Part of Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill - Report – in the House of Lords at 7:15 pm on 14 December 2021.
Lord Clement-Jones
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Digital)
7:15,
14 December 2021
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, and my noble friend have made a compelling case for supporting this Amendment, based on the climate and ecological emergency that we face. Tackling those challenges will require massive innovation and ingenuity and the development of practical applications from that. If ARIA has the bold, independent, innovative culture that the Minister emphasised throughout Committee, then it must be the ideal vehicle for this research, and we should spell it out. We should make ARIA an essential component of the net-zero strategy.
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