Results 1-10 of 10 for climate change speaker:Lord Maclennan of Rogart

European Union (Amendment) Bill (1 Apr 2008)

Lord Maclennan of Rogart: ...place to decide this issue. I beg to differ, and profoundly, for British reasons. We in this country have a long tradition of considering our treaties in this manner if they result in or require changes in the law to make our law conform to the decisions taken by our popularly elected Government in negotiations on treaties. We are acting entirely according to British constitutional...

EU Commission: Policy Strategy 2008 (EUC Report) (28 Feb 2008)

Lord Maclennan of Rogart: ...of action within the wider scope of the four headings that are being, by common consent, recognised as strategic priorities. Two of them seemed to be of massive importance at this time; namely, climate change and energy security. The difficulty for the Commission in proceeding in these ways is that it does not work in an abstract way, separate from the changing situation. It is very...

EU: UK Membership (14 Jun 2007)

Lord Maclennan of Rogart: ...were capable of focusing on issues in a continuing way and not simply indulging in aspirational rhetoric. That is the danger today in the European Union. We have heard a great deal about the threat of climate change and the importance of having an energy response to secure our supplies. I welcome what happened at Hampton Court and at the last Council, in which these issues were at the top...

Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2006 (25 Jan 2006)

Lord Maclennan of Rogart: ...operative effect of the management of the amendment of the 2004 Act to include reference to civil partners in the list of potential beneficiaries of firefighters. If this is required to achieve the change in time, then it is welcome. I am not entirely clear that I have followed the question of the noble Duke, the Duke of Montrose, about the basis of the provision stemming from an Act that...

European Union Developments (21 Jun 2005)

Lord Maclennan of Rogart: ...in the Ukraine and the dialogue with Iran over its nuclear capability are recent examples of this impulse. The good sense of the Union tackling together the relief of world poverty, the problems of climate change and environmental pollution, terrorism and cross-border crime seems to me to be manifest. The development of a defence capability to promote peacekeeping and to safeguard...

European Union: UK Presidency (9 Mar 2005)

Lord Maclennan of Rogart: ...for carrying the priorities forward by the six member countries involved in the presidency during this period, show the awareness of the Union's leaders that it does not make sense to change direction every six months, on the assumption of the presidency by a new member state. If the gulf between rhetorical setting of goals and the effective delivery of ends is to be bridged by the...

Energy Bill [HL] (18 Mar 2004)

Lord Maclennan of Rogart: ...requiring annual reports to be so detailed, but surely he will appreciate that we are in an unusual situation so far as concerns energy. In a previous debate, a right reverend Prelate described the climate change phenomenon on the world as perhaps being ahead in terms of significance of even terrorism. When we are considering the security of supply and climate change, this is not unusual;...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: General Right of Access to Information Held by Public Authorities (4 Apr 2000)

Mr Robert Maclennan: ...of hon. Members of all parties. We are seeking the same objective, which I should have thought would conform with the Government's stated wish to ensure that the enactment of the Bill will effect a climatic change in the business of administration. There should not be an adversarial procedure between those who seek information and want to open matters up, and those who hold that...

Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Licences (24 Apr 1991)

Mr Robert Maclennan: ...situation than we were at that time. Advertising revenue is substantially reduced and those companies which are contemplating bidding for the franchises for Channel 3 are doing so in a cold climate. That makes the cross-ownership provisions that we are considering tonight perhaps more significant. There may be those who are less enthusiastic about bidding than they were. I do not know...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Environmental Studies (20 Dec 1989)

Mr Robert Maclennan: .... Do Scottish Ministers back the proposal that the EC Environmental Protection Agency should be located there or do they back the Prime Minister's proposal that the centre for the prediction of climatic change should be located there? Both would be welcome.