Results 1-20 of 63 for climate change speaker:Barry Gardiner

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

Barry Gardiner: ...children-that was petty and divisive, which is a precise description of what Conservative party policy on education was all about. This Queen's Speech is right to talk about the need for action on climate change and to look forward to COP15 in Copenhagen next month. With a number of hon. Members, I had the privilege of attending the Globe Forum on climate change and energy in Copenhagen...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Barry Gardiner: I am glad that my right hon. Friend has nailed the scientific element at the beginning. Does he agree that if the science showed that climate change is not man-made, the problem would be that much more urgent, and our action to remedy it would be that much more urgent, because we would not know what was causing the increases in the carbon dioxide emissions that are causing temperature fluctuation?

Sri Lanka (IDP Camps) — [Dr. William McCrea in the Chair] (28 Oct 2009)

Barry Gardiner: ...to fighting the injustice perpetrated by the Sri Lankan Government. The other day, I was with a delegation of Chinese parliamentarians. Ostensibly, I was speaking to them in a meeting about climate change. However, the most important dialogue that we had was about the Chinese role in supporting and funding the Sri Lankan Government, their part in funding the military hardware that was used...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Barry Gardiner: .... by 2011. Under the Liberal and Tory policies at Brent council, the 20 per cent. reduction will not be reached until 2020. I regret the tone of today's debate. Normally when we debate matters of climate change, we have a considered and measured debate that is consensual and, usually, good. The responsibility for the way in which this debate has gone is to be found in the nature of the...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Barry Gardiner: The hon. Gentleman spoke of the necessity for frameworks, which he has supported. I welcome that, but does he agree that having established the framework, having got the Climate Change Committee to make its recommendations, and having drawn up for Government a programme to enact those recommendations, it does not make sense to do something else and ask the Government to sign up to 10:10,...

Biofuels (13 Oct 2009) has video

Barry Gardiner: There is a challenge facing the world, and it is to seal the deal on combating climate change at the UN conference on climate change meeting in Copenhagen in December. In its last report, the intergovernmental panel on climate change considered that the 2° C rise in temperature that marks dangerous climate change would be triggered by a CO2 emissions concentration level of 450 parts per...

Biofuels (13 Oct 2009) has video

Barry Gardiner: ...or cultivation of raw materials, including tillage, cultivation, the carbon costs of waste and leakage, and the production of chemicals or products used; annualised emissions from carbon stock changes caused by direct land use change; emissions from processing; and emissions from transport and distribution, as well as the emissions from the biofuel when used. There should be subtracted...

Bills Presented: Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (16 Jul 2009) has video

Barry Gardiner: .... I am pleased that the Government have given a commitment that we would do only 10 per cent. of double counting, as it were, where there are actions that can both reduce poverty and mitigate climate change, but is he confident that the Opposition share that view?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Building our Common Future (6 Jul 2009)

Barry Gardiner: My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that poverty reduction requires us to focus on climate change; that was a welcome part of his statement. Will he go slightly further and recognise that in tackling climate change as part of the anti-poverty strategy, we must focus on land-use change and ecosystem services, which are a part of the parcel?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: European Council (23 Jun 2009)

Barry Gardiner: Interim targets on climate change suggest that by 2020 there must be a reduction of 17 gigatonnes from business as usual. Given that only 5 gigatonnes are achievable within the developed world, at a cost of less than €60 per tonne, what assessment has the Prime Minister made of the amount of funds that will need to be made in offsets to achieve the required reduction?

Business of the House: UK Climate Projections (18 Jun 2009) has video

Barry Gardiner: I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. He will be aware of the intergovernmental panel on climate change's last, rather out-of-date forecast that remaining at just 2° would involve a figure of 450 parts per million. The latest projections would require a reduction from business as usual of 17 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions globally by 2020. It would be possible to achieve only a 5...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the law (22 Apr 2009)

Barry Gardiner: ...tomorrow's world better and more sustainable for those future generations. That means new jobs in biotech, digital communications and, above all, in green technology and renewable and low-carbon energy. Climate change is certainly the most complex question of justice that the world has ever faced. It is about justice across the generations and not just geographical boundaries, and about...

Peak Oil (27 Feb 2009)

Barry Gardiner: ...more likely, just passed peak oil—the point on the Hubbard curve at which the maximum rate of global production has been reached. Secondly, and directly related to that, is the challenge of climate change and the need to stabilise average global temperatures to no more than a 2° celsias rise. Although the report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change (12 Feb 2009)

Barry Gardiner: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what account he has taken of the effect of climate change on the economy in his preparations for the carbon budget.

Business of the House (13 Nov 2008) has video

Barry Gardiner: Yesterday, a group of all-party MPs met senior staffers from the Senate offices in Washington to discuss issues of climate change. One point that was made forcefully to us was that labour organisations and unions in this country are so much more ahead and part of the debate than they are in the United States. Will my right hon. and learned Friend find ways in which we could encourage further...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 15 — Advice on emissions from international aviation and international shipping (28 Oct 2008) has video

Barry Gardiner: Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the research carried out by Lord Stern and others, showing that the costs of inaction are substantially higher than the costs of acting to mitigate climate change now?

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008)

Barry Gardiner: ...and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley). I just pray that the right hon. Member for Fylde and the hon. Member for South Suffolk represent the true position and authentic voice of the Tory party on the issue. Climate change is real. It is caused by human action, and it is already affecting the lives of millions of people throughout the world. If climate change is a fact, it is also important that we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Sale and Distribution) (2 Apr 2008) has video

Barry Gardiner: .... Last year, the Stern report commissioned by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister pointed out that between 18 and 24 per cent. of all the greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to climate change come from deforestation. If we put all the power stations in the world together—coal-fired, nuclear and all the other technologies for producing electricity—only then would...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007)

Barry Gardiner: ...the Opposition espoused in a recent speech. Nothing brings us closer to the reason why a policy of scepticism is inappropriate for this and every other country than the issues of globalisation and climate change. Climate change has made us all aware that we live in a world where the actions of one country integrally affect the lives of those in many others. We have experienced development...

Forest Protection (18 Jul 2007)

Barry Gardiner: ...compounds, calanolides A and B from the bintangor tree, which are effective against various strains of HIV. The forest also performs more mundane services for the local population, stabilising the climate, controlling soil erosion and regulating the supply of clean water. Those eco-system services are simply the essentials of life for 20 million people living on the island. For the past...