Results 1-20 of 27 for climate change speaker:Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

[Robert Key in the Chair] — World Food Programme (21 May 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...recession, that created a perfect storm, as the Committee has said, and incomes fell. All those factors came together to make the situation worse. As I said in the debate on HIV/AIDS, the adverse exchange rate also reduced British aid. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, West quoted the chairman of Nestlé, who said that food prices rose by 60 per cent. last year. Again, that exacerbated...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Biofuels (20 May 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of whether the practice of attributing carbon neutrality to all biomass is compliant with Article 3.3 of the Kyoto Protocol.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Biofuels (20 May 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the emissions to air of (a) carbon dioxide and (b) nitrogen oxides which would arise if the UK were to achieve its targets for the usage of biomass as fuel as set in the Renewable Energy Strategy consultation 2008.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Biofuels (7 May 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the level of imports of biomass necessary to enable the Government's biomass targets as specified in the Renewable Energy Strategy consultation 2008 to be met.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Biofuels (7 May 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the evidential basis is for the statement in paragraph 7.5.35 of the Renewable Energy Strategy consultation 2008 that one of the principal constraints to achieving the infrastructure for biomass envisaged in that paper is public hostility to combustion plant, particularly those burning waste.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (5 Mar 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment he has made of progress towards meeting the Government's 2010 and 2016 targets for reducing fuel poverty.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (3 Mar 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what consideration he has given to using installers approved by the manufacturers of central heating boilers for installations under the Warm Front scheme.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Liquefied Petroleum Gas (11 Dec 2008)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether he has held discussions on possible regulation of the liquefied petroleum gas market.

Royal Assent: International Aid Transparency (13 Nov 2008) has video

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...can take one of the largest countries on earth to the world trade court and, through a relatively informal process, obtain a judgment against it. The second round of multilateral talks is on climate change, with the summit in Potsdam next month, culminating in the summit in Copenhagen neat year. It is important to try to reach agreement on those, because if we do not manage to agree on...

Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]: Burma (14 May 2008) has video

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and the House for giving me the opportunity to sum up this debate. Outrage has quite rightly been expressed at the climatic disaster that occurred on 2 May, Cyclone Nargis. We have heard speeches of despair and of outrage at what happened in Burma from my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr. Mitchell), the hon. Member for Berwickshire,...

[Hugh Bayley in the Chair] — International Development (Sanitation and Water) (1 May 2008)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...an £800 million international environmental transformation fund and there is a Global Environment Facility of £140 million over four years. That is an important Government initiative because it relates to climate change and environmental improvement. Surely, water and sanitation must be a big part of that. I would be grateful if the Minister told us how those big initiatives...

[Ann Winterton in the Chair] — International Health Partnership (6 Mar 2008)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...the globe, and of the challenges that stand in the way of the experts in mitigating those crises. One of the most salient points that arose from this debate came from Dr. Smith, who mentioned the change in the global health framework. As the Minister mentioned at least twice in her speech, in 1948 when the WHO was established, and for some 20 years subsequently, it was the only key global...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Climate Change (20 Nov 2007)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: In view of the Secretary-General's remarks last week that industrialised nations need to play a greater part in tackling climate change, what discussions is the Minister having with colleagues in other Government Departments—the Treasury, for example—so that international forums such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Bank continue to live...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Global Poverty (24 Jul 2007)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...is through debate, scrutiny and proper publication of the goals and aims of each donor project that we can deliver aid more effectively. I agree with the Liberal amendment to the motion. Eliminating or reducing climate change is critical, just as aid is, because if we do not try to reduce climate change, we cannot hand on a better world to our children and grandchildren, and I came into...

Delegated Legislation: European Affairs (6 Dec 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...he is; he would not want me to do so. The Foreign Secretary correctly summed up current European challenges when he defined them at the Finnish embassy lunch on 28 November as "counter-terrorism, climate change, nuclear proliferation, jobs and growth in a globalised world, organised crime, drugs, securing the energy we need to power our economies". I doubt whether anyone could have summed...

Thames Gateway (15 Nov 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...and we have a proper flood attenuation scheme in place." The Minister said tonight that there is only a one in a thousand chance of houses flooding in the Thames barrier area, but we all know that climate change is making matters much more unpredictable. We all know that in large areas of housing, with large areas of tarmac and concrete where rainwater can run off quickly, the risk of...

Seaside Town Regeneration (10 Sep 2003)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...an island nation, our relationship to the border between land and sea is unique and deep rooted. Seaside towns share many similarities with their inland cousins, yet remain fundamentally different: climate, remoteness, ageing and transient populations, changing demands, balancing the needs of day-trippers with residents." That sums up what many hon. Members have said regarding our 43...

Public Bill Committee: Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill: Clause 38 - Sustainable development (21 Jan 2003)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: .... Gentleman will know, as he obviously has an interest in the matter—I shall go through the history of the subject in a moment—that it is an evolving subject. People's views on it have changed. Therefore, the definition that I propose in amendment No. 256 is, for now, the best definition that we can come up with. Were we debating the issue 30 years ago, nobody would think about...

Public Bill Committee: Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill: Clause 18 - Preparation of local development documents (16 Jan 2003)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...this country. Too many houses are flooded each year. We will have to pay more and more attention to that when drawing up such plans. The Environment Agency plans are a one-in-a-100-year event. With climate change we will have to look at planning for shorter periods. In other words, we may have to over-specify in dealing with developments in and around flood plains to ensure that new...

PPG3 (24 Jul 2002)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...Survey to find out whether that work can be speeded up so that local authorities have a better idea of where flood plains are likely to extend? That is particularly important in this era of climate change, when we are getting wetter winters than we used to.