The media when it focuses on climate change at all, does so in terms of carbon emissions and how to reduce them.… — Barry Gardiner Carbon emissions Copy Share Image
Whether you're a banker or a botanist - the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling. — Barry Gardiner Banker Copy Share Image
Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the… — Barry Gardiner Business Copy Share Image
Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes. — Barry Gardiner Courts Copy Share Image
Poor decision making in government; the tragedy of short-term economic thinking; our national housing crisis: these are real 21st Century problems for… — Barry Gardiner Decision Copy Share Image
Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we… — Barry Gardiner Fossil fuel Copy Share Image
As the cost of renewables plummets, the clean energy transition is increasingly driven by the business case. — Barry Gardiner Business Copy Share Image
Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods. — Barry Gardiner Change Copy Share Image
Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for. — Barry Gardiner Binary Copy Share Image
Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should… — Barry Gardiner Failure Copy Share Image
When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car… — Barry Gardiner Car Copy Share Image
Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages. — Barry Gardiner America Copy Share Image
If government is so keen to let local people have a veto in stopping wind farms, why does it not allow local… — Barry Gardiner Allow Copy Share Image
Labour must evince a positive vision for the future of our country outside the E.U. One that is consistent with the leave… — Barry Gardiner Country Copy Share Image
Labour's Climate Change Act and our other reforms, including the Green Investment Bank, have been the foundation for the huge growth of… — Barry Gardiner Bank Copy Share Image
Public demand for better services requires increased revenue, but international market competition for capital and labour drives down the ability of any… — Barry Gardiner Ability Copy Share Image
The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on… — Barry Gardiner Best Copy Share Image
Like so many free trade deals before and since, Nafta was sold as a massive opportunity for working people and their prospects.… — Barry Gardiner Free Copy Share Image
Making the most of global trade opportunities does not mean transitioning to a low-tax, deregulatory, 'Bargain Basement' economy. It means developing a… — Barry Gardiner Developing Copy Share Image
Classical economics values things by seeing how much someone will pay for them. But this is where classical economics is wrong. What… — Barry Gardiner Economics Copy Share Image
Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human. — Barry Gardiner Face Copy Share Image
U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets,… — Barry Gardiner British Copy Share Image
A Land Valuation Tax is a levy on the value of the land unimproved by buildings or other enhancement. The method is… — Barry Gardiner Buildings Copy Share Image
In the Labour Party we are absolutely united in our belief that shipping must define its 'fair share' of tackling climate change,… — Barry Gardiner Belief Copy Share Image
