Results 1-20 of 78 for climate change speaker:Alan Simpson

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

Alan Simpson: ...capital transactions? At a time when nation states are manifestly failing to meet the funding obligations that they have made on the eradication of poverty, the delivery of food security and climate change mitigation, will he go back to the international community and again make the case that we should tackle speculators, if we are to deliver the programmes that will save the planet and...

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

Alan Simpson: ...important part of the imperative in signing up to the campaign has not come from any argument in this House; it came in September from Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He gave us all the starkest warning—the shot across the bows—when he said that it would not be enough for the world to aim to restrict carbon emissions to 450 ppm. If...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Low Carbon Buildings Programme: Finance (16 Jul 2009)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the funding provided for phases one and two of the low carbon buildings programme in advance of receipts from (a) feed-in tariffs and (b) a renewable heat incentive under the provisions of the Energy Act 2008.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Prices (15 Jun 2009)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the effect on the average annual household energy bill of the operation of (a) the climate change levy and climate change agreements, (b) the renewables obligation, (c) the energy efficiency commitment/carbon emissions reduction target, (d) the EU emissions trading scheme and (e) other environmental...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (8 May 2009)

Alan Simpson: ...one person he failed to mention was himself. It is important that there is, across the House, a recognition of the role that he has played not only in bringing this Bill before us but in keeping climate change and the shift into renewable and sustainable energy systems on the political agenda, especially when many Members in all parts of the House were uninterested in it for long periods...

Members' Allowances (30 Apr 2009) has video

Alan Simpson: ...did not vote to take us into an illegal war on Iraq; it would not vote to renew Trident; it did not introduce tuition fees; it would not privatise the Post Office, and it would not turn its back on climate change. Parliament addresses those issues, and to defend Parliament we, as parliamentarians, must go beyond the strictures of today's limited debate and understand that our failure to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the law (22 Apr 2009)

Alan Simpson: ...denunciation, but I ask them to hold fire because there is a gap between that appointment and the fact of not having a single meeting with officials at the Treasury or the Department of Energy and Climate Change to drive that through. All my experience suggests that there is an intellectual inertia at the core of our civil service that blocks the introduction of radical and dramatic...

Council Tax Rebate: The Economy (31 Mar 2009) has video

Alan Simpson: .... To get out of that mess—square the circle—the answer was burgeoning credit. Unfortunately, that was sold to us as a solution that would deliver everlasting growth. Public debt was changed into private debt—it went off balance sheet. Somehow we allowed ourselves to be mesmerised and think that this would give the world a way out of the mess we were creating. Had we not...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Prices (31 Mar 2009)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) which energy suppliers have adopted Ofgem's voluntary guidelines to offer a social tariff as favourable as their lowest priced tariff offered to customers in that area; (2) how many households are on each of the (a) discounted tariffs and (b) social tariffs recognised by Ofgem offered by each supplier; and what proportion of...

Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]: Unemployment (10 Mar 2009) has video

Alan Simpson: ...and in the jobs we seek to deliver in order to get us out of the mess we are in and into a different future. The second report that should frame the terms of reference of this debate is "A Climate for Recovery", which was produced by HSBC. It is an assessment of the intervention packages pursued by different Governments around the world in trying to address the recession into which we have...

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

Alan Simpson: ..., but that is what we are immersed in at the moment. When we come out of it, in whatever way we do so, that energy crisis will be waiting for us. The scientists at the intergovernmental panel on climate change revise their climate change predictions forward every time they meet, in such a way that we now have a window of opportunity of probably only six to eight years in which to make...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: Public Appointments (17 Nov 2008)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress the Government have made in appointing a new Chair of the Committee on Climate Change; and when he expects an appointment to be announced.

Orders of the Day: 'Part 6 (4 Nov 2008) has video

Alan Simpson: The Conservative party gave its support to the Climate Change Bill, which spelt out that the direction of change would specifically include the setting of annual carbon budgets, and that at some stage they would have to be translated into sectoral and company targets, so will the hon. Gentleman be kind enough to explain to the House the role that Conservative Members expect trade unions in a...

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

Alan Simpson: This, internationally, is a groundbreaking Bill, which if we give it teeth, could also be an Earth-changing one. I am pleased that tonight's debate has not turned into a parliamentary love-in to welcome the Bill, because the purpose of Second Reading must be for us to set out the basis on which to have serious arguments among ourselves about the deficiencies of the Bill. Those arguments may...

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

Alan Simpson: ...who believe that this problem is to do with solar cycles rather than carbon emissions, the reality is that the world faces precisely the same crises? That carbon can act as a surrogate for huge changes in the way we live that will not otherwise address the shortages of water, insecurities of energy and the turbulence of climate change that we will have to manage.

Orders of the Day: New Clause 4 — Tariffs for renewable energy (30 Apr 2008) has video

Alan Simpson: ...production of biogas. We are talking about a timetable, more than anything else. Let me explain the significance of the timetable. Last December, our Government sent Ministers to the conference on climate change in Bali. The scientists reporting to that conference said to global leaders that in the next five to eight years we will determine the fate of the generations that will follow. It...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 4 — Tariffs for renewable energy (30 Apr 2008) has video

Alan Simpson: The Minister for Energy just made the point that we want to empower citizens to take a more active lead in addressing the challenge of climate change and the shift to renewable energy systems. In many ways, new clause 4 specifically addresses that challenge. Internationally, it is arguable that the mechanism it deals with is by far the most effective one for engaging citizens and delivering a...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 4 — Tariffs for renewable energy (30 Apr 2008) has video

Alan Simpson: ...costs last year show that they contribute approximately €35—about £25—to the average German household energy bill. If we total the current UK intervention measures—the climate change levy, climate change agreements, the renewables obligation, the carbon emissions reduction target, contributions from the energy industry and the emissions trading...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (17 Mar 2008)

Alan Simpson: ...nice to be able to do so on a day on which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is present. He is very kind in putting up with being pestered by me on climate change issues. I hope he will forgive me if I add to that today, and pester him as though he were Chancellor for the day. I do not think it sufficient for us to hold the Government to...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (17 Mar 2008)

Alan Simpson: ...to the oil industry's calculations, that will hit us by 2015. Furthermore, over the weekend scientists told us that glaciers were melting faster than even they predicted. The challenges of climate change, peak oil and economic meltdown redefine the parameters within which national Governments must construct their budgets. I think that it is time for us to be bold, and say that it is...