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Sir David admits that it is a "paradox" that he himself flies to countries when making his programmes about the impact of the climate on nature.
He says a long-term solution to the issue is for airplanes to be powered by electricity.
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Conservative Mark Pawsey asks Sir David whether people are ready to make sacrifices for the sake of the planet, for example by reducing the number of flights they take.
Sir David replies that those in power can alter flight use by making air travel more expensive.
Mark Pawsey follows up by asking Sir David whether he thinks this should be pursued as a way of reducing carbon emissions.
He replies that "one way" to reduce flight use would be to include the cost to the environment of air travel "in real terms" in the price of the tickets.
"If you cost that, you would see that the tickets are extraordinarily cheap," he adds.
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Image source, HoCThe SNP's Drew Hendry asks whether the UK is still a global leader when it comes to tackling climate change.
Sir David replies that he thinks the UK's record "has been pretty good”, even though countries such as the UK “stared the problem" during the Industrial Revolution.
Drew Hendry asks whether he think's the government's current 2050 net-zero carbon target means the UK doing its "fair share" to tackle global warming.
Sir David replies that he thinks it does, but he hopes the UK and other countries don't "backslide" on the commitments they have made.
He says the ambition is a "tough target" and was "not any easy statement to have made".
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Antoinette Sandbach asks about the effect that the 2050 "net zero" carbon emissions will have on the natural world.
Sir David replies that it will provide a "measurable" target for policy.
Ms Sandbach asks Sir David how he would explain the benefits that conservation can bring to constituents.
Sir David replies that in his experience people "aren't so parochial" as to say they don't care about the plight of species outside the UK.
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Labour's Vernon Coaker asks whether politicians have been "slow to react" to changing public perceptions about climate change.
Sir David replies that it's slow "in an ideal world" but adds that the UK has been "among the forerunners" in drawing attention to the problems of climate change.
Conservative Antoinette Sandbach asks to what extent threats to animal species are down to climate change, or other factors such as an increasing population.
Sir David replies that overpopulation has certainly been a "huge problem" when it comes to threats to the natural world.
Sir David recently appeared at the Glastonbury music festival, introducing his new BBC Earth series.
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Tory MP Sir Patrick McLoughlin asks about the government's plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions to almost zero by 2050.
He asks Sir David whether it is realistic to accelerate the timescale for this ambition to 2025, as some campaigners have demanded.
Sir David says governments "cannot be radical enough" in this area, but the question is how fact they can take voters with them.
He adds though that younger voters appear to be "making their voices clear" in favour of further action.
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Image source, HoCLabour’s Peter Kyle asks Sir David about his role as a climate campaigner, saying he has become "more assertive" in this role over the years.
Sir David replies that he is "not by nature a propagandist", but naturalists have "no alternative" but to speak about the effect of the climate on the planet.
When he first started making nature programmes 50 years ago, he says, he could not imagine what we know now about the nature of human activity on the climate.
He says he changed approach not when public opinion on the matter changed, but when the facts became "incontrovertible".
The Business Committee is one of six parliamentary committees who have announced plans for a citizens' assembly to discuss how the UK should tackle climate change.
The assembly is likely to be set up in the autumn and will meet over several weekends before producing a report.
Image source, EPAThe Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee will be taking evidence from veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
He’ll be talking to MPs about the government’s clean growth strategy and international climate change targets.
The committee is one of six that have announced plans for a citizens' assembly in the autumn to discuss how the UK should tackle climate change.
It comes after the government committed last month to cut greenhouse gas emissions to almost zero by 2050.
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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of events today in the House of Commons.
Business will begin at 11.30BST in the chamber, with questions to justice ministers, followed by any urgent questions or ministerial statements if they are announced.
This afternoon MPs will debate legislation to keep government in Northern Ireland functioning in the continued absence of the devolved executive.
Amendments have been proposed on legalising same-sex marriage, widening access to abortion and trying to stop a future PM suspending Parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit.
We’ll find out later today which of these – if any – is selected for debate by Speaker John Bercow.
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Remember, a round up to the day's events is on Today in Parliament on Radio 4 at 23:30 BST.
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Image source, HoCOpening the debate, Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley says there are "signs of an emerging consensus" in three of the five areas under discussion by the parties in talks about restoring power-sharing.
In the other two areas - on the Irish language and sustainability of the institutions - there have been "some agreement" but no overall consensus.
The lack of overall agreement is a "huge disappointment".
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MPs are now debating the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill.
This is legislation required to keep government in Northern Ireland functioning n the continued absence of the devolved executive, which has not sat since March 2017.
Labour's Conor McGinn has an amendment to legalise gay marriage in Northern Ireland within three months if the devolved government remains stalled.
Labour MP Stella Creasy is leading another cross-party group pushing a parallel amendment to ensure equal abortion access for women in Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK.
Those amendments, if selected, will be debated tomorrow.
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The statement on changes to technical qualifications ends, and Mel Stride makes a business statement to update MPs on the agenda for this week.
It brings confirmation that the remaining stages of the Northern Ireland bill will take place tomorrow - MPs are debating the bill at second reading this afternoon.
Image source, UK ParliamentTory MP James Heappey tells the story of a family in his constituency
Tory Party MP James Heappey joins the debate in Westminster Hall to tell the story of a family in his constituency.
Tom and Jackie Luxon were involved in car crash in Somerset with their two year old daughter, who sustained life changing injuries.
However, Jackie was also carrying another daughter - Grace - who was at 26 weeks.
Her baby was stillborn as a consequence of the crash, and the man responsible received three years and seven months.
Mr Heappey says: "If Grace had taken just one breath when she made it to hospital with her mother... then this debate would have applied.
"We would have been talking about whether this man was liable for a life sentence or whether, as the current situation is, something less satisfactory.
"But in her case, she didn't take a breath and three years and seven months was all that could be served on that man for killing her."
He calls of the government minister to look at the merits of their case and increasing sentences for unborn children killed as a result of dangerous driving.
"It should be the norm to give life sentences for dangerous driving, because cars can be a weapon in the hands of the wrong people," he says.
"But in the case of the Luxons, their child was denied to them at 26 weeks gestation and the punishment for the person responsible was just three years and seven months.
"I urge the minister to look beyond what we do for the punishment received by those who kill those who are living, and also look at the punishment of those who are stillborn as a consequence."
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Image source, HoCEducation Minister Nadhim Zahawi is now making a statement on plans for a new category of higher technical qualifications.
The Department of Education has launched a consultation on the proposals today.
It follows a review of qualifications at levels 4-5, which sit between A-levels and T-levels, and full bachelor degrees.
Mr Zahawi says the government wants to make technical subjects a "prestigious choice", and encourage students to study them post-18.
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Shadow education minister Gordon Marsden says Labour welcomes the review, adding the party has long called for technical subjects to be put on an "equal footing".
However, he says details of the government's plans are "still lacking", and asks what status the new qualifications will have.
He says the changes will require a "big infusion of money" beyond what the government has committed for further education.