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Commons Chamber
G20 and COP26 World Leaders Summit - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) In the meantime, global warming is already contributing to droughts, brushfires and hurricanes, summoning - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
G20 and COP 26 World Leaders Summit - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) humanity from catastrophic climate change, and in the meantime global warming is already contributing to droughts - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Income Tax (Charge) - Thu 28 Oct 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Famine and droughts, conflicts and floods are forcing 80 million people to leave their homes and land - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
COP26: Limiting Global Temperature Rises - Thu 21 Oct 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Nicholas Brown (IND - Newcastle upon Tyne East) as a natural climate moderator, mediating temperature, driving the weather and determining rainfall, droughts - Speech Link
2: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) There will be more hurricanes, more rising sea levels, more frequent flooding and more droughts if we - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Net-zero Carbon Emissions: Behaviour Change - Thu 16 Sep 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) of the young people at school today will die from the consequences of climate change: flash floods, droughts - Speech Link

Grand Committee
Sub-Saharan Africa (Report from the International Relations and Defence Committee) - Wed 08 Sep 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) on sub-Saharan Africa, which is vulnerable to the increased frequency and severity of floods and of droughts - Speech Link

Westminster Hall
Global Britain: Human Rights and Climate Change - Tue 07 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Nations are suffering droughts or floods, and just a few weeks ago Texas experienced dire shifts in their - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Mon 06 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) It is just as important and life threatening as any weather patterns, droughts or floods—and they are - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (CB - Life peer) just those historic and current farming practices but the fact that our soils now have to put up with droughts - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Official Development Assistance and the British Council - Wed 30 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) To the west, across the Sahel, droughts in the summer and floods in the winter have already caused conflict - Speech Link
2: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) Taking the water cuts, for example, there is the context of increasing droughts. - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) Storms, floods and droughts will affect agricultural productivity, damage economies and lead to mass - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 28 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) have been growing our pineapples and bananas that will not be able to in the future, when they have droughts - Speech Link