Barry joined colleagues from across the House for a Backbench Business debate this afternoon to discuss the pressing need to keep global temperatures to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. This debate comes less than two weeks before COP26, which the UK Government will host in Glasgow. Barry spoke of the importance of the ‘Green Grids’ initiative he is championing with the Climate Parliament group which will aim to create a connected electricity grid across many countries in the global South harnessing wind, solar and tidal energy. He also spoke about some of the plans in the Government’s Net Zero Strategy released on Tuesday, including nuclear which is not as cost-effective as renewable sources.
You can watch his full speech below.