Results 1-11 of 11 for climate change speaker:Mike Gapes

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

Mike Gapes: The Prime Minister is to be congratulated on pushing climate change up the agenda of the meeting. Does he agree that climate change is a bigger threat to the future of humankind than any of the regional conflicts, the economic crisis or the terrorism so prevalent in the world today? We need to act urgently on the climate change agenda.

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009)

Mike Gapes: ...economy, as has the US, so it is clear that we in Europe need to work together in world trade talks and, with the Copenhagen meeting coming up later this year, in the international negotiations on climate change. If we do not, the agendas will be set, and the conclusions written, by others. As Europeans, we have to get into the real world of the 21st century and stop pretending that we are...

Africa (30 Mar 2009) has video

Mike Gapes: ...the maps by colonial administrators, do not bear any relationship to the ethnicities or histories of many of the peoples trapped on either side of them. Africa has nomadic people, who, because of climate change and desertification, sometimes have to move hundreds of miles to find water supplies or fresh grazing land. There have been civil wars and wars of intervention from outside....

Points of Order: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights (13 Oct 2008) has video

Mike Gapes: ...is the question of what happens in north Africa and in the Arab world. Many African countries are Arab countries, and that has an enormous impact not only on potential migration resulting from climate change, but on radicalism, extremism and terrorism. There is a huge agenda, but there is also an irony in respect of the African countries, many of which have weak Governments and need the...

Orders of the Day: European Affairs (18 Jun 2008) has video

Mike Gapes: ...;he is a strong advocate of the Lisbon treaty—in which he referred to the Irish people retreating under their comfort blanket. He referred to the impact of globalisation, migration and other changes in the world—issues that were not specifically part of the Lisbon treaty. For whatever reason, Ireland has voted and has rejected ratification of the treaty. Personally, I regret...

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

Mike Gapes: ...8212;then she was put under house arrest, which she has been unable to leave. It is important to place that on the record today. The hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) referred to the impact of climate change. Sadly, that issue, which we are confronting today, will have to be confronted more and more in this century. Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions impact on coastal...

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (26 Feb 2008)

Mike Gapes: ...Union to move away from the introspection and navel gazing of the past few years and start to focus on the real agenda, which includes business, efficiency and how to deal with the environment, climate change and the challenges of globalisation.

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (26 Feb 2008)

Mike Gapes: ...voting, and I shall briefly move on to one or two other areas. The annual budgetary procedure will require the Council and the European Parliament to approve all European Union expenditure, which changes the current arrangement, whereby agricultural spending, which has historically accounted for the majority of European Union spending, is ring-fenced and separate. Previously, there was the...

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (30 Jan 2008)

Mike Gapes: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The EU united with a common voice can stand up to Russia and say that Russia's behaviour is unacceptable. Similarly, it can act in climate change and world trade negotiations and many other spheres much more effectively than the individual states alone could act. No matter how big a country—whether its population is 80 million, like that of Germany,...

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair] — East Asia (1 Feb 2007)

Mike Gapes: ...that it has failed in the last few years to make any progress on environmental protection. The Committee, therefore, welcomed the appointment of John Ashton to lead the Foreign Office's work on climate change. Mr Ashton, who gave evidence to the Committee last year, told us about his ideas for EU-China co-operation on energy-saving technology. Now that he is no longer an outsider, but in...

Orders of the Day: Infrastructure Audit (Housing Development) Bill (14 Jul 2006)

Mike Gapes: ...78,000 at the election, will increase to about 82,000 in the next three or four years and will probably reach 90,000 10 years from now. I therefore face considerable pressure. Problems involving changes of circumstances and a lack of facilities apply equally in urban areas, with one exception—the beautiful Valentines park, where Essex used to play their cricket. We had a problem with...