Results 1-8 of 8 for climate change speaker:Baroness Tonge
- Refugees — Question (13 Jul 2009)
Baroness Tonge: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the number of refugees resulting from conflicts and climate change.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Iraq: Food Security (1 Apr 2008)
Baroness Tonge: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their response to the recent report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, which claims that food security could be adversely affected by climate change, leading to social unrest in Iraq.
- Climate Change: South-east Africa (10 Mar 2008)
Baroness Tonge: My Lords, the Minister mentioned the millennium development goals. Does she agree that overpopulation as well as climate change will be a huge factor in whether we reach them? Will she therefore ensure that reproductive health supplies and contraceptives are made available to those women in south-east Africa and all over the developing world who truly want to limit their family size, as there...
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (19 Nov 2007)
Baroness Tonge: ...for the Committee stage. I confess to sometimes feeling a little anxious about the treatment of infertility, having spent the past 10 years studying the effects on world resources, food supply and climate change of the population explosion all over the planet. At the same time, we are helping desperate, childless people to have babies. We must spend much more on making contraception...
- Humanitarian Crisis (Southern Africa) (26 Jun 2003)
Dr Jenny Tonge: ...a greater ability to make their voice heard. The other issue that interested me was varying weather patterns—another factor in the current crisis in southern Africa. It would appear that the climate is getting more unpredictable. Many of the current food shortages are due to droughts in various parts of Africa, which have not been contained as they used to be. I know that there are...
- Humanitarian Crisis (Southern Africa) (26 Jun 2003)
Dr Jenny Tonge: I thank the hon. Gentleman for that correction. Being the director of an anti-corruption bureau in Malawi must be quite fun. Food production in southern Africa is not just affected by climate change. Strangely, we have not said much about Zimbabwe this afternoon. Zimbabwe was a net exporter of food—[Interruption.] The hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) has indicated that she will...
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development (5 Dec 2002)
Dr Jenny Tonge: ...about our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren, we have to do something about this world. The planet is in a terrible state. A key statistic for me was that a 1° rise in temperature due to climate change and global warming means a 10 per cent. drop in yield of the world's food harvest. That is terrifying when one thinks of all the other factors. In the long term, it means fewer...
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development (5 Dec 2002)
Dr Jenny Tonge: ...That is not the problem in any case. The real question is why the WFP has not had the response that it had for previous impending famines. The reason should be in this debate. We are talking about climate change and decreases in world food supplies. Will the hon. Gentleman address those subjects a little?