Results 1-10 of 10 for climate change speaker:Andy Reed

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

Andy Reed: My hon. Friend knows that there is a double whammy for developing countries in the current economic crisis: not only are the poorest being hit by the state of the economy, but climate change affects them first. We hear that €100 billion is being made available for mitigation and working with developing countries, but can the Minister give an assurance that that sum will actually be...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: East Africa (21 Oct 2009) has video

Andy Reed: ...that even the weeds are not growing in some areas. This is a long-term problem, not just a short-term one. Will the Minister describe the specific steps that he is taking to address the long-term climate change issues affecting the region, and Ethiopia in particular, as well as the immediate food programmes that are so desperately needed?

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

Andy Reed: Although I do not completely share the analysis of the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) on climate change, I agree that it is important that we play a leading role in ensuring that the developing countries that receive Department for International Development funding see it targeted at sustainable development. Does the Minister agree that programmes such as using...

Oral Answers to Questions — Innovation, Universities and Skills: Topical Questions (16 Oct 2008) has video

Andy Reed: ...;does the Minister recognise that Loughborough is at the heart of the energy technology institutes? This will bring jobs to the UK but also meet many of the demands that we shall hear later in the climate change statement. Will he ensure that the private-public sector partnership, which will spend more than £1 billion on research in this area is not lost in the current climate, in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Climate Change (Economic Impact) (24 Jan 2008)

Andy Reed: ...who will be affected most and first. In the Minister's discussions, both at UK and European level and with China and India, will he ensure that any financial measures that are taken to impact on climate change in the UK are reciprocated in places across the globe? Given the growth in the economies of China and India, they will increasingly be at the forefront of having to tackle climate...

[Mr. Mike Hancock in the Chair] — Participation in Sport (17 Jan 2008)

Andy Reed: ...It is about setting up the structures, ensuring that the investment is there and talking about coaches, facilities and volunteers. An important area, in which we need to do a lot more research, is changing social behaviour. A big time factor is involved in helping individuals to change their entire behaviour and their work-life balance, as opposed to just setting up the structures. Setting...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Carbon Capture and Storage (7 Jun 2007)

Andy Reed: ...technologies and the various institutes that are being set up across the country will be with us as soon as possible? As we learned from the G8 this weekend, if we are to have a positive impact on climate change, we need to act within days and months, rather than years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Climate Security (1 May 2007)

Andy Reed: Is it not the case that the countries that will be most affected by the first changes in climate will be the poorest, such as Bangladesh, where large parts of the country will disappear? What assessment has my right hon. Friend made of the possibility of some 100 million refugees pouring out of some of the poorest countries and the security implications not only for the surrounding countries,...

Sporting Legacy (2012 Olympic Games) (6 Feb 2007)

Andy Reed: ...still have a 70 per cent. drop-off rate at 16. One of the reasons for that is that we are clearly not yet doing enough to support people when they want to move out into the community. Their lives change and they drift away from the school sport environment and so it is vital that we strengthen the work that we are doing, which is already fairly good, on the school and club link. It is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (18 May 2006)

Andy Reed: ...is clear that whatever we do will have minimal effect. Will he ensure that what comes out of this is a genuine commitment on the part of those other countries to make their contribution to tackling climate change? Otherwise, we will all be struggling with this concept, and the poorest in the world will feel the consequences first.