Climate Change

Baroness Williams of Crosby Excerpts

Tuesday 13th May 2014 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Warsi]

I pay tribute to the Members of the Climate Parliament, which is clearly a noble group of people.

[Baroness Williams of Crosby (LD)]

My Lords, does the noble Baroness agree that one of the key findings of the United States climate change report is that the process of climate change is now much faster than we had expected it to be? The effects are predicted to fall within a matter of a decade or so, rather than 20 or 30 years from now. Given that, will she persuade her friendly Secretary of State for Education to ensure that children in school are made more aware of the absolute necessity of tackling climate change than they are at present?

[Baroness Warsi]

I will, of course, pass those comments on. It will take a whole generation to deal with one of the biggest challenges for our generation. As my noble friend said, it takes time between emissions going down and the real impact that that will then have in terms of keeping the global temperature down. The concerns at the moment are that the knock-on impact will be much greater than originally anticipated.