Restoring Nature and Climate Change

Bambos Charalambous Excerpts
Monday 28th October 2019

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Daniel Zeichner Portrait Daniel Zeichner
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The right hon. and learned Gentleman is right. I am about to embark on a tour of wetlands; Wicken Fen will be one of them. This summer we have seen some particular problems with a number of streams drying up, so we need a plan for water.

Bambos Charalambous Portrait Bambos Charalambous (Enfield, Southgate) (Lab)
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Is my hon. Friend aware of the 2018 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the 2019 report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services that show that nature and climate crisis are inextricably linked? The IPBES report says that 1 million species globally are at risk of extinction. Does he agree that nature-based solutions are a fundamental way of stopping climate change and preventing the extinction of species?

Daniel Zeichner Portrait Daniel Zeichner
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My hon. Friend is right; I will come to some of those points later.