Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Ed Davey
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn't lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don't lead, no one else is going to.
We need to invest in home-grown clean energy that will bring cheaper prices in the long run, shielding consumers from volatile international fossil fuel markets.
Nuclear represents a significant low-carbon opportunity. The electricity it produces is green and reliable.
I can't stand by, the Liberal Democrats will not stand by, to see disabled people lose their rights, lose the care they need, when they need it the most.
On climate change, Britain is leading in Europe.
One of the most exciting opportunities created by renewable energy technologies like solar is the ability to help the world's poorest develop faster - but more sustainably too.
Climate change is hugely threatening to our way of life, in the U.K., Europe and the world.
Jeremy Corbyn's policy on Brexit has failed to unite his own Labour MPs and has been rightly castigated for lacking any clear course.
Climate change remains the biggest threat to our civilisation, economy and security - even bigger than Brexit.
When I was energy and climate change secretary I sat around a cabinet table with Gove, and he couldn't help playing to the Tory climate-sceptic audience. As education secretary, he tried to ban climate change from the geography curriculum. After an angry exchange of letters with me, he eventually backed down.
Caring is tough.
My grandfather was like a father figure to me.
Just as Donald Trump is abrogating America's responsibility to lead the fight against climate change, Theresa May is evading Britain's role.
The truth is, it was my Nanna and Grandad who helped me get over my mum's death. Surrounding me with infinite, unquestioning love, they were classic kinship carers.
I'm proud to have led the brokering of the ambitious 2030 climate package in the European Union to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40%, which puts the E.U. ahead of the global pack in terms of commitments.
A credible and effective response to climate change - which protects future generations from an unacceptable level of risk - needs the involvement of all countries.
What's most disappointing about May's failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.
Putting Michael Gove in charge of the Department of the Environment is much like putting a wolf in charge of the chicken coop.
When I fought the Tories over climate change and won, more than trebling renewable power with a new subsidy policy combining state intervention with competitive market forces, it was world-beatingly radical.
My experience as energy and climate change secretary - in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment in low carbon, and in the daily attrition with Eric Pickles over onshore wind - was that many Conservatives simply regard their commitment to climate change action as something they had to say to get into power.
We fought hard for green taxes and won.
We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge.
There is nothing triumphant or boastful in the way we mourn the dead and pay our veterans the respect they deserve.
Not having a roof over your head at night must be frightening, cold, lonely and depressing. To be seriously ill as well must be beyond upsetting.
Whenever there's a big national event that brings the country together - whether it's the Olympics, a royal wedding or the 'Bake Off' final - there are inevitably a few contrarian voices speaking out against it.
We are strong supporters of energy efficiency. The question is: what is the most appropriate way of doing it?
The Tories wanted to get rid of fuel poverty targets. I stopped them.
We have been developing an ever closer relationship with China on climate change for many years which has led to collaboration on carbon trading, offshore wind development, on low-carbon buildings, on nuclear energy, and on carbon capture and storage - to name just some of the ways in which we're working together.
The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.
Our party's greatest achievements have always been delivered from the radical centre-left.
Climate change is putting pressures on the resources we need to survive: water; agricultural land; food.
Britain needs a diverse energy mix - home grown renewables, new nuclear, a switch from dirty coal to cleaner gas, and, when the technology is ready, carbon capture and storage. Diversity will keep the lights on and ensure we go green at the lowest possible cost.
We should be redoubling our own efforts to combat climate change, not watering them down.
When we fight to uphold the rule of law, it's vital we uphold the rule of law as we fight. Otherwise we simply play into the hands of the terrorists and undermine our values and system of justice.
Britain's energy markets were a mess in 2010.
Abuse of human rights and international law demand resolution - whoever is responsible.
I am not going to give up on renewable energy.
People need to understand what a party is about. And you can't define a party by an issue which will go, which is transitional.
If we can speed up the deployment of clean energy technologies in developing countries with investments from the Green Climate Fund, hundreds of millions of people will be able to access electricity for the first time - with all the education, health, communication and entrepreneurial opportunities electricity enables.
Any genuine progressive should work together to stop Brexit - this is a national emergency, requiring national cooperation.
Witnessing injustice, in person, leaves an indelible mark.
I am an anti-Conservative politician, and that's how I would lead our party.
When I visited Jerusalem and the West Bank back in 2008, I was shocked by how individual Palestinians and whole Palestinian communities were treated by the Israeli government. From the illegal settlements to daily humiliations at checkpoints, the evidence of gross injustice and the human suffering it brings is indisputable.
From Nato to the U.N. and the E.U., the generation that lived through the first half of the 20th century knew they needed to create a new world order. An order with rules and institutions which, however imperfect, could act both as constraints on individual countries going rogue and as catalysts for co-operation for mutual benefit.
Alongside energy efficiency, renewables and abatement, I believe safe nuclear power, with manageable waste, can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as long as it is cost competitive with other low carbon generation.
In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably bound with that of our neighbours.
I'd say that I'm a pro-European.
We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.
British civil society has a fantastic record of campaigning to push politicians of all colours and countries to step up on climate.
We now have the economics confirming that not only is climate action required to reduce climate risks, but that it is vital to building long-term, sustainable economic growth.
Carers' are all sorts of people. With so many different caring roles.
Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the 'Britain standing alone' motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit future in which Britain stands without trading partners or allies to tackle climate change.
I don't ever talk about red lines whether in coalition negotiations with other partners or in Europe. It is important that we listen to others and find a way forward.
Ed Miliband rails against energy companies and says the market isn't working. But wasn't he Britain's first secretary of state for energy and climate change in 2008?
I've been a young carer, an adult carer and a parent carer.
Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.
Liberal Democrats will not rest until we have stopped Brexit.
My dad had died when I was four, so after my mum passed away, it was her parents - my amazing Nanna and Grandad - who took me in.
By leading on a strong emissions reduction target, the U.K. is persuading others on the need for member states to have the freedom and flexibility to develop their own energy mix to achieve these ambitious reductions.
We won't rescue humanity from self-destruction without a dramatic change in how we invest for our future energy needs.
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