Results 1-19 of 19 for climate change speaker:Michael Foster
- Written Answers — International Development: Overseas Territories: Climate Change (20 Oct 2009)
Michael Foster: The Project Enhancing Capacity for Adaptation to Climate Change is ongoing. Monitoring reports show progress is being made against each of the objectives—establishing climate change focal points and committees, building capacity, developing public education and outreach programmes, developing national strategies, and sharing information. Department for International Development...
- Written Answers — International Development: Nepal (9 Jun 2009)
Michael Foster: ...assistance for Nepal over the next three financial years 2009-10 to 2011-12. This will be spent on supporting the peace process, improving governance, services, growth and jobs and in the fight against climate change.
- Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: British Overseas Territories: Environment Protection (1 Jun 2009)
Michael Foster: I have been asked to reply. This DFID-funded project is managed by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC). It is expected that by the end of the project the five UK Overseas Territories in the Caribbean (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands) will have developed national climate change adaptation strategies and public awareness and...
- Written Answers — International Development: Guyana: Rainforests (20 Mar 2009)
Michael Foster: ...has contributed £15 million) and recently submitted its Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation Readiness Plan. Guyana is included in the Caribbean Regional Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, and may also be part of the Caribbean Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (part of the Climate Investment Funds to which the UK is contributing £250 million)....
- St. Helena (Airport) (17 Mar 2009)
Michael Foster: ..., there is no difference between us on a long-term commitment to St. Helena. However, in facing the challenges before us today, the Government must be responsible and take stock if circumstances change to the extent that they have. That is what we are doing. That is why we announced the consultation exercise yesterday; we want to ensure that all views will have been heard when we come to...
- Written Answers — International Development: Developing Countries: Climate Change (4 Mar 2009)
Michael Foster: An internationally agreed definition of what constitutes spending on (iii) adaptation to climate change does not currently exist, and the international financial institutions do not have publicly available estimates of their own spending in this area for the last two years. The Department for International Development (DFID) is working with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
- Written Answers — International Development: Guyana (11 Feb 2009)
Michael Foster: ...to which the UK contributed £15 million) is preparing a reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation readiness plan. Guyana is included in the Caribbean Regional Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, and also likely to be part of the Caribbean Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (part of the climate investment funds to which the UK is contributing £250...
- Written Answers — International Development: Developing Countries: Debts (5 Feb 2009)
Michael Foster: ...development, and secured agreement at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that other Export Credit Agencies do the same. One of our major responses to the challenge of climate change has been to set up the climate investment funds (CIFs). Low and middle income countries will benefit from these resources, and the CIFs will provide grants and concessional loans....
- Written Answers — International Development: Guyana: Rain Forests (13 Jan 2009)
Michael Foster: ...which the UK has contributed £15 million, to prepare a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation Readiness Plan. Guyana is included in the Caribbean Regional Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. In addition, we have undertaken to discuss with Guyana the results of the Eliasch Review into climate change and the financing of forests. DFID officials will meet this...
- Written Answers — International Development: Departmental Research (10 Dec 2008)
Michael Foster: ...for the Department for International Development's (DFID) research is set out in the DFID Research Strategy 2008-13 published in April this year. The six theme areas are health, sustainable agriculture, growth, climate change, governance in challenging environments and future challenges and opportunities. A link to the DFID Research Strategy is as follows:...
- Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Climate Change (5 Nov 2008) has video
Michael Foster: Climate change poses a serious and long-term threat to development in poor countries. To tackle this, the Department is pushing for an ambitious new global agreement to combat climate change. Our core business of lifting people out of poverty is still the most effective way of reducing the impact of climate change on the world's poorest people. We are supporting countries to integrate climate...
- Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Climate Change (5 Nov 2008) has video
Michael Foster: I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. Bangladesh's geography and poverty combine to make it especially vulnerable to climate change. DFID has helped to raise the floors of some 32,000 homes in Bangladesh—the equivalent of a small city in our country—above the one-in-100-year flood level. In addition, we have announced a £75 million programme to help the country to adapt...
- Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Climate Change (5 Nov 2008) has video
Michael Foster: May I say how much we welcome the pledges made during the election campaign by President-elect Obama? We are pushing for a post-2012 agreement on climate change and as part of that campaign we believe that it is important to engage with our European allies and European partners. If I could just tease the hon. Gentleman, I would say that isolation in the European Union is not good for the...
- Written Answers — International Development: South America: Research (23 Oct 2008)
Michael Foster: The Department for International Development has co-funded with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) scoping studies related to climate change adaptation research in Asia and Latin America. In Latin America as a whole, the priority adaptation research themes identified were agriculture, governance, health, social protection, migration, water, financial institutions and...
- Written Answers — International Development: Developing Countries: Climate Change (14 Oct 2008)
Michael Foster: Lifting people out of poverty decreases vulnerability to climate change, so all of the UK's poverty reduction work has a role in addressing the effect of climate change. The UK is also working to prevent the most serious potential impacts by pushing for an ambitious new global agreement to tackle climate change and helping developing countries prepare for international negotiations. Around...
- Written Answers — International Development: Development Banks (14 Oct 2008)
Michael Foster: ...boards have approved clean energy investment frameworks and associated work plans covering implementation. The UK has committed over £15 million to help the banks undertake analytical work on climate change mitigation and adaptation issues, to study the economics of climate change, and to take forward a number of low carbon growth strategies. In July 2008 at the G8 summit in Hokkaido,...
- Buses (Concessionary Fares) (6 Jul 2004)
Mr Michael Foster: ...not have contributed to free bus travel for pensioners, but, upon retirement, if they moved to Birmingham or Dudley, they would immediately benefit from it, and, importantly, vice versa. Indeed, changes in local government boundaries, not unusual in themselves, can lead to changes in entitlement to free bus travel. Universal free bus travel would avoid those problems. I know that some in...
- Flooding (16 Jul 2002)
Mr Michael Foster: ...the city further along the riverside and in the Diglis docks area, which is alongside the River Severn and the canal, which is just above the flood plain, but there is anxiety about how to do so. I fear that with climate change and the increased frequency and severity of flooding, there may be difficulties. My last point is about insurance. Insurance companies are doing a great deal,...
- Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: River Severn (31 Jan 2002)
Mr Michael Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the implications of climate change upon the risk of flooding of the River Severn.