Results 1-20 of 26 for climate change speaker:Hugh Bayley

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: USA (4 Jun 2009)

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he last met his US counterpart to discuss climate change.

Local Press (20 Jan 2009)

Hugh Bayley: ...4. My programmes were pretty political. In 1983, shortly after the Live Aid concert, one programme made the case that famine in east Africa was not just bad luck or an act of God, but the result of climate change brought about by human behaviour. That is now a commonplace, but more than 20 years ago it was seen as a dangerous, left-wing idea. I made a programme about miners' wives at...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Lighting: Housing (26 Nov 2008)

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many low energy light bulbs have been distributed without charge to pensioners in York.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Insulation: Grants (11 Nov 2008)

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many pensioner households in York have received grants or other assistance to improve their home insulation in each year since 1996-97; and how much public money was spent on this in each such year.

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Climate Change (5 Nov 2008) has video

Hugh Bayley: ...funds grant aid to the least developed countries, we are in a particularly strong position to influence bank policy. What contribution do the Government want the World Bank to make to adaptation to climate change in the poorest countries of the world?

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Food and Agriculture Organisation (11 Jun 2008) has video

Hugh Bayley: Climate change is forcing up agricultural and food prices throughout the world. The Secretary of State is right to say that increasing agricultural productivity, particularly in Africa, is important. What is his Department doing to progress that?

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

Hugh Bayley: ...186; C over the oceans and much more than 2º C in the centre of continents, because the land heats up faster. Should the target be 60 cent. or 80 per cent.? I am glad the Government have charged the Committee on Climate Change with examining the question. I should like to see the Government set a figure much closer to 80 per cent. than to 60 per cent., but if we set a tougher target,...

[Mr. Eric Martlew in the Chair] — Eco-towns (3 Jun 2008)

Hugh Bayley: ...to meet housing needs in all our constituencies over the coming decades. Secondly, I want to speak about the environmental imperative to build in different ways. In his report on the economics of climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern told us that the world needed to halve its current CO2 emissions by 2050. We know that countries such as China and India are rapidly increasing their CO2...

Royal Assent: The United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (20 Mar 2008)

Hugh Bayley: .... Before last years CHOGM in Kampala in November, the UK set out a number of objectives for the conference to win support from other Commonwealth countries for the UK's and the EU's position on climate change, to win support for the Prime Minister's call for action that he made in July 2007 for implementation of the millennium development goals, and for there to be pressure on President...

Royal Assent: The United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (20 Mar 2008)

Hugh Bayley: The climate change conference took place just before the UN Bali conference on climate change at which its findings were presented, but I invite the hon. Gentleman to come with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to talk to the CPA UK branch about climate change and other issues that it may wish to raise and with which it thinks we should be involved. We would be willing and happy to meet....

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (13 Mar 2008) has video

Hugh Bayley: The Committee on Climate Change had its first meeting this week. It has been asked to examine whether the Climate Change Bill should require an 80 per cent., rather than a 60 per cent., reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. I would not like the Bill to become law with the 60 per cent. figure in it, so how quickly will the committee's recommendations be made?

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 7): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 8) — [8th Allotted Day] (27 Feb 2008)

Hugh Bayley: The question is whether the Conservative party speaks with one voice. The right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) said how important it was for the EU to have a competence in climate change. Amendment No. 121 to the European Union (Amendment) Bill, tabled by some very senior Conservatives—including a former party leader, the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford...

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 7): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 8) — [8th Allotted Day] (27 Feb 2008)

Hugh Bayley: ...a point of order by interrupting the speech of the hon. Member for East Surrey (Mr. Ainsworth). You admonished me for seeking to show the hon. Gentleman the two pages of the treaty which deal with climate change. Although it is true that the treaty adds the six words "and in particular combating climate"—

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 7): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 8) — [8th Allotted Day] (27 Feb 2008)

Hugh Bayley: Does my right hon. Friend agree that people throughout the world, not just those who live in the EU, look to the EU to provide a lead on climate change? In November, the UK branch Commonwealth Parliamentary Association held a conference here in London that was attended by 85 parliamentarians from Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries. The conference called for a new international...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Climate Change (8 Jan 2008)

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the contribution of the EU to securing international agreement at Bali on action to tackle climate change.

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] — Management and Services (House of Commons) (18 Oct 2007)

Hugh Bayley: ...of what they had to say. I was pleased to hear what the hon. Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey) said about the environmental attention to detail that the Commission now has. That is a welcome change indeed. I chair the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK branch, and I have come to make some arguments on its behalf. The CPA UK branch is a parliamentary body, but it is funded by...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Departmental Travel (7 Mar 2007)

Hugh Bayley: ...and other new technology to avoid the need for domestic and international travel for face-to-face meetings? What impact does that have on reducing the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change?

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — World Trade (Doha Development Agenda) (12 Oct 2006)

Hugh Bayley: ...of their labour internationally in places in which they were hitherto unable to do so, we must use the time between now and whenever a global deal is made to put that principle into practice by changing the policies of the European Union. We cannot unilaterally change the trade policies of the United States or Japan. I wish that we could, but we cannot. That is the problem with these...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (14 Jun 2006)

Hugh Bayley: Britain led the world on climate change at the G8 summit last year. Now that the Government have pledged to make Government offices and agencies carbon neutral by 2012 by offsetting emissions through carbon-absorbing and carbon-reducing measures, will my right hon. Friend ensure that local government follows the Government's lead and does the same?

European Affairs (14 Dec 2005)

Hugh Bayley: ...our share of global GDP will fall by something like two thirds. Therefore, if we want to survive as a major player in world markets and retain a strategic role in global affairs—in respect of climate change, peace and security and combating terrorism, for instance—we need to set in train urgent and radical reform of our national economies. We need to invest more, especially in...