Results 1-20 of 220 for climate change speaker:Phil Woolas

Written Answers — Home Department: Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Pay (16 Jun 2009)

Phil Woolas: The Civil Nuclear Constabulary falls under the responsibilities of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

Written Answers — Home Department: Climate Change (15 Jun 2009)

Phil Woolas: All Departments are actively involved in the cross-Government Adapting to Climate Change Programme, which aims to help society adapt to climate change. The role of the programme is to develop and provide a comprehensive evidence base including adaptation tools, to raise awareness of the need to adapt, to measure success and to work across Government at all levels to embed adaptation. Further...

Written Answers — Home Department: Climate Change (15 Jun 2009)

Phil Woolas: It is not currently possible to provide estimates of the potential costs and savings over the next three years. It has, however, been shown in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change that timely and well-targeted climate adaptation measures will yield benefits in excess of their costs. The main rationale for investment to address climate risk will be to reduce the UK's...

Written Answers — Home Department: Climate Change (15 Dec 2008)

Phil Woolas: The Home Office participates in the Defra-led Climate Change Adaptation Programme Board. The main climate change-related issues for the Home Office are developing an estate that is resilient to climate change and ensuring that the police are prepared for the impact of a changing climate, in terms of business continuity and crime prevention and detection. The Home Office commitments and...

Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (5 Nov 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...8212;would be hired by the farmers to get their hay in. Our local rural economy was absolutely dependent on that practice. I am sure that others, later in life, have gone to perhaps more attractive climates to pick fruit; I think that it was grapes in the case of the hon. Gentleman. So, as I say, I have some personal understanding of this sector, but of course nothing like his experience....

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration: Climate Change (28 Oct 2008)

Phil Woolas: holding answer 11 September 2008 The Department has been working to identify potential areas of risk it may face as a result of climate change, which can be found here: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/adapt/prog ramme/home-office.htm. The global impact of climate change could affect the levels and patterns of migration to and from the UK, but the links are complex and there...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions (29 Sep 2008)

Phil Woolas: holding answer 17 September 2008 The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gives a best estimate of around 6 billion tonnes for the annual global carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use change (which is dominated by deforestation). Using data from the IEA and the IPCC (including an estimate of the emissions from industrial processes such as...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon (15 Sep 2008)

Phil Woolas: The Shadow Price of Carbon (SPC) set out on page 20 of the Climate Change Bill: Final Impact Assessment is taken from DEFRA's cross-departmental guidance (published December 2007) on how to value the impact of Government policies on greenhouse gas emissions. The SPC captures the costs of climate change that are associated with each additional tonne of emissions, and is consistent with the...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: EU Emissions Trading Scheme (15 Sep 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...certainty for business about the UK's previously published National Allocation Plan and not seek to reopen allocation issues consulted on and determined in 2006. As part of the Government's climate change strategy, we are aiming in the longer term to move towards more auctioning of allowances, and Budget 2008 announced the Government's intention to auction 100 per cent. of all allowances...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions: Developing Countries (1 Sep 2008)

Phil Woolas: holding answer 17 July 2008 We are currently consulting on changes to the European Union emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) in light of the European Commission's proposed climate and energy package. Credits from reforestation and afforestation projects require a robust monitoring system, an understanding of the potential impact on the EU ETS allowance price, and assurance that non-permanent...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change: Research (1 Sep 2008)

Phil Woolas: Government expenditure on research which relates to climate change in 2006-07 (latest available figure) was approximately £139 million. The majority of this amount was provided through the research councils. DEFRA's total expenditure on climate change research (including projects of a cross-cutting nature which are of relevance to climate change) over the last three years was £79.4...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions (22 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: holding answer 17 July 2008 The Stern Review analysed, from a global perspective, the question of whether or not to take global action to avoid dangerous climate change. The methodological approach adopted by the Stern Review in answering this question has implications for the appropriate discount rate to use in cost-benefit analysis under certain specific circumstances, and more generally...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions: Farms (22 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...initiatives which can help to reduce GHGs from farming, including the Environmental Stewardship schemes and various grant schemes. DEFRA has a programme of research dedicated to agriculture and climate change issues which includes research into reducing emissions from livestock, manure and fertiliser application, as well as measures to protect carbon stores in soils. We are working closely...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (21 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: I am writing to the noble Lord Turner in the terms I set out in the Climate Change Bill Committee of 3 July 2008, Official Report, column 282 and will place a copy of this letter in the Libraries of the House.

Written Answers — Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Carbon Emissions: Standards (21 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...to reply. The Government remains committed to meeting its CO2 emissions reduction targets, and is confident that the correct strategies and mechanisms are in place to achieve this, including the UK Climate Change Programme, tighter building regulations and the EU emissions trading scheme.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Fertilisers: Seas and Oceans (16 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...at the ninth conference of the parties of the UN convention on biological diversity. DEFRA currently has no plans to fund research into this technology. However, we do not want to rule out possible climate mitigation options at an early stage, and would wish to maintain the option of appropriate and strictly controlled scientific research where it could provide further information to help...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions (14 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: holding answer 10 July 2008 The UK Government are happy with the decision taken at the UN climate change conference in Bali in December to begin negotiations on a global climate change agreement to reduce emissions. This will be agreed in Copenhagen in 2009. A key part of the negotiation process will be to look at how all countries, developed and developing, could reduce emissions of...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions (10 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...in the Stern review. Lord Stern explained how conventional discounting methodology leads to the use of lower discount rates when assessing whether or not to take global action to avoid dangerous climate change. Subsequent to the publication of the Stern review, DEFRA officials attended an official-level meeting with Lord Stern to discuss the implications of the Stern review for broader...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change: EU Action (9 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: holding answer 8 July 2008 We welcome the conference on the EU and its Overseas Entities—Strategies to Counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss, which is being convened in Reunion as an official event under the French presidency of the European Union. The United Kingdom is being represented at this important meeting by an official from the Department's international biodiversity...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: New Clause 19 (8 Jul 2008)

Phil Woolas: ...sector departments, including central Government Departments, is voluntary, as part of the devolutionary move that the Government have made. Within that are a few indicators, two specifically on climate change. The first indicator is for the local authority to address its own emissions, activities, buildings, social services, transport and so on. The second more important indicator is for...