.
Fracking locks the U.K. into an industry that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to renewables.
A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and factories.
Even if Trump leaves the Paris Agreement or the U.N. climate process entirely, the issue will be unavoidable at G7 and G20 level.
Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.
Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.
Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes.
The costs of solar energy across the world have come down so fast that its growth as a cheap, clean energy source has been exponential.
Climate change is a shared crisis - one that transcends politics and borders and must be fought collectively, justly and transparently.
The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.
We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.
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?
Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.
Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.
Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets.
A Brexit that works for Britain needs to work for small businesses and must ensure that our future trade deals don't just work for big business.
Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.
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.'
We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.
Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned from it.
As we pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide, making the seawater acidic and hostile for shellfish and corals.
It used to be an article of faith held across parliament that the government should be 'technology neutral' to achieve cost-effective decarbonisation.
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.
We're fighting for community energy initiatives, warmer homes and crucial flood defences - and fiercely opposing the Government's assault on renewables.
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.
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.