Barry Gardiner

The road to the Paris climate talks has been paved across decades.

— Barry Gardiner

Trade policy can be a tool for change and progress.

— Barry Gardiner

Adaptation is the forgotten word of climate change.

— Barry Gardiner

The future can be just and green - not corruption-mired and polluted.

— Barry Gardiner

Trade negotiations require compromise.

— Barry Gardiner

Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.

— Barry Gardiner

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

— Barry Gardiner

Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

— Barry Gardiner

Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for.

— Barry Gardiner

The costs of solar energy across the world have come down so fast that its growth as a cheap, clean energy source…

— Barry Gardiner

It appears that President Trump wishes to disrupt the global multilateral trading system as much as possible.

— Barry Gardiner

As the cost of renewables plummets, the clean energy transition is increasingly driven by the business case.

— Barry Gardiner

Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets.

— Barry Gardiner

Public demand for better services requires increased revenue, but international market competition for capital and labour drives down the ability of any…

— Barry Gardiner

We need robust sustainability regulations for shipping that are internationally recognised and respected. This will ensure shipping plays its part in the…

— Barry Gardiner

We must commit to a positive programme of ocean recovery to combat the effects of climate breakdown, and boost our oceans' capacity…

— Barry Gardiner

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

We're fighting for community energy initiatives, warmer homes and crucial flood defences - and fiercely opposing the Government's assault on renewables.

— Barry Gardiner

World leaders need to work together through the rules-based system of the WTO to tackle unfair practices, including the widespread dumping of…

— Barry Gardiner

We recognise the need for government to provide a clear and stable regulatory framework so as to release the investment power of…

— Barry Gardiner

The more we engage with others, the more we find people with whom we do not share the values and truths that…

— Barry Gardiner

A Land Valuation Tax is a levy on the value of the land unimproved by buildings or other enhancement. The method is…

— Barry Gardiner

The shipping industry plays a fundamental role in boosting global trade and prosperity. Maritime leaders have rightly recognised the need to invest…

— Barry Gardiner

We all know the principle that the polluter pays? Well one day I got to wondering why it is that the polluter…

— Barry Gardiner

GDP has been a con perpetrated upon the poor of the world: a measure of economic activity and not of actual wealth.…

— Barry Gardiner

The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on…

— Barry Gardiner

Science tells us we need to keep the majority of fossil fuels in the ground, and that we must urgently invest in…

— Barry Gardiner

Classical economics values things by seeing how much someone will pay for them. But this is where classical economics is wrong. What…

— Barry Gardiner

The basis for securing preferential future trade terms with India begins in that recognition of essential equality. Indeed it begins in recognising…

— Barry Gardiner

We need to be investing in the low-carbon technologies that are creating the apprenticeships and skilled jobs of the future.

— Barry Gardiner

As we pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide, making the seawater acidic and hostile for shellfish and…

— Barry Gardiner

It is hard to imagine a world without bees. It would be even harder to live in it.

— Barry Gardiner

In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.

— Barry Gardiner

Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean…

— Barry Gardiner

If government is so keen to let local people have a veto in stopping wind farms, why does it not allow local…

— Barry Gardiner

We must learn the lessons of the 2008 crash: no company should be able to become too big to fail.

— Barry Gardiner

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.

— Barry Gardiner

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the…

— Barry Gardiner

Even if Trump leaves the Paris Agreement or the U.N. climate process entirely, the issue will be unavoidable at G7 and G20…

— Barry Gardiner

After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.

— Barry Gardiner