Greg Barker MP

Shadow Minister for Climate Change

In October 2008 Greg Barker was promoted to Shadow Climate Change Minister in the new Shadow Department of Energy and Climate Change. Greg lead the passage of the Climate Change Bill through the House of Commons in 2008 and was a key author of the Conservative Party’s ‘Low Carbon Economy’ green paper, launched in January 2009.

Gregory was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle in his native Sussex in June 2001.

Gregory has served on the House of Commons Environmental Audit select committee between 2001 and 2005. He was appointed to the Opposition Front Bench as a Conservative whip in 2003, resigned in July 2005 to help run David Cameron's successful leadership campaign. David Cameron appointed him Shadow Minister for Climate Change & Environment in December 2005. Greg accompanied David to the Arctic in March 2006, to highlight the dangers of global warming and has since been working closely on Climate Change and wider environmental policy, his policy paper Power to the People advocating a radical increase in the use of decentralised energy, greatly informed the Conservative Party policy paper of the same name, published in November 2007.

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