Climate Change Debate | Peter Lilley MP | Proposition

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The Motion: This House Believes The West Has No Right to Impose Environmental Standards on Developing Countries

Peter Lilley MP continues the case for the proposition, as the third speaker of six in the debate.

Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden since 1983. A former Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, he served as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under Margaret Thatcher, and currently serves on the Environmental Audit Select Committee.

The motion was defeated.

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[jonasuk]

Excellent analysis by the right hon. Peter Lilley. The African people deserve a higher standard of living. Why should the rich countries be the only ones to benefit from plentiful electricity . What is also important to note is that developing countries relies heavily on burning vegetation including wood which is the worst kind of energy for the environment.

[krutibhavsar]

Why don't we talk about the actual reasons, the roots of Climate change and related impacts.... It starts with the development of Industrial growth, started and evolved in the west. Simply put: This reason, is enough for this argument that "the west has no right to impose any climate (related) regulations, indeed we need to work as a global community and all nations should work, act and do whatever they can, but imposing Doesn't really make sense ...! Studying environmental science, climate science, industrialization and related event of the human history and it's current state of the I find this idea very wrong, immoral and irresponsible.

[T.O.P]

"Sunny countries like Africa..." Hopefully the president chastised him for that one...

[casperhorton]

Madly myopic. What good is a coal power station for South Africa if they can't grow food. If supply chains for food fail for just three days, society collapses. Multiple bread-basket failure is the cost of climate change. Let's hope at his age Peter has an allotment ready for that future. His fossil fuel lobbying has made it more likely.

[fatsamcastle]

sorry buddy but it's a debate about climate change, not abolishing the poor.