Results 1-6 of 6 for climate change speaker:Liam Fox
- European Union (30 Jun 2005)
Liam Fox: ...also welcome the process of bringing the Balkan states closer to the EU. However, this presidency was the chance to start real reform. Real reform would mean restructuring existing institutions and changing the distribution of powers. That would include bringing powers back from Brussels to the people of Europe. Real reform would also mean a radical overhaul of the common agricultural...
- EU Constitution (8 Jun 2005)
Liam Fox: ...so, but retain the freedom to act on their own where their national interest is at stake. There are areas where sovereignty can be pooled—for example, environmental policy. The challenge of climate change is a global one, and the nations of Europe must work together with others. There is no point, for example, in every nation funding identical research into different sources of...
- Foreign Affairs and Defence (18 May 2005)
Liam Fox: ...has much to offer in Europe and beyond. We will support the Government where they do the right things. We will particularly support their efforts to deal with global warming and the effects of climate change; that affects all the world and its future generations. In the United Kingdom, the compassion of our citizens, the expertise of many of our organisations, our economic and political...
- Royal Liverpool Children's Inquiry (30 Jan 2001)
Dr Liam Fox: ...Secretary of State for the balanced way in which he presented his statement, because there is a need for perspective. Nothing would be worse than blowing up the tragedy and thus creating a general climate of fear and anxiety. That would only make more difficult the complex but necessary work of those engaged in the research from which we may all ultimately benefit. The work is necessarily...
- Land Reform (Scotland) (29 Apr 1998)
Dr Liam Fox: ...are talking about the need to identify barriers to the development of thriving and sustainable rural communities. The necessary test of anything that the Government bring forward will be that any changes in land use must lead to the removal of such barriers expediently and efficiently. Implicit in several of the speeches today is that there has been a positive contribution from private...
- Slaughterhouse Closures (South-West) (21 Oct 1992)
Dr Liam Fox: ...497 cannot be underestimated. The Federation of Fresh Meat Wholesalers has said that it will cost about £400,000 for the smaller slaughterhouses to reach the level of standards of structural change required by the directive, and an infinitely greater sum for some of the larger ones. That is unacceptable. The most recent information supplied to the Commons Library by the Meat and...