Best quotes by Ed Davey on Change

Checkout quotes by Ed Davey on Change

• ‟ We won't rescue humanity from self-destruction without a dramatic change in how we invest for our future energy needs.

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• ‟ Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the 'Britain standing alone' motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit future in which Britain stands without trading partners or allies to tackle climate change.

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• ‟ Tackling climate change is not a luxury for the good times: for good and bad times it has become a necessity - but necessity is the mother of invention.

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• ‟ When I was energy and climate change secretary I sat around a cabinet table with Gove, and he couldn't help playing to the Tory climate-sceptic audience. As education secretary, he tried to ban climate change from the geography curriculum. After an angry exchange of letters with me, he eventually backed down.

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• ‟ Just as Donald Trump is abrogating America's responsibility to lead the fight against climate change, Theresa May is evading Britain's role.

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• ‟ The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.

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• ‟ We have been developing an ever closer relationship with China on climate change for many years which has led to collaboration on carbon trading, offshore wind development, on low-carbon buildings, on nuclear energy, and on carbon capture and storage - to name just some of the ways in which we're working together.

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• ‟ A credible and effective response to climate change - which protects future generations from an unacceptable level of risk - needs the involvement of all countries.

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• ‟ Climate change is putting pressures on the resources we need to survive: water; agricultural land; food.

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• ‟ On climate change, Britain is leading in Europe.

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• ‟ Ed Miliband rails against energy companies and says the market isn't working. But wasn't he Britain's first secretary of state for energy and climate change in 2008?

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• ‟ Climate change is hugely threatening to our way of life, in the U.K., Europe and the world.

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• ‟ What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn't lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don't lead, no one else is going to.

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• ‟ What's most disappointing about May's failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.

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• ‟ We should be redoubling our own efforts to combat climate change, not watering them down.

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• ‟ Climate change remains the biggest threat to our civilisation, economy and security - even bigger than Brexit.

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• ‟ My experience as energy and climate change secretary - in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment in low carbon, and in the daily attrition with Eric Pickles over onshore wind - was that many Conservatives simply regard their commitment to climate change action as something they had to say to get into power.

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• ‟ When I fought the Tories over climate change and won, more than trebling renewable power with a new subsidy policy combining state intervention with competitive market forces, it was world-beatingly radical.

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