Results 1-20 of 21 for climate change speaker:Michael Howard

G8 (11 Jul 2005)

Michael Howard: ...nature, cannot live up to all the hopes invested in them. The Prime Minister has accepted that he did not achieve everything that he wanted to achieve, but the agreements on world poverty and on climate change hold out the prospect of further advances later this year. We all know what is at stake. In Africa, 8,000 people die every day from HIV/AIDS, while 7,000 die from hunger and 6,000...

Prime Minister: Engagements (22 Jun 2005)

Michael Howard: In 1997, the Prime Minister promised to cut carbon emissions by 20 per cent. Since then, carbon emissions have risen. Last week, the Minister concerned announced a delay in the UK climate change review programme. Is it not the case that Britain is becoming the dirty man of Europe, and that the Prime Minister's moral authority to persuade others to tackle climate change is being fatally...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (7 Nov 2002)

Mr Michael Howard: Is the Paymaster General proud of the fact that this Government have managed to combine the anti-competitive impact of the climate change levy with an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, as was recently pointed out by Friends of the Earth? Has she read the recent remarks of Digby Jones, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry, who said that the levy is Xdamaging key...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (15 Nov 2001)

Mr Michael Howard: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the impact of the climate change levy on manufacturing productivity. [R]

Written Answers — Treasury: Productivity (26 Oct 2001)

Mr Michael Howard: ...of the Exchequer what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry regarding the effect on UK productivity of (a) the regulatory burden on business and (b) the climate change levy. [R]

Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Jun 2001)

Mr Michael Howard: ...on trade, the environment and defence in particular were already present. They are real and they are acute. Of course, what makes them more difficult to resolve is the fact that fundamental changes are taking place, both in north America and in Europe, which, again, could make it ever more difficult in the years that lie ahead to maintain that Atlantic partnership, which has been such a...

Security and Intelligence Agencies (2 Nov 1998)

Mr Michael Howard: ..., will my right hon. Friend the Member for Bridgwater tell the House a little more about the Committee's plans in that regard and what progress, if any, has been made? One of the most significant changes in recent years in the Security Service has been the additional responsibilities entrusted to it concerning serious organised crime—a change made when I was Home Secretary. I...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Budget (24 Mar 1993)

Mr Michael Howard: ...in Brussels on Monday. As a result of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor's Budget, we already have in place measures that take us two thirds of the way towards achieving our target under the climate change convention that we signed up to at Rio. In the next few months, we shall announce how we propose to fulfil the other third of our target.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: EC Presidency (15 Jul 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: ...is a little behind the times. He needs to take into account the recent communique agreed at Munich by the Group of Seven countries, inviting other countries to join them in ratifying the climate change convention by the end of 1993. That convention was agreed at Rio, very significantly as a result of the efforts of the United Kingdom, so we can fairly claim to be in the lead on this matter.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: EC Presidency (15 Jul 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his welcome for my announcement about the agency. I expect the announcement to be widely welcomed. As for the climate change convention which was agreed at Rio, the United States has declared that it intends to take early action to discharge its obligation under that convention and that it will call a meeting later this year to discuss the matter. Of...

Bill Presented: Earth Summit (25 Jun 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: ...at the summit gave a clear international lead on many of the most vital issues before the conference. One of the most important achievements of the conference was the framework convention on climate change. It took 16 months to negotiate and provides a significant first step in the global response to climate change. It commits countries to devise measures to combat climate change and to...

Bill Presented: Earth Summit (25 Jun 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: ...eight-point plan for follow-up action by their countries by the end of 1993. That would include the publication of national plans for implementing the Rio declaration, Agenda 21, the forestry principles and the climate change convention, and action on biodiversity. It also includes taking the lead at the UN General Assembly in the establishment of the Sustainable Development Commission,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Earth Summit (17 Jun 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: We certainly played a part in reaching a position that enabled the United States to sign the climate change convention. As the United States is responsible for 25 per cent. of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, it was essential that it signed up to that treaty. The United States took a different view about the biodiversity treaty, but it has agreed to take part in the processes under that...

Earth Summit (3 Jun 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: I fear that it may take a considerable time to correct all the hon. Gentleman's misapprehensions, if he will forgive my saying so. The negotiations for the treaty on the climate change convention were completed on 9 May and the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) is right in saying that we played a prominent role in the preparations for that treaty. I discussed the text of...

Earth Summit (3 Jun 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: ...at Rio will be the creation of new international legal institutions to deal with immediately urgent problems. The most important and difficult of those agreements is the framework convention on climate change. We have also been working towards a convention to protect the planet's great diversity of plant and animal species, and to adopt a declaration on the protection of forests—to...

Earth Summit (3 Jun 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: ...those goals, and I believe that we have every reason to take pride in that role. As the House will know, on 9 May the United Nations intergovernmental negotiating committee adopted a convention on climate change. That followed 16 months of difficult and delicate negotiations. The convention will now be opened for signature during the United Nations Conference on environment and...

Earth Summit (3 Jun 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: ...additional resources to this fund at the appropriate stage to replenish it. This will enable it to provide resources to support the developing countries in undertaking their commitments under the climate change convention and for biodiversity projects. In all these ways, we are making a positive and significant contribution to the financial discussions involved in the Rio summit.

Environment, Local Government and Education (12 May 1992)

Mr Michael Howard: I am sorry. I have given way many times and must get on. I hope, too, that it will be widely accepted that when we change the rights of tenants in the ways that I have described, and the rights of parents in the ways that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education will describe later in the debate, we are not attacking local government. It should be the servant of its...

Prayers: High Technology (European Co-operation) (21 Mar 1986)

Mr Michael Howard: ...in research is not matched by its performance in producing and selling products. We have a good record for winning Nobel prizes, but not for winning new markets. But there are positive signs of changing attitudes towards the better exploitation of research and development so as to sell products, processes and services not just in Europe but in world markets. That new spirit is shown by...

City of London (Fraud) (18 Dec 1985)

Mr Michael Howard: ...early in the new year and that it will play a critical role in enabling the criminal law to be a more effective vehicle for prosecuting fraud. Meanwhile, the Government are undertaking major changes in the system of prosecuting fraud. We have heard mention of the fraud investigation group system, which is designed to co-ordinate the legal and investigative aspects of an inquiry. It...