Margaret Beckett
Margaret Beckett
Dame Margaret Mary Beckett, DBEis a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliamentfor Derby South since 1983. She was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith 1992 to 1994, and briefly served as Leader of the Labour Party after Smith died suddenly. She later served in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of roles, becoming Britain's first female Foreign Secretary in 2006...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 January 1943
children impact worry
We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.
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It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history
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Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.
I don't join or leave things lightly.
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My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.
choices
You have to make your choice and live with your choice.
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One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.
future vision behaviour
Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives
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Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.
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The focus of our agenda for this meeting is on energy, and on how we can make better use of technology to make the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of climate change,' (but) you're starting to see a pattern of extreme weather events.