Results 1-20 of 141 for climate change speaker:Peter Ainsworth

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change (11 Nov 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the potential of use of biochar to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and if he will make a statement.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Ainsworth: ...to congratulate the Archbishop of Canterbury on his leadership in bringing together representatives of all the main faiths in the United Kingdom to produce a document that calls for tackling climate change as a moral imperative?

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Ainsworth: It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson), who is absolutely right to draw attention to the way in which climate change threatens soonest and most severely some of the poorest people in the world. This has so far been an extremely interesting debate. Incidentally, I am very happy to tell the House that earlier today, the Green Energy...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Ainsworth: ...the future of everything else that lives on this planet at risk. I drew attention to the plight of wild plants in our country to make a broader point on what has affected the global negotiations on climate change. I must say that I looked with a degree of despair at the consequences and outcome of the tortuous negotiations that took place within the European Union last week, and at the...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (3 Jul 2009) has video

Peter Ainsworth: ..., in other parts of the country there has been torrential rain and flooding. Is that not entirely consistent with what the scientists have been telling us for a long time about the likely effects of climate change?

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (3 Jul 2009) has video

Peter Ainsworth: The Minister makes an extremely important point. Whatever anyone's views about climate change, does he not agree that we should have been promoting resource efficiency and energy efficiency anyway, and that in the developed west we have scandalously neglected those things for far too long? Dealing with those issues presents an enormous opportunity for good in the future.

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (3 Jul 2009) has video

Peter Ainsworth: I was coming to exactly that point. There has been a good working relationship, demonstrating that when it comes to important matters relating to climate change and carbon reduction we need to work together, and proving that we can work together. I am very grateful to successive Ministers. I might wish that there had not been so many of them, but the hon. Gentleman is of course a beneficiary...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (3 Jul 2009) has video

Peter Ainsworth: ...morning pirates in the House, and it is good to have him onside on this occasion. Let me extend my gratitude beyond the ministerial team to the civil servants in both the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Department for Communities and Local Government, who have worked together to help the Bill to make progress and, in some cases, to make sense. I am also grateful to those...

Public Bill Committee: Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill: Clause 5 (24 Jun 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: Again, it seems to me that new clause 2 does exactly the same job that I set out to do, only it does it rather more elegantly. The Climate Change and  Sustainable Energy Act 2006 enabled permitted development rights to apply to some microgeneration installations, such as solar installations. It did not extend to air source heat pumps or to microwind technology. As was discussed on Second...

Public Bill Committee: Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill: Clause 2 (24 Jun 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: ...right level is, but that should enable local communities and community-based organisations to take up initiatives in green energy. We want communities to become involved in solving the problems of climate change in all sorts of ways. Amendment 2 supports that agenda. As the Minister rightly said, amendment 3 is purely a technicality. Only the Secretary of State can perform functions under...

Public Bill Committee: Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill: Clause 1 (24 Jun 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: ...particularly grateful—I do not know whether it is appropriate to say so, but I am going to anyway—to Rachel Crisp, the civil servant in charge of work on Bills at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, who has worked extremely hard, particularly on developing the new clauses but also in a liaison capacity. I thank her very much. I know she has been burning the midnight oil...

Public Bill Committee: Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill: Clause 1 (24 Jun 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: On my approach to the Bill, I have long been an advocate of a cross-party approach to climate change measures. Is my hon. Friend suggesting that I am taking that to a new extreme of kamikaze politics?

Business of the House: UK Climate Projections (18 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Ainsworth: ..., both direct and indirect. On the indirect front, will the Secretary of State confirm that it is becoming increasingly clear that imports of biofuel are contributing to the global problem of climate change, rather than helping to solve it? Is it not crazy that Government policies are helping to annihilate the rain forest in the name of the environment? Will the Government consider...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (8 May 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: ..., whereas clause 7(2) makes it clear that they apply only to England, so anyone who was nervous about that can relax. I should also like to thank the Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, the hon. and learned Member for North Warwickshire (Mr. O'Brien), and his colleagues—and not only those in his Department but others, too—for working hard to progress...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (8 May 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: The Bill includes those technologies by reference to a previous Act—the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 introduced by the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz). They are not mentioned specifically. I hope the whole House will recognise the importance of cutting household and business fuel bills, especially at a time of recession. Clause 2 promotes...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (8 May 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: ...projects are generally promoted and not impeded by Government policy. Clause 5 relates to permitted development rights in domestic premises. Considerable progress has been made on this issue by the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006. I had the pleasure of supporting that Bill during its progress. The Act removed much of the hassle involved in installing solar thermal or...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change (23 Feb 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Climate Change (4 Feb 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Climate Change (28 Jan 2009)

Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment his Department has made of its capacity to adapt to climate change; and what plans he has to publish a climate change adaptation strategy.