Claim: The Conservatives' recent budget made no mention of climate change.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The opposition Conservative Party supported the concept of a bill, and proposed their own variation ahead of the Government's.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: However, there has been much criticism and protest about the 2010 government's actions on the NHS, focussing on budget cuts and privatisation of services.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: "Bill C-30: Canada's Clean Air and Climate Change Act".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: In 2006, Canada's Clean Air and Climate Change Act was introduced to address air pollution as well as greenhouse gas emissions; it never became law.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Cuts were also made to many essential programs, some so deep that they had to shut down entirely, including the monitoring of smoke stack emissions, food inspections, oil spills, water quality, and climate change.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: "Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Budget is set by the Committee on Climate Change, which is independent of the Government.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was a British government department created on 3 October 2008, by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take over some of the functions related to energy of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and those relating to climate change of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, in a 19 June 2017 interview with CNBC, acknowledged the existence of climate change and impact from humans, but said that he did not agree with the idea that carbon dioxide was the primary driver of global warming pointing instead to "the ocean waters and this environment that we live in".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Respect - The Unity Coalition were also in favour of a 90% cut in carbon emissions by 2050, but did not express a view on the bill.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: An emissions budget, carbon budget, emissions quota, or allowable emissions, is an upper limit of total carbon dioxide () emissions associated with remaining below a specific global average temperature.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In 2019, 2 weeks before the elections to the European Parlament, the World Wide Fund for Nature stated that the European Union is unsustainable in his current mode of life and economy and asked him to fix it by "Shift to sustainable consumption and food systems, make Europe climate-neutral by 2040, restore our Nature, protect the Ocean, invest in a sustainable future" At a March 2009 meeting of the Copenhagen Climate Council, 2,500 climate experts from 80 countries issued a keynote statement that there is now "no excuse" for failing to act on global warming and that without strong carbon reduction "abrupt or irreversible" shifts in climate may occur that "will be very difficult for contemporary societies to cope with".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Climate Change Act 2008 (c 27) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.