Results 1-20 of 113 for climate change speaker:Gordon Brown

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

Gordon Brown: ...is the right strategy for the future, and I am grateful that there is all-party support for it. We will move it forward with announcements in the next few days. We are just 20 days away from the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, and I want to respond to the Leader of the Opposition on that matter as well. I hope that the whole House will support me in calling on countries round the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Gordon Brown: Scientific advice is valued by the Government in every area. On climate change, on foot and mouth, on dealing with swine flu and on nuclear matters as well as on drugs, we have very good scientists who have been advising us. From the drugs advisory committee, we accepted all but three of more than 30 recommendations. The issue was not the ability of the committee to give advice or the...

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

Gordon Brown: ...our armed forces, an immeasurable debt of gratitude. With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the European Council held in Brussels last Thursday and Friday. The Copenhagen climate change conference, for which the European Council was preparing, is now less than 40 days away. If carbon emissions are to be reduced and dangerous climate change averted, it is...

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

Gordon Brown: ..., which is increasing the number of Afghan troops but allowing them to be trained by forces from Britain and other countries. I am also grateful for what the right hon. Gentleman said about climate change. It is absolutely essential that we come together to make sure that we have a deal at Copenhagen, but European leadership and European unity in this are absolutely crucial. The right hon....

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

Gordon Brown: ...from European Union employment legislation, for which he would need the agreement of every one of the 26 other countries in the European Union. When the challenge is actually to secure growth, a climate change agreement and greater security from the European Union, is it going to be the best use of British influence to fight yesterday's battles the minute that the European Union has moved...

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

Gordon Brown: ...for a European job than what we have heard this afternoon. I could see the sense of opportunity in the eyes of the right hon. Gentleman's colleagues as they thought about his future prospects. On climate change, we have done more than any continent in the world to put forward proposals to sort what is a major problem that has to be addressed—namely, the financing gap. If developing...

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

Gordon Brown: ...hon. Gentleman comes from; he is against the European Union altogether. I have to tell him that at the formal sessions, which lasted many hours, we discussed jobs, we discussed growth, we discussed climate change and we discussed foreign policy issues. What the right hon. Gentleman suggests was being discussed in the corridors was not discussed in the Council. We discussed the issues that...

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

Gordon Brown: ...the existing level of support for environmental projects in the overseas development aid budget was about 10 per cent., and that we would not go beyond that. The money that we are putting towards climate change is therefore additional. I hope that all parties will feel able to agree to that, because otherwise poor countries will find that what they are doing for development has been cut so...

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

Gordon Brown: ...coming week I shall be meeting Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and then Mr. Rasmussen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, so that we can move forward our negotiations for a climate change deal in Copenhagen. Britain is determined to do everything that we can to make a deal in Copenhagen possible, and it was our original proposal on finance that has commended itself to...

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

Gordon Brown: I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Joan Ruddock), is sitting near me and she will talk to him about this very matter in a few minutes.

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

Gordon Brown: My hon. Friend puts her case with great force. I am told that livestock is on the climate change agenda. We will have to make progress in a large number of areas. It was mentioned earlier that we have to make progress in the maritime and aviation areas, and we must also make progress in deforestation—or, rather, reforestation. All these issues are part of the climate change agreement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Oct 2009) has video

Gordon Brown: We have met the Kyoto targets. We have got the first climate change Act of any country in the world. We have committed ourselves to very radical cuts in emissions not only in the long term, but in the short term. We are fighting hardest to get an agreement in Copenhagen. I have said that I will go to Copenhagen; I want there to be an agreement in Copenhagen. It is based first on us agreeing a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Oct 2009) has video

Gordon Brown: I will meet delegations to look at this issue of climate change, but I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that what we need is progress from both China and America, so that we can have a climate change deal. The principles that will underlie the deal must include intermediate targets that are agreed by countries around the world. I hope that as part of the decisions that were made by his group...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Oct 2009)

Gordon Brown: ...should not be used for that. They are against nuclear power, which is one of the keys to our having lower carbon in this country. The Conservatives should think again. If they want a consensus on climate change, they will have to change their policy.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Oct 2009) has video

Gordon Brown: Aviation emissions will come within a total of emissions that have to be met. We have said that if we can get a climate change agreement and Europe is able to sign up to it, we will go to 30 per cent. emissions instead of 20 per cent. emissions. So we are prepared to go further on the level of emissions that we will agree to, if we can get a global agreement. Far from not being ready to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Afghanistan and Pakistan (14 Oct 2009) has video

Gordon Brown: ...to be in a position to hand control of Afghanistan, area by area, back to the Afghan people. That seems to me to be the most sensible policy. As far as vehicles are concerned, there has been a sea change in the way we have brought in Mastiffs and Ridgbacks. I agree with the right hon. Gentleman that there is an issue about small vehicles, and we are looking at that at the moment. I suspect...

Written Ministerial Statements — Prime Minister: Special Advisers (16 Jul 2009)

Gordon Brown: ...Parker Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Philip French Lenny Shallcross Secretary of State for Defence Alaina Macdonald Andrew Bagnall Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Polly Billington Tom Restrick Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Wesley Ball Beatrice Stern Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Gordon Brown: .... We owe them, and all those who have been killed or wounded in conflict, a huge debt of gratitude. I want to make a statement about the conclusions of the G8 meeting, the major economies forum on climate change, and our outreach meetings with African leaders, and to thank Prime Minister Berlusconi for his organisation of the G8 and related summits, but first I will focus on one of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Gordon Brown: .... That is why I believe that there is hope that the new trade negotiations that will start will have greater success. Trade Ministers have been asked to meet before the Pittsburgh summit in 2010. On climate change, the right hon. Gentleman knows that our policy is not only long-term targets and that there must be help for developing countries; interim targets must be agreed as well. That...