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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 December 2024

Debate

Great British Energy Bill

Contribution

I turn to the third leg of the argument, namely that renewable targets are currently unachievable without slavery. On the face of it, the arguments seem to stack up worryingly. China controls the supply chain and state-imposed forced labour is present throughout it. How, then, will we meet our 2030 targets without slavery? The conundrum is that we appear to need Chinese solar to meet our climate targets, but Chinese solar is badly tainted, as I have described, with modern slavery.

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