37959
2008-09
880
Royal Bank Of Scotland And Climate Change
Martin Horwood
2009-02-25
That this House notes that one of the most significant outcomes of the recent financial crisis has been the Government's acquisition of a majority stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS); further notes that RBS has been identified by campaign groups People and Planet and Platform as the UK bank that is the most heavily involved in financing the expansion of fossil fuel projects around the world, and that the carbon dioxide emissions embedded in RBS's project finance in 2006 were calculated to be greater than the carbon dioxide emissions of Scotland itself; believes that the fact that banks play such a large role in providing finance to projects that are exacerbating climate change has been wholly unaddressed in Government policy; further believes that there is an urgent need for the Government's new banking regulations to include environmental concerns as well as financial concerns; calls on the Government to use its majority share in RBS to prioritise climate change as a principal concern in RBS's lending decisions; further calls on the Government to require RBS to calculate, publish and cap embedded emissions resulting from its lending to fossil fuel projects, and to set annual targets for reducing these emissions; and further calls on the Government to promote RBS investments in renewable energy, new green jobs and the infrastructure needed to decarbonise the economy.
Climate change
Financial institutions
Martin Horwood
2009-02-25
Proposed
Cheltenham
Liberal Democrat
Mark Durkan
2009-02-25
Seconded
Foyle
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Ann Cryer
2009-02-26
Seconded
Keighley
Labour
David Drew
2009-02-26
Seconded
Stroud
Labour
Lynne Jones
2009-02-26
Seconded
Birmingham, Selly Oak
Labour
John McDonnell
2009-02-27
Seconded
Hayes and Harlington
Labour
Martin Caton
2009-03-03
Signed
Gower
Labour
Mike Hancock
2009-03-03
Signed
Portsmouth South
Liberal Democrat
Rudi Vis
2009-03-03
Signed
Finchley and Golders Green
Labour
John Leech
2009-03-03
Signed
Manchester, Withington
Liberal Democrat
Alan Simpson
2009-03-04
Signed
Nottingham South
Labour
Andrew Stunell
2009-03-04
Signed
Hazel Grove
Liberal Democrat
Simon Hughes
2009-03-05
Signed
North Southwark and Bermondsey
Liberal Democrat
Don Foster
2009-03-05
Signed
Bath
Liberal Democrat
Roger Williams
2009-03-05
Signed
Brecon and Radnorshire
Liberal Democrat
Danny Alexander
2009-03-05
Signed
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Liberal Democrat
Paul Rowen
2009-03-05
Signed
Rochdale
Liberal Democrat
Paul Keetch
2009-03-06
Signed
Hereford
Liberal Democrat
Sarah Teather
2009-03-06
Signed
Brent East
Liberal Democrat
David Howarth
2009-03-06
Signed
Cambridge
Liberal Democrat
Greg Mulholland
2009-03-06
Signed
Leeds North West
Liberal Democrat
Mark Williams
2009-03-09
Signed
Ceredigion
Liberal Democrat
Evan Harris
2009-03-10
Signed
Oxford West and Abingdon
Liberal Democrat
Annette Brooke
2009-03-10
Signed
Mid Dorset and North Poole
Liberal Democrat
Janet Dean
2009-03-10
Signed
Burton
Labour
Susan Kramer
2009-03-10
Signed
Richmond Park
Liberal Democrat
Dan Rogerson
2009-03-10
Signed
North Cornwall
Liberal Democrat
Adam Price
2009-03-13
Signed
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Plaid Cymru
Phil Willis
2009-03-16
Signed
Harrogate and Knaresborough
Liberal Democrat
Paul Burstow
2009-03-19
Signed
Sutton and Cheam
Liberal Democrat
Neil Gerrard
2009-03-19
Signed
Walthamstow
Labour
Alan Reid
2009-03-20
Signed
Argyll and Bute
Liberal Democrat
Lady Hermon
2009-03-23
Signed
North Down
UUP
Michael Connarty
2009-03-24
Signed
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Labour
Mark Lazarowicz
2009-03-25
Signed
Edinburgh North and Leith
Labour
Nick Harvey
2009-03-26
Signed
North Devon
Liberal Democrat
Sandra Gidley
2009-03-26
Signed
Romsey
Liberal Democrat
John Thurso
2009-03-26
Signed
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Liberal Democrat
Charles Kennedy
2009-03-27
Signed
Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Liberal Democrat
Jennifer Willott
2009-03-30
Signed
Cardiff Central
Liberal Democrat
Mark Oaten
2009-04-20
Signed
Winchester
Liberal Democrat
Jo Swinson
2009-04-22
Signed
East Dunbartonshire
Liberal Democrat
Christopher Huhne
2009-04-28
Signed
Eastleigh
Liberal Democrat
Hywel Francis
2009-04-28
Signed
Aberavon
Labour
Nigel Griffiths
2009-04-29
Signed
Edinburgh South
Labour
Lembit
2009-05-05
Signed
Montgomeryshire
Liberal Democrat
Kim Howells
2009-05-07
Signed
Pontypridd
Labour
Harry Cohen
2009-05-12
Signed
Leyton and Wanstead
Labour
Diane Abbott
2009-05-12
Signed
Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Labour
Joan Walley
2009-05-12
Signed
Stoke-on-Trent North
Labour
Doug Naysmith
2009-05-13
Signed
Bristol North West
Labour
Jim Cousins
2009-05-13
Signed
Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Labour
Clare Short
2009-05-14
Signed
Birmingham, Ladywood
Independent Labour
John Hemming
2009-05-14
Signed
Birmingham, Yardley
Liberal Democrat
David Heath
2009-05-15
Signed
Somerton & Frome
Liberal Democrat
George Galloway
2009-05-15
Signed
Bethnal Green and Bow
Respect
Gwyn Prosser
2009-05-18
Signed
Dover
Labour
Frank Cook
2009-05-19
Signed
Stockton North
Labour
Alan Beith
2009-05-20
Signed
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Liberal Democrat
Richard Younger-Ross
2009-05-20
Signed
Teignbridge
Liberal Democrat
Dai Davies
2009-05-21
Signed
Blaenau Gwent
Independent
Julie Morgan
2009-06-01
Signed
Cardiff North
Labour
Robert Marshall-Andrews
2009-06-01
Signed
Medway
Labour
Roger Godsiff
2009-06-01
Signed
Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath
Labour
John Austin
2009-06-01
Signed
Erith and Thamesmead
Labour
Desmond Turner
2009-06-01
Signed
Brighton, Kemptown
Labour
Mike Wood
2009-06-01
Signed
Batley and Spen
Labour
Katy Clark
2009-06-01
Signed
North Ayrshire and Arran
Labour
Colin Challen
2009-06-03
Signed
Morley and Rothwell
Labour
Jim McGovern
2009-06-04
Signed
Dundee West
Labour
Tom Brake
2009-06-09
Signed
Carshalton and Wallington
Liberal Democrat
Gerald Kaufman
2009-06-15
Signed
Manchester, Gorton
Labour
Andrew Pelling
2009-06-15
Signed
Croydon Central
Independent
Anne Main
2009-06-18
Signed
St Albans
Conservative
Tim Farron
2009-06-25
Signed
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Liberal Democrat
Hugh Bayley
2009-06-26
Signed
City of York
Labour
Adrian Sanders
2009-06-30
Signed
Torbay
Liberal Democrat
Paul Holmes
2009-06-30
Signed
Chesterfield
Liberal Democrat
Norman Baker
2009-06-30
Signed
Lewes
Liberal Democrat
Alistair Carmichael
2009-07-01
Signed
Orkney and Shetland
Liberal Democrat
Steve Webb
2009-07-01
Signed
Northavon
Liberal Democrat
John Pugh
2009-07-02
Signed
Southport
Liberal Democrat
Willie Rennie
2009-07-02
Signed
Dunfermline and West Fife
Liberal Democrat
Mark Fisher
2009-07-07
Signed
Stoke-on-Trent Central
Labour
Norman Lamb
2009-07-09
Signed
North Norfolk
Liberal Democrat
Marsha Singh
2009-07-13
Signed
Bradford West
Labour
Sandra Osborne
2009-07-13
Signed
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Labour
Frank Field
2009-07-14
Signed
Birkenhead
Labour
Stephen Hepburn
2009-07-15
Signed
Jarrow
Labour
Brian Iddon
2009-10-12
Signed
Bolton South East
Labour
Virendra Sharma
2009-10-12
Signed
Ealing, Southall
Labour
Bob Russell
2009-10-13
Signed
Colchester
Liberal Democrat
Kelvin Hopkins
2009-10-13
Signed
Luton North
Labour
Bob Laxton
2009-10-13
Signed
Derby North
Labour
Gavin Strang
2009-10-13
Signed
Edinburgh East
Labour
Lynne Featherstone
2009-10-13
Signed
Hornsey and Wood Green
Liberal Democrat
Andy Slaughter
2009-10-13
Signed
Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush
Labour
Paul Truswell
2009-10-14
Signed
Pudsey
Labour
Phyllis Starkey
2009-10-20
Signed
Milton Keynes South West
Labour
Dai Havard
2009-10-20
Signed
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Labour
David Crausby
2009-10-20
Signed
Bolton North East
Labour
Jim Dowd
2009-10-21
Signed
Lewisham West
Labour
Stephen Williams
2009-10-21
Signed
Bristol West
Liberal Democrat
Mike Gapes
2009-11-03
Signed
Ilford South
Labour
Kitty Ussher
2009-11-04
Signed
Burnley
Labour
Jeremy Browne
2009-11-05
Signed
Taunton
Liberal Democrat
David Lepper
2009-11-11
Signed
Brighton, Pavilion
Labour
Ian Gibson
Withdrawn