Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) Economic conditions were deteriorating and droughts were increasing poverty and food insecurity. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Redesdale (LDEM - Life peer) like killing sycamore through its bark.Secondly, climate change brings about stress, especially in the droughts - Speech Link
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1: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) Droughts, climate disaster, fuel costs and the Ukraine war have all had an impact. - Speech Link
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1: Zarah Sultana (LAB - Coventry South) Big businesses are exploiting droughts and wars, post-pandemic demand and supply-side shocks from climate - Speech Link
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1: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) powerful contributions this morning, the horn of Africa has experienced one of the longest and most severe droughts - Speech Link
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1: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) NASA has said that climate change is making droughts more frequent, more severe and more pervasive. - Speech Link
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1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) increased deaths from intensifying heatwaves in all regions, millions of lives and homes destroyed in droughts - Speech Link
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1: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) We have seen droughts and famine across east Africa, floods in Pakistan and a heatwave in the UK. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) As many noble Lords know, this region is currently experiencing one of the longest and most severe droughts - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) Unpredictability of seasonal rains, causing droughts and increased floods, has resulted in local harvests - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) raising that point.Noble Lords will be all too aware that climate change increases the risk of prolonged droughts - Speech Link
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1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) hazards by investing in flood defences, rewarding our farmers for actions to reduce the risk of floods, droughts - Speech Link