Results 1-15 of 15 for climate change speaker:Stuart Bell

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

Stuart Bell: ...resolve, and intermediate targets. In the Gracious Speech, the Government declared that they would seek effective global and European collaboration through the G20 and the European Union to sustain economic recovery and combat climate change, including at the Copenhagen summit next month. I therefore welcome the Government's commitment to the summit in the Gracious Speech. It is three...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: European Council (2 Nov 2009) has video

Stuart Bell: ...confronting global warming and reducing emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases. May I plead with him to continue his unremitting efforts to ensure that, after the Copenhagen conference on climate change, there will indeed be another protocol to follow the one from Kyoto?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Spring European Council (23 Mar 2009) has video

Stuart Bell: ...the European Union, within the group of 20 and with the United States of America at the meeting in Prague next month in relation to the first global recession, and that he should link it with climate change proposals and, not forgetting the less developed world, with the millennium development goals? Is it not a pity, or even a tragedy, that the whole House cannot support that consensus?

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Carbon Emissions (8 May 2008) has video

Stuart Bell: ...I am sure he would agree that there is a welcome conference taking place at Lambeth Palace on 13 May, when the Archbishop of Canterbury will host the first anniversary celebration of "Together", a climate change campaign that aims to make the practical things that everyone can do easier and more affordable. I welcome the hon. Gentleman's commitment to the cause.

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (21 Apr 2008) has video

Stuart Bell: Clearly, rising food and fuel prices will trouble the economy, and the Government must look at those matters and deal with them as they can. Making changes to last year's Budget this year might not be the appropriate way forward. Instead, the appropriate way forward might be that suggested by my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dunbartonshire and the Minister, which is to see how we...

Points of Order: Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2) — (2nd Allotted Day) (30 Jan 2008)

Stuart Bell: ...and energy policy for Europe approved by the Council on 8 and 9 March 2007. The principle of solidarity applies—a theme that I shall develop later. Energy policy, security of energy and climate change are all interconnected. There is already a single market in gas and electricity, and once again the single market flows from the single European Act of 1986, entered into by the noble...

Points of Order: Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2) — (2nd Allotted Day) (30 Jan 2008)

Stuart Bell: ...Europe" acknowledged in referring to the spring European Council meeting of May 2007—also referred to by the Secretary of State—the Union leaders signed up to an ambitious package of climate change and energy proposals with the objective of putting the Union on the path to becoming the world's first competitive, energy-secure and low-carbon economy. The goal of the Union must...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Intergovernmental Conference (Lisbon) (22 Oct 2007) has video

Stuart Bell: ...hon. Friend's statement that 62 per cent. of our exports now go to Europe, whereas it was 57 per cent. 10 years ago. The House should welcome his emphasis on jobs, competitiveness, prosperity, climate change, security, the single market, free trade and openness. I assure him that these will be the subjects of debate when we come to discuss the reform treaty.

Oral Answers to Questions — Public Accounts Commission: European Council (25 Jun 2007)

Stuart Bell: ..., met President Chirac and set down the basis of a common foreign and security policy. Building on his references to asylum and immigration, energy policy, enlargement and globalisation, can we add climate change and the environment? With 27 member states and proper institutional arrangements, is it possible for us now to give world leadership on those issues, which will be to the utmost...

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Investment Policy (21 May 2007)

Stuart Bell: We in the Church admire Christian Aid's energy as it campaigns on a wide range of issues—from Darfur to the effects of climate change—and the work that was done last week. As my hon. Friend is aware, the commissioners' investment policy is a matter for them. However, I have no difficulty in meeting Christian Aid in the non-too-distant future.

UK Exporters (23 Jun 1994)

Mr Stuart Bell: ...to refer him to a number of statements made by Ministers in the 1980s. The Select Committee on Overseas Trade in another place produced a famous report in 1985. It made it clear that, unless the climate is changed so that steps could be taken to enlarge the manufacturing base, combat import penetration and stimulate exports of manufactured goods, as oil revenues diminish the country will...

Orders of the Day — Shares (Disclosure of Interest) (29 Jun 1993)

Mr Stuart Bell: ...of the share-owning democracy. We want to protect the small shareholder as well as the large company, subject to the terms of the regulations. With the Companies Acts that we are amending, a climate was created which set loose an orgy of profligacy in the City—an orgy of creative accountancy and of laxness which has culminated in a series of awesome corporate failures, the likes of...

Foreign Affairs (8 May 1992)

Mr Stuart Bell: ...of returning carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 provided that others do the same. He was also right to say that he hopes to sign global conventions on biological diversity and climatic change. However, the launching of a European environmental initiative under the Prime Minister's presidency would boost the Community's fifth action programme for the environment. As...

Northern Ireland (Appropriation) (7 Jul 1987)

Mr Stuart Bell: ...he did. I should also like to congratulate him on his maiden speech on this subject. He was the Minister of State for the Armed Forces when I first came into the House. I remember having some exchanges with him then. It is interesting to think how things might have been if' the result of the election had been different and if we had been sitting on the Government Benches. I should have...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (12 Jul 1984)

Mr Stuart Bell: .... The Chancellor of the Exchequer has a belief in the market, and it is reflected in everything that he says. It is reflected in what he said when he was asked about a target for the exchange rate and said that there was no such thing under this Government, and that the market, as he perceived it, would fix the target. The target of the present situation is that what the Chancellor of...