Quotes by Barry Gardiner - Page 2

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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Corporate
Income Tax
Invest
Jacket
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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.
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Debate
House Of Commons
Labour
Parliament
Believes
Commons
Floor
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Labour's Climate Change Act and our other reforms, including the Green Investment Bank, have been the foundation for the huge growth of Britain's green industries.
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Climate Change
Labour
Bank
Industries
Reforms
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Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we must shift away from fossil fuels.
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Benign
Urgency
Counter
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Pose
Runs
Shift
Sources
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Leaving the E.U. with no trade deal is the worst possible option. It will condemn British exporters to the full range of tariffs and barriers that apply under WTO rules.
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Barriers
Range
Condemn
Option
Wto
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The U.K. should see overseas aid as an investment in the future potential of a market and shouldn't be used as a stick to bash trading partners and strategic allies with.
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Allies
Bash
Partners
Strategic
Trading
Aid
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The Tories are trying to lock the country into the old, dirty technologies that harm our communities and the people who are forced to live with disruption on their doorstep.
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Disruption
Doorstep
Harm
Live People Country
Forced
Country People Live
Lock
Technologies
Tories
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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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Climate Change
Investment
Term
Change Work Always
Change Work Political
Cycle
Planet
The Problem With
Whilst
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We recognise the need for government to provide a clear and stable regulatory framework so as to release the investment power of business in order to deliver progressive public policy.
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Framework
Public Policy
Recognise
Stable
Deliver
Regulatory
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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.
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Climate Change
Emissions
Fair Share
Labour Party
Reduction
Shipping
Tackling
Change Climate Climate Change
Change Must Climate
Define
Sector
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World leaders need to work together through the rules-based system of the WTO to tackle unfair practices, including the widespread dumping of steel on world markets at less than market price.
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Steel
Work Together World
Dumping
Widespread
Practices
Tackle
Work Together
World Leaders
Wto
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We need robust sustainability regulations for shipping that are internationally recognised and respected. This will ensure shipping plays its part in the global transition to carbon neutrality.
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Carbon
Neutrality
Robust
Shipping
Sustainability
Ensure
Global
Internationally
Plays
Recognised
Regulations
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The Tories' favoured trade deals post-Brexit are likely to make regional inequality worse, by focusing on the best deal for the City of London at the expense of smaller firms across the country.
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Deals
Inequality
Expense
Focusing
Regional
Smaller
Tories
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We engage in the public institutions of work and school and club and team, because it is there that we find meaning and purpose. But sometimes when we engage, we find confrontation not affirmation.
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Affirmation
Confrontation
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The most important thing to understand about Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement is, whilst it undeniably damages the rest of the world, it does most damage to America itself.
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Climate Change
Damage
Withdrawal
Change World Important
Whilst
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We recognise the link between environmental failure and social injustice. When the energy sector is privatised and deregulated, it not only tends to pollute more, it also charges the poorest more per unit!
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Environmental
Injustice
Poorest
Recognise
Social Injustice
Charges
Deregulated
Link
Sector
Tends
Unit
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Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.
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Permanent
Subsidies
Feature
Gradually
Introduced
Withdrawn
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Dictators have an old trick to assess the strength of their opposition: they say something patently untrue, and then look to see who mindlessly repeats it. Those who do, they recognise as their true supporters.
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Recognise
Repeats
Untrue
Assess
Dictators
Trick
Patently
Supporters
They Say
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Public demand for better services requires increased revenue, but international market competition for capital and labour drives down the ability of any one country to raise either corporate or personal income tax.
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Corporate
Demand
Income
Income Tax
International
Labour
Revenue
Tax
Capital
Drives
Market
One Country
Raise
Requires
Services
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You cannot send battleships in to stop the destruction of a rainforest. But you can spend money on clean technology transfer that enables countries to bring their people out of poverty without polluting their future.
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Destruction
Enables
Polluting
Transfer
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Making the most of global trade opportunities does not mean transitioning to a low-tax, deregulatory, 'Bargain Basement' economy. It means developing a robust Industrial Strategy intertwined with a strong trade agenda.
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Developing
Intertwined
Robust
Strategy
Agenda
Bargain
Basement
Industrial
Transitioning
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Climate change brings pressures that will influence resource competition between nations and place additional burdens on economies, societies and governance institutions around the globe. These effects are threat multipliers.
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Climate Change
Governance
Additional
Burdens
Economies
Globe
Societies
Pressures
Resource
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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.
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Objectives
Voters
Positive Future Vision
Conservatives
Sacrificing
Threaten
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The Paris Agreement makes it impossible for any country or any sector to say climate change isn't their problem. It has created unprecedented momentum for all sectors in all countries to take action and be part of the solution.
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Action
Agreement
Climate Change
Impossible
Momentum
Unprecedented
Countries
Solution
Sector
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MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based on an independent impact assessment of what social, economic and environmental risks might be expected.
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Environmental
Agreement
Assessment
Debate
Economic
Impact
Independent
Negotiation
Amend
Approve
Based
Mandate
Talks
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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.
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Commute
Less Money
Polluted
Roads
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Whilst the developed world may say it wants to see much greater commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this may only be politically feasible if there is strong support for adaptation measures in those countries at greatest immediate risk.
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Adaptation
Emissions
Gas
Developed World
Feasible
Greenhouse
Immediate
Measures
Politically
Reduce
Strong Support
Whilst
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As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching events that can wipe out entire reefs. This destroys the habitat that supports a quarter of all marine life.
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Events
Habitat
Hotter
Marine
Skeletons
Wipe
Get
Also
Destroys
Coral
Entire
Expel
Oceans
Quarter
Resulting
Supports
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Like so many free trade deals before and since, Nafta was sold as a massive opportunity for working people and their prospects. Forecasts spoke of hundreds of thousands of new jobs in all three countries. The reality could not have been more different.
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Deals
Forecasts
Free Trade
Nafta
Prospects
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
New Jobs
Sold
Spoke
Working People
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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.
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Bridges
Climate Change
Damage
Disruptive
Drought
Extremes
Flood
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Obvious
Patterns
Weather
Change Risks Climate
Buildings
Railways
Roads
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The media when it focuses on climate change at all, does so in terms of carbon emissions and how to reduce them. Only rarely do our leaders advance arguments about adapting our environment and our economy to the effects of climate change that are already inevitable.
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Adapting
Carbon
Climate Change
Effects
Emissions
Advance
Reduce
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Poor decision making in government; the tragedy of short-term economic thinking; our national housing crisis: these are real 21st Century problems for our country. They are problems that can only be solved by genuinely fearless thinking about our natural environment.
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Crisis
Decision
Economic
Environment
Housing
Natural Environment
Poor
Short Term
Thinking
Tragedy
Genuinely
National
Problems
Solved
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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.
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Assessment
Climate Change
Report
Breed
Suggest
Swiftly
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Treaties negotiated with foreign powers create binding obligations on future generations that cannot be repealed in the way that domestic law can. As a consequence, the most rigorous process should be in place to scrutinise such treaties before they ever come to be ratified.
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Binding
Consequence
Generations
Treaties
Domestic
Foreign Powers
Future Generations
Obligations
Powers
Rigorous
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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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Environmental
Acceptable
Weak
Bulldoze
Concerns
Controlling
Occur
Safeguards
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Thanks to David Attenborough and 'Blue Planet 2,' we've become aware of the damage to our oceans from plastic pollution. We now know to use textile shopping bags instead of plastic, reuse coffee-cups and refuse polystyrene ones, and avoid plastic straws when ordering a drink at the bar.
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Bags
Damage
Plastic
Pollution
Shopping
Thanks
Bar
Oceans
Ordering
Textile
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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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Agnostic
Association
Civic
Structured
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The more we engage with others, the more we find people with whom we do not share the values and truths that we consider so fundamental. In virtual places, by contrast, we are able to select the precise individuals with whom we associate to ensure that we obtain the affirmation we require.
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Affirmation
Contrast
Precise
Select
People Find More
Associate
Ensure
Obtain
Require
Truths
Virtual
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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.
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Equality
Clean Air
Climate Change
Economic Growth
Flooding
Fuel
Scandal
Addressing
Begins
Sustainable
Protects
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U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets, business and enterprise, to boost labour standards and rights and, ultimately, to boost the incomes of the poorest which, in the long term, boosts demand for British goods and services.
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Boost
Demand
Goods
Labour
Partners
Poorest
Standards
Aid
Work Business Long
Incomes
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We are patriotic enough to believe there is no good reason why foreign investors from Europe cannot be expected to resolve any disputes fairly through British justice, operating through British courts. And we are European enough to think that our companies can do the same by relying on European courts.
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Disputes
Investors
Patriotic
Resolve
Fairly
Good Believe Enough
Courts
Good Reason
Operating
Relying
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A Land Valuation Tax is a levy on the value of the land unimproved by buildings or other enhancement. The method is already used by insurance companies each year when they calculate your home insurance premium - they separate the cost of a total rebuild of the property from the value of the land itself.
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Enhancement
Insurance Companies
Method
Premium
Home Your Value
Buildings
Calculate
Each Year
Insurance
Rebuild
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GDP has been a con perpetrated upon the poor of the world: a measure of economic activity and not of actual wealth. What it masks is the way in which we transform their natural capital into our consumption through international rules that regard the ecosystem services upon which they rely as mere externalities.
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Consumption
Gdp
Mere
Regard
Rely
Con
Economic Activity
Masks
Measure
Transform
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The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on what is best for our country and our economy. Their absurd proposal that the U.K. should become the E.U.'s tariff collector is neither practical nor palatable across the Channel.
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Absurd
Country
Economy
Ideological
Obsession
Party
Proposal
Across
Brexit
Channel
Collector
Divisions
Focusing
Internal
Neither
Nor
Practical
Start
Tariff
Tories
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The shipping industry plays a fundamental role in boosting global trade and prosperity. Maritime leaders have rightly recognised the need to invest in more energy-efficient vessels and to apply measures like slow-steaming. But to ensure a level playing field, collective action is urgently needed across the sector.
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Action
Industry
Level Playing Field
Maritime
Needed
Prosperity
Shipping
Trade
Across
Apply
Collective
Invest
Ensure
Field
Fundamental
Global
Leaders
Measures
Playing Field
Recognised
Rightly
Role
Sector
Urgently
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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.
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Asia
East Asia
Emerging
Recognition
Begins
Regional
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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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Me Day Will
Enable
Occurred
Principle
Wondering
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Science tells us we need to keep the majority of fossil fuels in the ground, and that we must urgently invest in renewable energy, and other alternative industries. Doing so would create millions of jobs, ensure a fair transition for fossil fuel workers into new industries, and avert the most catastrophic climate breakdown.
Barry Gardiner /
Jobs
Science
Avert
Breakdown
Climate
Energy
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Majority
Millions
Renewable Energy
Transition
Workers
Alternative
Catastrophic
Invest
Create
Ensure
Fair
Fossil
Ground
Industries
Renewable
Tells
Urgently
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Classical economics values things by seeing how much someone will pay for them. But this is where classical economics is wrong. What it fails to account for are all the 'externalities' - the services people regard as free goods: pollination services, flood protection, climate regulation, soil stabilization, carbon sequestration.
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Carbon
Flood
Goods
Protection
Regard
Soil
Account
Classical
Fails
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