Climate Change: Extreme Weather
Debate between Viscount Simon and Baroness Verma
Baroness Verma
As always, I am extremely grateful to my noble friend for his intervention. However, I am also grateful to him for allowing me to say that the UK has among the cheapest energy prices in Europe. I think my noble friends will agree that this is about measures that address the issues of today, but which also look forward to ensuring that we have a much better future.
Viscount Simon (Lab)
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Judd, mentioned food in his supplementary question. In a programme some months ago on the BBC, it was stated that this country has the largest production and consumption of baked beans in the world. Can the noble Baroness say whether this affects the calculation of global warming by the Government as a result of the smelly emission resulting therefrom?
Baroness Verma
The noble Viscount’s question is so different. He raises a very important point, which is that we need to moderate our behaviour.