Results 1-20 of 223 for climate change speaker:Michael Meacher

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Michael Meacher: The Liberal Democrat motion deals with climate change leadership, but I think that by any standards the Government's record in this area is pretty good. The UK is the first country in the world to set up rolling carbon budgets, and to have set a carbon emission reduction target of 80 per cent. by 2050. The Government are the first to have set up a prestigious and independent Climate Change...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Finance (8 Jun 2009)

Michael Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much has been spent from the public purse on the generation of energy from (a) oil, (b) gas, (c) coal, (d) nuclear sources and (e) renewable sources in each year since 1990.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (8 Jun 2009)

Michael Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what information his Department holds for benchmarking purposes on the proportion of electricity generated from renewable sources of energy in each EU member state in (a) 2008 and (b) 1999.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sellafield (2 Apr 2009)

Michael Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the level of production of the mixed-oxide fuel plant at Sellafield has been in each year of its operation; and what the net return of the plant was in each of those years.

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Heathrow (Third Runway) (28 Jan 2009) has video

Michael Meacher: ...have made for the expansion of Heathrow simply does not stack up. Moreover, the social and environmental arguments against a third runway—the serious worsening of noise, air pollution, climate change emissions and quality of life for the 2 million long-suffering residents of west London—are overwhelming in their own right. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was acutely...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Heathrow (Third Runway) (28 Jan 2009) has video

Michael Meacher: ...to limit aviation emissions in 2050 to no more than the level in 2005, when they were 37.5 million tonnes. That artfully conceals the fact that if the Government make the 80 per cent. reduction in climate-changing emissions to which they are committed, that level of emissions will be 30 per cent. of total UK emissions in 2050—and that is not acceptable.

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Heathrow (Third Runway) (28 Jan 2009) has video

Michael Meacher: ...brought to Britain by extra business travellers. In addition, in a video-conferencing age—to take on the point made by the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) about business practices changing in the economic downturn—the number of business flights that are absolutely essential to the British economy are, I suspect, comparatively few. No less than 87 per cent....

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions (25 Nov 2008)

Michael Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate his Department has made of the level of carbon dioxide emissions from the UK in each year since 1990, (a) broken down by sector and (b) in respect of (i) aviation and (ii) shipping.

Bill Presented: Heathrow (11 Nov 2008) has video

Michael Meacher: ...some calculations, only 40 years away; the increasing tightness of carbon budgets worldwide; and possibly—I realise that this is uncertain and that it could be challenged—the gradually changing attitude of many consumers to air travel. For all of those reasons, I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. The second issue is the local environmental impact on 2 million people in...

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

Michael Meacher: ...and baselines; they are complex and can easily be manipulated, and there is clear evidence of considerable abuse. The second argument, which is the clincher, is that we will succeed in stopping climate change, or the worst effects of it, given the stage we have now reached, only if we in the west, who are primarily responsible for it as a result of our industrialisation over the past two...

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

Michael Meacher: ...one of the caveats that led a United Nations human development report issued in the last year to say: "If the rest of the developed world followed the pathway envisaged in the United Kingdom's Climate Change Bill, dangerous climate change would be inevitable." That is a very sobering reminder. This is a good Bill, but it is certainly not ambitious enough. That sober conclusion is given...

Deferred Division: Heathrow (2 Apr 2008) has video

Michael Meacher: ...aspects of the debate. The first is the evidential basis for the forecast of air quality and noise impacts, and the second is the status and weight—or perhaps the lack of them—given to climate change considerations in the final judgment. On the first issue, the conclusion reached—that one can bolt a new airport the size of Gatwick on to Heathrow without any adverse...

Deferred Division: Heathrow (2 Apr 2008) has video

Michael Meacher: ...time. The second fundamental issue that I wish to address—in a minute and a half, or, actually, even less— [Interruption.] I wanted to talk about the relationship between aviation and climate change, but I shall save that for a future occasion.

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (18 Mar 2008)

Michael Meacher: ...by a whistleblower as having secreted huge sums of money in another tax haven, namely Liechtenstein. Germany is now demanding cross-national action to force countries with banking secrecy to share information. That is a favourable climate for the UK to participate and take the lead. Since there is considerable evidence that super-rich British people also use these and other tax...

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 7): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 8) — [8th Allotted Day] (27 Feb 2008)

Michael Meacher: ...that Europe is, as the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) said, absolutely central to our purpose. It is ridiculous to have any other view. The problem for the EU in regard to climate change is not that there is a need for a new constitution or amended treaties—although I welcome the warm words, albeit only six of them, in the Lisbon treaty, because they are worth...

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 7): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 8) — [8th Allotted Day] (27 Feb 2008)

Michael Meacher: We should not underestimate President Sarkozy's commitment in respect of climate change. In fact, he has suggested the extraordinarily radical policy that tariff constraints should be used against countries—most notably the US, of course—that refuse to admit the need to tackle climate change. As far as I know, that policy is far more radical than anything adopted by any other...

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 7): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 8) — [8th Allotted Day] (27 Feb 2008)

Michael Meacher: ...2 of the ETS may well not lead to any reductions in emissions in the UK at all. I think I am right in saying that the Government agree with that forecast. The ETS is the linchpin of the EU's anti-climate change policy. For all its good intentions, I fear that it has been distorted into something of a massive scam. In phase 1, it is believed that the power generators made more than £2...

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 7): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 8) — [8th Allotted Day] (27 Feb 2008)

Michael Meacher: ...of keeping the concentration of carbon greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to 550 parts per million, as opposed to 450 ppm, could still lead to a likelihood of between 50 and 90 per cent. that climate change could run out of control. The situation is exceedingly dangerous, but I do not believe that any country in the world has really begun to take on the sort of drastic policies that are...

Orders of the Day: Energy Bill (22 Jan 2008)

Michael Meacher: ...case from that made by Government and Opposition Front Benchers. In the last analysis, the Government's case for nuclear was that it was needed to keep the lights on and to help Britain to meet its climate change commitments. The Government also said that that could be achieved without any public subsidies—that was repeated today—and that the waste problem would be perfectly...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Education: Climate Change (19 Nov 2007)

Michael Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will provide grants for the recruitment of external experts to teach climate change science and sustainability in primary and secondary schools.