Results 1-6 of 6 for climate change speaker:Michael Lord
- Climate Change Bill [ Lords] (Programme) (No. 2): Climate Change Bill [ Lords] (18 Nov 2008) has video
Michael Lord: I must inform the House that a message has been brought from the Lords as follows. The Lords agree without amendment to certain of the amendments made by the Commons to the Climate Change Bill; they agree to a Commons amendment with an amendment to which they desire the agreement of the Commons; they agree to a Commons amendment with amendments in lieu of the words so left out of the Bill, to...
- Orders of the Day: New Clause 11 — Intervention: defence and national security (25 Jun 2008) has video
Michael Lord: ...(c) and insert— '(b) any other national policy which is relevant to the development, (c) the development plan, (d) the desirability of contributing to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change, (e) the proposed measures for limiting the nature or extent of any negative impact of the development, and (f) any other material considerations.'. Amendment No. 328, in page 49,...
- Intergovernmental Conference (21 Mar 1996)
Mr Michael Lord: ...surprise me, as one who campaigned and voted against Europe in 1975. I did not understand in those days how there could be one set of rules for so many different nations, temperaments, cultures and climates. So I shall not be surprised if the experiment does not ultimately succeed. The question really is how Europe will change. If it is going to break up, will it break up chaotically or...
- Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill (20 May 1992)
Mr Michael Lord: ...from the outset as they have become in the particular over the years, as implementation has proceeded. The very idea that so many different nations, with different cultures, languages, histories, climates and work practices could ever be sensibly regulated by a single set of rules was nonsense. This was pointed out when the Community was formed, but it was denied. As implementation and...
- Forestry (27 Feb 1989)
Mr Michael Lord: ...the two disciplines have become increasingly interconnected I shall make one or two points on both. In forestry, as in agriculture, nothing is more important than continuity. It is impossible to change direction rapidly without causing a great deal of damage. Last year's budget changed the regime from one of tax allowances to one of grants, and I have no objection to that in principle....
- Common Agricultural Policy (10 Mar 1986)
Mr Michael Lord: ...being placed in a framework of quotas, entirely dependent on political decisions, and becoming increasingly divorced from the market place and the ebb and flow of competition and commercial changes. That presents genuine problems and means that in the long-term we could face problems which we have inadvertently created. The beef variable premium has been extremely valuable because, above...