On the 4th June Roger voted to support renewable energy and jobs by backing a move to clean up UK power and tackle climate change.
He voted for an amendment to the Energy Bill, currently in Parliament, that would set the Government a legal target to remove carbon emissions from the UK’s power supply almost entirely by 2030.
Roger said: “Green is working – the green economy supports almost a million jobs already and it is helping to stop dangerous climate change.
“But green companies and their supply chains will only make long-term investments in the West Midlands region if there’s a clear pathway for renewable energy in the future.
“That’s why I voted for a target to cut the carbon from our electricity by 2030 – it would help stabilise the climate and provide much needed jobs, as well as keeping bills as low as possible in the long-term.”
He concluded: “It was announced recently that the world still has record reserves of fossil fuels to exploit with ever improving technology but that in reality our 
weather systems can only support about a third of this consumption. The appearance of ever more extreme weather events and the dramatic reduction in the size of the polar ice caps is continuing testimony that we cannot go on pumping more and more carbon into the atmosphere with impunity.”

This article appeared in the June edition of Roger's newsletter 'Postcard from Parliament'