Turning the Climate Crisis into an opportunity - for investment, clean and green technology and jobs - is a matter of leadership".

The pilot scheme that is being supported by the Government to have a carbon capture and storage plant up and running by 2014 will not happen quickly enough, and if we really want to tackle the Climate Crisis the scheme should be progressed faster.

Most political attention is focused on the economic crisis that we are all living through, but we must not in the course of it lose sight of the Climate Crisis.

He made it clear that our party has taken the two opportunities given to us by good fortune this year, through the private Members' Bill ballot, to come forward with practical proposals to deal with the Climate Crisis that we face.

The global recession, the Climate Crisis and ongoing conflict and fragility in many countries threaten now to turn back the clock on the development gains made since the beginning of this century.

Just to clarify, the first debate on that day is entitled "Government's Betrayal of Equitable Life Policyholders", and that is followed by a debate entitled "Government's Failure of Leadership in the Climate Crisis".

I beg to move, That this House believes that it is vital that the UK demonstrates political leadership at all levels in response to the Climate Crisis, and that this is particularly important ahead of the United Nations Climate Change summit in Copenhagen if there is to be an international agreement which will avert the worst effects of catastrophic climate change; further believes that immediate practical responses to the crisis should include a massive expansion of renewable energy and energy efficiency and a commitment for all homes in Britain to be warm homes within 10 years; acknowledges that action taken now to tackle the climate crisis will cost less than action taken in the future; notes the declared support of Labour and Conservative frontbenchers to the objective of the 10:10 campaign which calls for 10 per cent.

Many people are saying that the next five years - the lifetime of the next Parliament - is the period in which we will either avert the Climate Crisis or not.

It is not at all incompatible with saving the planet and averting the Climate Crisis to ensure that we intelligently and responsibly exploit the natural resources that we have been given, and they are two of the most important.

The more we see the effects of climatic conditions being disruptive, whether it is floods in the United Kingdom or desertification in Africa, or the figures that I put to the Secretary of State earlier about the number of likely refugees displaced - we are talking in millions - and the conflicts that could come from that, as this is as much about conflict prevention as about Climate Crisis being averted, the more we see that these are things we should be concerned about.

They have often made it clear that they are committed to a Copenhagen deal that averts Climate Crisis, and that they want to do the right thing for a sustainable future, but when the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs winds up the debate, he must acknowledge that they have to lead by action, not words.

Equally, however, open trade is an important tool for securing the change that we need in order to tackle the Climate Crisis by technology transfer through commercial solutions and in the way in which we trade.

Without that absolute parameter, the industry will not know where it stands, and Ministers know that we are likely to have new coal-fired, dirty coal power stations that will contribute to worsening the Climate Crisis rather than help to solve it.

Threats caused by the Climate Crisis are likely to increase rather than reduce the risk of conflict.

Further, does he agree that in the election between now and then the British public would be very foolish to vote for any candidates who do not accept the overwhelming nature of the science showing that we have the Worst Climate Crisis that anybody has ever known?

At the same time, the urgency of tackling the Climate Crisis has become ever more evident, and yet the capacity of the international community to take the necessary action still remains elusive.

We face a Climate Crisis over the next 40 years.

Will he ensure that the revenue is earmarked to tackle sustainable development and the growing Climate Crisis?

I am putting on the record the fact that we face a Climate Crisis of extraordinary urgency, and if we are to have any hope of tackling it, we need to be working on the basis of the right data.

The time that we have in this Parliament - the next three or four years - will be critical as to whether we invest properly in getting off the collision course that we are on with the Climate Crisis.

In that context, can he explain why, given the urgency of the Climate Crisis that faces us, the Queen's Speech contains nothing to deal with it except provision for a green investment bank that will still not be able to borrow, and a Bill that is likely to lock us into high-cost, high-carbon gas production?

In that context, can he explain why, given the urgency of the Climate Crisis that faces us, the Queen's Speech contains nothing to deal with it except provision for a Green investment bank that will still not be able to borrow, and a Bill that is likely to lock us into high-cost, high-carbon gas production?

I want to place climate strongly in the framework of security issues and to say how sorry I am that ambitious measures to address the Climate Crisis were conspicuous in their absence from the announcements about the forthcoming legislative programme.

The forthcoming legislative programme shows that the Government are failing in their first duty - to protect citizens - precisely by failing to address the causes of the worsening Climate Crisis.

Ministers have had many opportunities to improve the legislation for the sake of our economy and those struggling with high energy bills, in order to create many thousands more jobs and, crucially, to demonstrate that we politicians are up to the job of tackling the Climate Crisis with the urgency and ambition required.

I believe passionately that education is the greatest liberation opportunity for children and that we have a Climate Crisis which we need to attack with the same ferocity as we would attack any other threat to the people of our planet.

Finally, we need to maintain human rights at the heart of our work to tackle the Climate Crisis.