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Water Management — Question for Short Debate (3 Nov 2009)

Lord Smith of Finsbury: ...at a stroke, the percentage of rivers and watercourses in England and Wales qualifying as having good ecological status has fallen from 70 per cent to 26 per cent. That is not because the water has changed in any way, but because the rules have changed. However, the rules are there, the water framework directive is in place, and it is our duty in the Environment Agency to implement those...

Climate Change — Debate (29 Jan 2009)

Lord Smith of Finsbury: ...chairman of the Environment Agency, I have a passionate commitment to protecting and enhancing the environment on which we all depend. We all have to understand and recognise that the prospect of climate change is by far the greatest challenge that any of us faces environmentally over the coming years. I listened with great interest to the speech by the noble Lord, Lord Broers; I see that...

Sustainable Development (Rio Summit) (7 Feb 1994)

Mr Chris Smith: ...the cause of free trade to lead to the unnecessary degradation of the global environment. Perhaps the most disappointing part of the documents is that which deals with the prospect of catastrophic climatic change and the impact of carbon dioxide emissions leading up to and beyond the year 2000. Let us consider the steps leading up to the year 2000 first. The Secretary of State made a...

Orders of the Day — Energy Conservation Bill (4 Feb 1994)

Mr Chris Smith: ..., it would seem, only by the hon. Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman) at times—is that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere will in due course lead to catastrophic climate change unless we do something about our production of carbon dioxide. That is why the Government were right to sign up at the Rio summit two years ago to the target of reducing our...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Budget (24 Mar 1993)

Mr Chris Smith: ...to millions of people who will now have to struggle hard to heat their homes? Is it not true that, as Greenpeace pointed out, the Budget was far more about raising money than about tackling climate change? Are not the Government pretending to be green purely and simply because their finances are in the red?

Orders of the Day — Estimates Day: Coastal Zone Protection (10 Dec 1992)

Mr Chris Smith: ...considerable. A survey conducted in April this year by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds covering 126 estuaries around the United Kingdom coast found that there had been substantial changes since its equivalent survey in 1988. A total of 57 estuaries now face the threat of permanent damage compared with only 43 four years ago. The survey highlights the potential dangers to our...

Schedule 4: Environmental Action Programme (27 Oct 1992)

Mr Chris Smith: ...has been made in achieving those wise proposals on the environmental purposes of each European directorate. It would be good to hear an answer on that. My second query involves ozone depletion and climate change. On page 42 of the programme, there is a commitment to limit the use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons to a maximum of 5 per cent. of the 1990 level of chlorofluorocarbons by the year...

Orders of the Day — King's Cross Railways Bill (10 Dec 1990)

Mr Chris Smith: ...on the railway lands. It will be some time, inevitably, before conclusions on the nature of the railway lands development are reached. Meanwhile, the property market is uncertain. The economic climate is not good for large-scale developments. The principal partners in the proposed railway lands development are not as financially flush as they were when the proposals were first being...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill: Prohibition on Promoting Homosexuality by Teaching or by Publishing Material (15 Dec 1987)

Mr Chris Smith: I shall not give way to my hon. Friend. The second motive is a desire to change the climate so that to be gay or lesbian is to feel and to be treated as a second-class citizen. The climate has changed. There is more intolerance now than there was five or 10 years ago. The House cannot have failed to notice that last Saturday there was an arson attack on the offices of the Capital Gay...