Results 1-20 of 29 for climate change speaker:Jeremy Corbyn

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change: EU Action (9 Jul 2008)

Jeremy Corbyn: ...for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the UK will be participating in the conference to be held in Reunion from 7 to 11 July on the EU and its overseas entities strategies to counter climate change and biodiversity loss.

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Development) (7 May 2008)

Jeremy Corbyn: ...of the world's greatest current conflicts is largely ignored by the world's media, as are the good works done by many people in the Congo who are trying to bring about significant improvements and changes. There is not time to go into the country's history today, but we should be aware that Leopold's rule in the Congo was among the most brutal anywhere on the face of the earth. It was a...

Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston (26 Mar 2008)

Jeremy Corbyn: ...? Clearly, the skills are there to achieve that. It seems to me, as it seemed to many others at Aldermaston on Monday, that we live in a world deeply divided between rich and poor that faces enormous environmental consequences from climate change and other massive problems. Does the fantastic level of expenditure on the development of atomic weapons at Aldermaston actually do anything to...

Public Bill Committee: British Overseas Territories Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - British overseas territories (6 Dec 2001)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ..., is the inclusion of the British Antarctic territories in the list of British overseas territories. I acknowledge that nobody lives permanently in the British Antarctic territories, but with climate change one never knows—given time many folk may live there. There are two scientific bases, and although they are not permanently occupied, they are sometimes occupied for 365 days in a...

Climate Change (Conference) (15 Jul 1998)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: This is an important subject. I hope that the House agrees that it is important to have an Adjournment debate on the Government's preparations for the Buenos Aires climate convention later this year. I hope that this and previous Adjournment debates on environmental matters will set a pattern whereby the House debates important issues before the Government go to major international...

Climate Change (Conference) (15 Jul 1998)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...of pollutants are, by a long way, the wealthiest countries. If we now agreed that all carbon dioxide emissions will be cut by a half in the next century—a major undertaking requiring massive changes in industrial systems and the huge use of sustainable systems and technology to achieve anything like it—carbon levels would be at least 40 per cent. higher a century from now. We...

Climate Change (Conference) (15 Jul 1998)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: No. Daniel comes to judgment eventually. I shall move on to a subject that will not please Opposition Members—what we do about climate change now. [Interruption.] It may well please them; I hope so. There are several issues that we have to address. The first is a general one. In 1992, for the first time, the Rio summit took place and some fairly dramatic proposals on sustainability...

Energy Policy (22 Apr 1998)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...of the rain forests and the fires in south Asia. However, we can also identify and measure global warming. I am aware that there is a scientific argument, of sorts, that there are normal climatic variations and changes anyway and that we just happen to be moving into a warmer period. The truth is that the speed with which global temperatures have risen over the past 15 years is...

Orders of the Day — Multilateral Agreement on Investments (23 Feb 1998)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...to impose minimum standards around the world, with the welcome steps taken at Rio a few years ago in setting a worldwide environmental agenda, and with what was achieved at the Kyoto conference on climate change. The MAI will increase world trade and the amount of transport of goods world wide, and I believe it will be very damaging to economies in the poorest developing countries in the...

Business of the House (11 Dec 1997)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: Will there be a statement next week on the outcome of the Kyoto summit on world climate change? Will my right hon. Friend arrange for there to be a full debate early in the new year, in Government time, on the issue of climate change and the world's environment? Each time there is such a major conference, the House should be able to make a serious assessment of its impact and give some...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill: Referendum (19 Nov 1997)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: I could not help but hear what the hon. Gentleman said about the alleged lack of Labour Members in the Chamber. Can he explain why, on a matter as important as world climate change, only two Tory Members were present this morning? They had nothing to say about pollution in London or anywhere else and most Conservative Members stayed away. It may be that they had businesses to go to—I...

Prayers: Earth Summit 2 (11 Jun 1997)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...land in Britain and other parts of western Europe. The question of food miles is a serious one. If a taxation system on aircraft fuel leads to less of that nonsense, that will be welcome. The climate change issue will dominate the summit. The first four months of this year have shown that the global average temperature is 0.37 deg C above the average global temperature between 1951 and...

Prayers: Earth Summit II (19 Mar 1997)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...is totally unsustainable. The current process of economic planning and growth is leading to increased unsustainability, rather than greater protection for the world's natural resources. We have to change course—not just in this country, but worldwide—or we will be looking at total destruction within the next century. Unfortunately, I do not suppose that environmental issues...

Orders of the Day — Antarctica (3 Apr 1996)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...is slow, so environmental damage from oil spills or pollution of any sort takes far longer to be corrected by any natural process than it would in a tropical, sub-tropical or temperate climate such as we live in. An important part of the protocol established the principle of environmental impact assessment of all visits to the Antarctic by anyone—scientific researchers, tourists or...

Opposition Day: Overseas Aid and Development (22 Jun 1994)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...the seas, and we cannot go on destroying natural forests, be they tropical rain forests, temperate forests, Arctic forests or sub-Arctic forests, without paying a penalty. The penalty is in climatic change; the penalty is in environmental disaster. It is not something that will happen; it is happening here and now. The Rio summit, the Rio conference, was an important step forward in that,...

Orders of the Day — Antarctic Bill (25 Feb 1994)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: I am delighted that we are having this debate and that the Bill has been introduced. I fully support it because it represents the culmination of a lot of effort by many people for many years to change the regime and attitudes towards Antarctica. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Jopling) on the content and drafting of the Bill and the fact that we are now...

Orders of the Day — Statement on the Defence Estimates 1992 (21 Jun 1993)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...do not want pressure for increased arms expenditure of the kind that understandably comes from the endless groups of people whose jobs at shipyards, dockyards and factories are threatened because of the changes in defence priorities and who have been offered no alternative work by the Government from people who themselves know that such an increase is neither necessary nor wanted. We need...

Bill Presented: Earth Summit (25 Jun 1992)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...ICI and others that have made a fortune out of the production of CFCs, and even now seek to continue the production of dangerous gases that can only damage our natural environment. We are experiencing a climatic change. It is not something that will happen in the future—it is happening now. Desertification is taking place: the Sahara was not always a desert. In Roman times it was...

Prayers: First Day (7 Nov 1990)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...was produced there in Roman times. Many remnants of old vineyards are to be found on the south downs, which at one time was a more fertile area than now. There was a time when Britain had a warmer climate. Over the past 2,000 years there has been a climatic shift throughout the world. Research has taken place in Antarctica and deep ice cores are able to produce an exact replica of what...

Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill (15 Jan 1990)

Mr Jeremy Corbyn: ...may be necessary, or a Statement from the Secretary of State on the resources that will be devoted to those important issues. If we do not address those major issues, we are heading for a serious climatic and ecological disaster. Indeed, much evidence suggests that it is already occurring. The creation of new deserts where rain forests once stood, the destruction of much of the savannah...