Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
We need to be investing in the low-carbon technologies that are creating the apprenticeships and skilled jobs of the future. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
The more we engage with others, the more we find people with whom we do not share the values and truths that we consider so fundamental. In virtual places, by contrast, we are able to select the precise individuals with whom we associate to ensure that we obtain the affirmation we require. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned from it. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
The pluralist society must be pragmatic. It does not say that ‘God is dead.’ It does not say that ‘God is alive.’ It says if we are to answer the question of how we can live together then we must remain agnostic on all such matters – at least so far as our civic association is structured. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based on an independent impact assessment of what social, economic and environmental risks might be expected. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
We recognise the link between environmental failure and social injustice. When the energy sector is privatised and deregulated, it not only tends to pollute more, it also charges the poorest more per unit! Barry Gardiner Read Quote
The basis for securing preferential future trade terms with India begins in that recognition of essential equality. Indeed it begins in recognising that India is now an emerging global superpower whose primary interests are regional in South East Asia and who needs a deal with the U.K. less than we need one with her. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
The U.K. should see overseas aid as an investment in the future potential of a market and shouldn’t be used as a stick to bash trading partners and strategic allies with. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
