Results 1-20 of 24 for climate change speaker:Michael Moore

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: United Nations Adaptation Fund (2 Nov 2009)

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what funding the Government provided to the United Nations Adaptation Fund in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009; what funding is planned for 2010; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change (12 Oct 2009)

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what methodology his Department used to (a) establish that adopting its proposals to the UN framework on climate change would restrict temperature rises to below two degrees Celsius and (b) calculate that expenditure of US$100 billion per annum was required to tackle climate change globally.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: Conferences (12 Oct 2009)

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether he plans to lead the Government's delegation to the UN Framework Conference on Climate Change negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009; what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on steps to secure an international agreement at the Copenhagen conference; and if he will make a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Building our Common Future (6 Jul 2009)

Michael Moore: ...provide official development assistance, as the White Paper recognises. However, in a world that is increasingly globalised and interdependent, and where the consequences of poverty, conflict and climate change affect all of us, there is also a clear national interest in supporting developing countries as they tackle challenges of an unprecedented nature and scale. We on the Liberal...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: International Cooperation (3 Mar 2009)

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he plans to meet (a) the US Energy Secretary and (b) the White House Energy Co-ordinator to discuss (i) the outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, (ii) a funding mechanism for the UN Climate Change Adaptation Fund and (iii) the transfer of carbon-neutral and clean technologies to the developing world; and if he...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: International Cooperation (27 Feb 2009)

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) what proposals his Department has put forward for an international financing mechanism to fund the UN Climate Change Adaptation Fund; what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer on these proposals; and if he will make a statement; (2) what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: UN Conference (Poznan) (17 Dec 2008) has video

Michael Moore: Oxfam has said that the Poznan conference "exposed a shameful lack of progress" on climate change. It is not entirely clear how much irony was intended by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in yesterday's written statement, in which he cited as the main achievement of the conference an agreement "to accelerate the pace of negotiations".—[ Official Report, 16 December...

Written Answers — International Development: Climate Change: Conferences (24 Nov 2008)

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his Department's objectives are for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan; what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment and Climate Change about the conference; whether a Minister from his Department will be part of the Government's delegation; and if he will make a statement.

Safe Water (Developing Countries) (19 Mar 2008)

Michael Moore: ...to study or to lift themselves out of poverty. We must therefore see the issue in the round. At the same time that we are trying to tackle these issues, we are also fighting the huge problem of climate change. As we try to mitigate the worst effects of bad sanitation and poor access to water, global warming is making the problem more acute—not just in the obvious sense that it is...

Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 5): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 6) — [6th Allotted Day] (25 Feb 2008)

Michael Moore: ...poor countries in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, many of which were once part of Europe's empires, but to establish international structures to tackle the causes of poverty, be they conflict, climate catastrophe or, as the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) suggested, corruption. To a large extent European countries, acting alone or together through the European Union, have accepted those...

Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 5): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 6) — [6th Allotted Day] (25 Feb 2008)

Michael Moore: ...to ensure that environmental sustainability is a key millennium development goal. The agreement reached at Bali has the potential to address many of the developing world's particular concerns about climate change, and we must all move quickly on technology transfer and adaptation. The EU must also ensure that Bali is only the beginning of a more comprehensive process. As the main player in...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007) has video

Michael Moore: ...the need to focus, or quibble with the three that he chose. We can all agree that tackling the causes and consequences of extremism, radicalism and conflict, establishing sustainable responses to climate change and building an effective European Union are central to Britain's role in the world. We can also agree that the trends in globalisation that present those challenges to us are...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

Michael Moore: ...nearly 500 million people. Over the last five decades Europe has learnt to work as a whole, and to tackle problems that are beyond the control of individual countries. In an era of globalisation, climate change and international terrorism, the requirement for countries to work together has not dimmed. Britain has been a beneficiary of that co-operation, not least in dealing with terrorism....

Church Commissioners: European Council (18 Dec 2006)

Michael Moore: ...the most spectacular of summits, but in its own way, I suppose that that may be regarded as a triumph. In this country, there will be a broad welcome of the intention to focus early attention on climate change, and to consider ways of achieving greater co-operation and co-ordination on migration. There is also support on both sides of the House for the reaffirmation of the enlargement...

Delegated Legislation: European Affairs (6 Dec 2006)

Michael Moore: ...the rest of us in recent months. On that occasion, however, the differences were not about splits—at least not on the surface. The Foreign Secretary's speech dwelt on the challenges of climate change and energy security, the increasing complexity of Europe's external relations and the importance of common responses to the threats posed by international terrorism, and touched on the...

Delegated Legislation: European Affairs (6 Dec 2006)

Michael Moore: ...refocusing on the economic weaknesses that the Lisbon and Hampton Court agendas have sought to address, and, in the wake of the stark warnings in the Stern report, on tackling the urgent issue of climate change. Whatever the disappointments of the past six months, we should not blame the Finnish presidency, which for the most part has been left to deal with more immediate, although none...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Michael Moore: .... The Foreign Secretary and the shadow Foreign Secretary set out the vast range of issues that require urgent attention in the world today, not least the challenges of nuclear proliferation and climate change, which the Foreign Secretary was right to say is as much a matter of foreign policy as of anything else. As other Members have done, I want to pay tribute to our armed forces, which...

United Nations Reform (18 Apr 2006)

Michael Moore: ...of security, development and human rights to the reform programme that is now under way, following the world summit last autumn. He emphasised that reforms had to be underpinned by radical change in the organisation and in the management of the UN itself—a strong theme in our debate this morning. The oil-for-food scandal undoubtedly rocked the UN, and it lapped uncomfortably close to...