Results 1-20 of 26 for climate change speaker:David Maclean

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

David Maclean: ...powers away from this House. That is one of the greatest threats that this Parliament faces. I, too, however, will not waste more time on the legislative programme. Instead, I want to talk about climate change, which was referred to in the Gracious Speech-and also, briefly, by both Front-Bench spokesmen-since what this Government do on that in international negotiations during the last few...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Schedule 5 (8 Jul 2008)

David Maclean: ...of the week the council deigns to turn up to collect that sort of recycling material. When they get it wrong and are given penalties, I am afraid that they will say, “Well, it’s all this climate change nonsense and saving the planet,” and they could become disillusioned about our main purposes. I will not labour the point; I want to get on to the technical details.

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Schedule 1 - None (1 Jul 2008)

David Maclean: In rising to support the amendments, I want to press the Minister to confirm that, among the membership under paragraph (3)(b) to schedule 1, those with expertise in climate change policy at national and international level and, in particular, the social aspects of such policy, will have a detailed knowledge of the impact on indigenous peoples in rain forest areas of the world. I also seek...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Schedule 1 - None (1 Jul 2008)

David Maclean: ...consist of a chairman and a maximum of eight other people, yet paragraph 1(3) lists nine distinct disciplines on which an expert is needed—that is only one of each. When the Bill says “climate change” and “other branches of...science”, it can only be at most one person. Unless there are more than nine people on the committee, not all the disciplines and skills...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 25 (1 Jul 2008)

David Maclean: ...to move amendment No. 83, in clause 25, page 13, line 22, at end add— ‘(3) In this section “sinks” mean land-based carbon sinks which have been assessed by the Committee on Climate Change as being, or likely to be permanent.’.

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 25 (1 Jul 2008)

David Maclean: ...suffer, so let us not pay attention to the trees and the forests and the land that we have and let us not exploit it to the full.” That is barking. If we are to be successful in meeting our climate change targets and are to do genuine good, yes, we must have targets for industry to reduce the amount of carbon emissions and for the rest of us to drive less or to have a cleaner or...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 11 (26 Jun 2008)

David Maclean: ...was seeking to incorporate a little bit of vision in the Bill because I think that it lacks it. One of the reasons why we are here is because people have a vision of the disastrous consequences of climate change if it goes unchecked. I was merely seeking—in a technically inadequate way, I know—to introduce some concepts that the Minister says are already implicit in the...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 11 (26 Jun 2008)

David Maclean: ...attention not seen since I was at the Earth sum in Rio in 1992. The Stern report—and thank goodness that the Government are to keep Stern working for them—showed the important link between forests and climate. This is a climate change Bill, and one fifth of the total annual carbon emissions now come from land use changes, especially tropical deforestation. In fact, cutting down...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 11 (26 Jun 2008)

David Maclean: I beg to move amendment No. 38, in clause 11, page 6, line 19, at end insert— ‘( ) rises in global temperature, ( ) the impact of climate change on world biodiversity, ( ) loss of world forests (with particular reference to rain forests),’.

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 11 (26 Jun 2008)

David Maclean: ...or ask the same thing. Clause 11(2) says that “the Secretary of State in coming to any decision under this Part relating to carbon budgets” has to take “scientific knowledge about climate change” into account. I want to insert three proposals that would make it absolutely clear that among the scientific knowledge the Secretary of State had to take into account would...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 (26 Jun 2008)

David Maclean: ...would like the Minister, in responding to the clause stand part debate, to give me firm reassurances about subsection (2). If the Secretary of State is going to consider scientific knowledge about climate change, biodiversity loss will be among the many things that he will consider. According to Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, who is a world expert on biodiversity at Stanford university, the most...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 (26 Jun 2008)

David Maclean: ...value to the services provided by species and ecosystems. The report says that those systems are often undervalued by humanity. That is an important new piece of scientific knowledge relating to climate change that none of us knew about and which scientists have generally not taken into account in the past.

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (24 Jun 2008)

David Maclean: ...the millions of acres of world forests that are being destroyed and lost, never to be recovered. We know exactly the amount of diversity that is being lost, all of which has an immediate impact on climate change and world health. The World Health Organisation makes that clear. So, yes, the sceptics and scientists may argue, but there is already a huge body of fact.

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 (24 Jun 2008)

David Maclean: .... Once the Bill is on the statute book, we might forget why we enacted it. What is the purpose of passing this important measure? The purpose is not to create reporting committees or to set up a wonderful Committee on Climate Change to advise the Government. The purpose, as it says in clause 1, is to try to do things that contribute to reducing world temperature. The clause does not put an...

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

David Maclean: ...I mention that to ensure that I remain in order when I mention the passionate subject of rain forests, which are part of the overall sustainable development plan and play a key role in dealing with climate change. It is almost 16 years to the day since I last addressed this subject. I quote from The New York Times of 7 June 1992: "Diplomats attending the Earth Summit said today that they...

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

David Maclean: ...and the developing countries, they are not going to sign up to lower carbon emissions. It is a long time since I negotiated with Environment Ministers from those countries and perhaps the mood has changed, but I suspect that many of them still regard the climate change debate as a western plot to hold them back. They are certainly not going to meet the targets that we are imposing on...

Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)

David Maclean: ...50 per cent. of my constituents are not online and they cannot access the website. That is why I say that a Bill to outlaw that sort of discrimination is long overdue. I support what the Government are aiming to do on climate change. I was pleased to hear the Prime Minister say today that, if we closed the whole of British industry, it would make no difference to the expansion of China...

Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)

David Maclean: ...clans in the borders. I shall get back to the main subject before I am led down a further ethnic route. I want to make a final point about rural areas. I served on a Committee that dealt with the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill in 2005. When will the Government get away from their obsession with wind farms? With declining agriculture, this country has tens, if not hundreds, of...

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

Mr David Maclean: ...19 July 2001, Official Report column 412, to the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight), on what date officials of HM Customs and Excise first met to consider the charging of VAT on climate change levy liabilities; and how many times they have subsequently met.

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (2 Jul 2001)

Mr David Maclean: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much VAT revenue he forecasts will be raised in the current financial year as a result of the introduction of the climate change levy and consequent application of VAT.