Results 1-20 of 24 for climate change speaker:Richard Ottaway

Energy and Climate Change: Economic Situation (5 Nov 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: Is the Minister aware that the Committee on Climate Change reported that the reductions in carbon emissions in the United Kingdom over the last four years amounted to a very modest 0.5 per cent. per annum? Does she agree that if she is to have credibility at any international summit on this issue, she will need a better track record than that?

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Emissions (5 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made in reducing the UK's carbon dioxide emissions over the last five years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change Bill (25 Oct 2007) has video

Richard Ottaway: How can the Secretary of State speak so freely about climate change when by any standard or test the Government are consistently failing their own targets?

Orders of the Day: Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill (12 May 2006)

Richard Ottaway: ...for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) and wish him well in his speedy recovery. I rise to support the Bill. It is commendable and long overdue, and most people who believe in the need to address climate change can support it. I welcome the language used by the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the "Today" programme this morning. He said that at the heart...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (17 Mar 2005)

Mr Richard Ottaway: What recent discussions she has had with the Department of Trade and Industry on combating climate change.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (17 Mar 2005)

Mr Richard Ottaway: But the Minister is not making much progress. We can all agree that combating climate change is essential, but he has stewardship of the situation. After eight years in government, when will he come close to even matching the record of the last Conservative Government, and when will he stop the spin and cascade of failed targets that seem to be the hallmark of his policy?

Climate Change and the Environment (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Ottaway: In attacking the Conservatives on the climate change levy, is the right hon. Lady not missing an important point about carbon trading, which I am glad that my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) has confirmed we are supporting? With carbon trading, the climate change levy becomes ineffective. The climate is not changed; it is not a levy but a tax.

Climate Change and the Environment (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...is increasing by around 250,000 a day and the main growth is in India and China, but they are not using modern renewable technologies. Does he acknowledge that population growth is a key factor in climate change?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Richard Ottaway: What recent research she has commissioned on the impact that climate change is having on the environment.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Richard Ottaway: The Government are rightly making climate change a priority of their G8 presidency next year, if they win the election. Given that we are missing our targets on renewables, combined heat and power output is down, the energy efficiency commitment has been downgraded and, worst of all, carbon emissions are rising, should the Minister not put his own house in order before he starts to lecture...

Wind Farms (25 Oct 2004)

Mr Richard Ottaway: I welcome the fact that—contrary to what the Liberal Democrats say—the motion embraces the issues of climate change. We on this planet face two challenges. The first is that we are using up our resources faster than we can replace them. The Government have a duty to protect those resources, but that is not easy when facing relentless demands from a restless society. The second...

Wind Farms (25 Oct 2004)

Mr Richard Ottaway: My hon. Friend gives an answer to the question that I posed about whether democracy can respond to climate change. As he says, in order to achieve that, we need to build consensus. I say to the Liberal Democrats, "Stop playing games with the environment; it is a very serious subject indeed." They should work with people, instead of engaging in short-term posturing, which is what they do. If...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Thames Barrier (5 Jul 2004)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...Rural Affairs pursuant to her answer of 8 June 2004, Official Report, column 291W, on the Thames Barrier, what assessment she has made of the Chief Scientific Adviser's statement of 31 March that climate change is a reason for increased use of the Thames Barrier.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Wind Turbines (20 May 2004)

Mr Richard Ottaway: The Minister and the DTI are swamping the country with wind farms in pursuit of his failing policy on climate change. Is he aware that CO 2 emissions went up last year? Instead of putting all his eggs into the wind farm basket, he should focus on wave and tidal power, solar energy, photovoltaics, biomass and hydrogen, and introduce a proper diversified renewables policy that might actually...

International Affairs (27 Nov 2003)

Mr Richard Ottaway: I beg the hon. Gentleman's pardon, but he changes Departments so often. Given that it now seems to be common knowledge that terrorists are entering Iraq through Syria and Iran, I hope that the Minister who winds up the debate will tell us what is being done about that. Will we just acquiesce, or will we join the United States in sanctions against Syria? We cannot sit back and do nothing. The...

Energy: Towards 2050 (20 Jun 2002)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...fuel protests; the collapse of wholesale electricity prices; dwindling North sea gas supplies; and, as has just been amply demonstrated, growing political pressure to address the issue of climate change. That affects our views on the future of nuclear power and the nuclear option. We all share the aims and objectives of reducing carbon emissions, although I think that the Government will...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (12 Mar 2001)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...is trumpeting his tax cuts, as in most of his Budgets, reading the small print reveals much more. The rises in national insurance contributions mean that 2.5 million taxpayers will be worse off; the climate change levy will start to clobber business; the increase in company car tax continues the right hon. Gentleman's relentless assault on the motorist; and the aggregates tax will hit the...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Further Provisions About Share Options (19 Jul 2000)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...the country that there has been a raid on their pensions that will cost them and their employers substantial sums. The Government have introduced the windfall tax on the utilities, corporation tax changes and the climate change levy, which we have discussed. The infamous IR35, which is having a colossal impact on the IT sector and the way it behaves, is not stimulating business in the...

Opposition Day: UK Manufacturing and Enterprise (16 May 2000)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...other day the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce said: The rhetoric is good, but the Government seems to be unaware that its actions seem to be working against creating a better climate for business. We have a Government who are clearly not at ease with themselves. They talk the language of a new economy, but their instincts lie in the other direction. A commentator...

Orders of the Day — Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Bill [Lords] (5 May 1998)

Mr Richard Ottaway: .... In truth, I have no idea whatever whether the Bill will work and whether it will achieve the results that we hope it might. What makes the Bill worth while is that it will probably result in a change of climate of opinion on the late payment of debt. I do not envisage a flood of litigants going to court when the Bill becomes law. The Bill will make a difference in the way in which...