Results 1-20 of 65 for climate change speaker:Patricia Hewitt

European Affairs (9 Dec 2008) has video

Patricia Hewitt: ...skills in trading issues. Those skills will stand us in good stead as we develop, both in Europe and globally, the emissions trading system that we need as a central part of our programme to tackle climate change. We have learned important lessons from phase 1 of the emissions trading scheme. I welcome the fact that the British Government have been at the forefront of ensuring that those...

European Affairs (9 Dec 2008) has video

Patricia Hewitt: I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that point, and for her support for my argument; I think that she is right. The action that the European Union is already taking, and will take, on climate change through a strengthened emissions trading scheme is vital in itself, as is the contribution that the largest single market in the world can make towards reducing pollution levels. It is also...

European Affairs (9 Dec 2008) has video

Patricia Hewitt: ...Obama, as he made clear in his election campaign, gives a high priority, and quite rightly so, to the much larger relationship between the United States and the EU as a whole. Whether on issues of climate change or on global trade and the need both to combat protectionism and to secure the Doha development round, the relationship between the US and the EU as a whole is absolutely critical....

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Lisbon Treaty (16 Jun 2008) has video

Patricia Hewitt: ...that he is in discussion with his Cabinet colleagues about how best to take forward some of the most urgent issues of policy substance that face the European Union, especially how to deal with climate change at such a difficult time of rising global energy prices?

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill: European Union (Amendment) Bill — [12th Allotted Day] (11 Mar 2008) has video

Patricia Hewitt: ..., but by the real challenges that face our world. As we have heard so often in these debates, those can be tackled effectively only if we work with our partners in the EU. The challenges include climate change, international terrorism and international crime. They include our global competitiveness on the one hand and how we end global poverty on the other. The immense challenge is how...

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 6): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 7) (26 Feb 2008)

Patricia Hewitt: ...world in which we live, and the fact that there are more and more problems that we will only solve together and more and more aspirations that we will only achieve together, whether in regard to climate change, energy security, the trafficking of children and women, or the fight against international terrorism—the many issues that we have been discussing in these debates on the Bill....

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 6): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 7) (26 Feb 2008)

Patricia Hewitt: I entirely agree. My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. Whether on climate change or on a whole range of economic issues, the largest single market in the world needs to be able to operate effectively—and, when there is agreement, to speak with a single voice—if we are to have the influence that we need, not only on the United States but on China, India and other...

Points of Order: Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2) — (2nd Allotted Day) (30 Jan 2008)

Patricia Hewitt: ...facing consumers following the wholesale price rises across the globe. At the same time, we have seen for many years the rightly increasing concern among the British public about the impact of climate change, and therefore the need to change—indeed, to reduce—our energy use. I intend to develop a point made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise...

Points of Order: Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2) — (2nd Allotted Day) (30 Jan 2008)

Patricia Hewitt: The reality is that rising demand for energy, increased competition for supplies and climate change mean that all countries, including Britain, will have to find the right energy mix. We need much greater energy efficiency, and we lag behind many of our European partners in that respect. We will also need to make use of renewables, cleaner coal, oil and gas, and nuclear energy—although...

Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (28 Jan 2008)

Patricia Hewitt: ...They want to speak to me about rising energy prices, to which, of course, the liberalisation that is so urgently needed in the European Union is one of the major responses. They want to talk about climate change, about human trafficking, and about the welcome cuts in mobile phone roaming charges and other benefits to consumers that have come, and will come in future, from the European...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Nov 2007) has video

Patricia Hewitt: ...should also support the European reform treaty that will allow an enlarged European Union to put behind us institutional questions and instead concentrate on what really matters, including tackling climate change?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: EU Reform Treaty (9 Oct 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the new treaty gives the European Union the opportunity to put behind us procedural arguments about the changes required for enlargement, and instead gives us the opportunity to concentrate on the really urgent challenges that we face, notably climate change?

Written Ministerial Statements — Trade and Industry: DTI Five Year Programme (17 Nov 2004)

Ms Patricia Hewitt: ...European democracies, with wage costs which are 10 per cent. of ours, have joined the EU. In order for the UK to maintain, and build on our strong economic position, we will have to respond to this changing environment. The five-year programme argues that innovation through the application of science and technology, with highly skilled people, is the key to our country's future prosperity....

Energy Bill [Lords]: Schedule 9 — Taxation provisions relating to nuclear transfer schemes (13 Jul 2004)

Ms Patricia Hewitt: ...who served on the Standing Committee? The Bill is part of the Government's continued commitment to deliver a sustainable energy future for the United Kingdom. We face enormous challenges—climate change, declining indigenous energy supplies and ageing infrastructure. We cannot ignore those challenges, for our own sake and for the sake of future generations. In the energy White Paper...

Energy Bill [Lords]: Schedule 9 — Taxation provisions relating to nuclear transfer schemes (13 Jul 2004)

Ms Patricia Hewitt: ...the preparation of the energy White Paper. I am quite satisfied that Ofgem fulfils its statutory duties, as laid down by Parliament, and that it takes into account our commitment to deliver on our climate change goals, and on all our other goals, through an increase in renewable energy.

Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords] (10 May 2004)

Ms Patricia Hewitt: ...to a sustainable energy policy, which we set out last year in the energy White Paper and which is designed to deal with three major challenges facing our nation. The first is the challenge of climate change, the second is the shift from being a net exporter of energy to becoming a net importer, and the third is the need to modernise our energy infrastructure to cope with changing...

Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords] (10 May 2004)

Ms Patricia Hewitt: ...'s recommendations. The second main area of the Bill deals with renewable energy. Every developed country is turning to renewable energy technology to deal with the increasingly urgent problem of climate change. Renewable energy undoubtedly offers huge business opportunities, as well as being a way of addressing an urgent environmental imperative.

Written Ministerial Statements — Trade and Industry: Invest~UK Annual Review (9 Jul 2003)

Ms Patricia Hewitt: ...a small increase in the number of new jobs—34,396—that these investments will create. This performance reflects the confidence, which companies around the world continue to show in the business climate in the UK. Indeed, excluding mergers and acquisitions, in which there has been a major global decline, the number of new investments and expansions reached the second highest...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Inward Investment (1 May 2003)

Ms Patricia Hewitt: ...the increase in national insurance contributions will help to secure the huge improvements in the national health service that everybody in our country, including employers, wants. I know that the climate change levy and the climate change agreements are already delivering measurable improvements in energy efficiency throughout manufacturing, thereby helping to reduce costs. I know also...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Renewable Energy (1 May 2003)

Ms Patricia Hewitt: I made it clear when I published the White Paper, and in a statement to the House, that I believe that our intentions to achieve both our climate change objectives and our energy efficiency objectives are achievable, by a massive increase in energy efficiency throughout the economy and by a substantial increase in renewable energy. There is no doubt that it will be tough. That is why we are...