Results 1-20 of 398 for climate change speaker:Gregory Barker

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: International Co-operation (11 Nov 2009)

Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for which aspects of the Government's contribution to commitments agreed at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meetings in Istanbul in 2009 his Department will be responsible.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Gregory Barker: ...Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) reminded us, it was 20 years ago this week that Margaret Thatcher first told the United Nations that we needed concerted global action to tackle climate change. While the science has become ever more compelling, the reality is that, particularly since Kyoto, global leaders have failed to rise to the challenge of decarbonising our...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Gregory Barker: ...me make a serious point, however. I know that my right hon. Friend is very genuine in his beliefs, but if we were talking about the probability of our children or grandchildren suffering not from climate change, but from cancer, would he indulge in the same rhetoric about probabilities and ratios? If we were talking about a 60 per cent. probability of our kids contracting cancer in the...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Gregory Barker: ...ourselves on the back for agreeing to stretching, long-term targets, while in the meantime the Chinese are taking practical action in the near-term that will be more meaningful in fighting man-made climate change. The hon. Member for Llanelli (Nia Griffith) spoke about deforestation and made some excellent points on micro-hydropower with which I fully agree. The hon. Member for Angus...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Gregory Barker: As my hon. Friends point out, that was certainly no criticism of the climate change agenda. As we have repeatedly pointed out, Europe is ideally suited to deal with climate change. We want to work closely with our European partners on climate change and not on other issues. The hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) held the House spellbound—at least, there was not a great...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: EU Action (4 Nov 2009)

Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his policy is on the establishment of a European Commission Directorate General for energy and climate change; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: G20: Greater London (2 Nov 2009)

Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what commitments the Government entered into during the G20 London summit on energy, climate change and related matters.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: G8: Italy (2 Nov 2009)

Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for which aspects of the Government's contribution to commitments agreed at the G8 Summit in L'Aquila his Department is responsible.

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Biofuels (27 Oct 2009)

Gregory Barker: ...seems to be a bit confused about who he is. Let me tell him who he is: he is the Minister in the Department that should have policy oversight. Is he telling us that the Department of Energy and Climate Change and his ministerial team have ceded responsibility for strategic direction, policy and decision making to unelected quangocrats? That does not come as a great surprise because that is...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Biofuels (27 Oct 2009)

Gregory Barker: ...this rather fumbling performance is due to a commitment to the environment rather than just my ineptitude. We hear increasingly frequently from politicians and the media about the opportunities of climate change, the benefits from a shift to a low-carbon economy that will come to investors, innovators and entrepreneurs alike and the dangers of climate change if we do not act decisively. It...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Monitor Group: Meetings (26 Oct 2009)

Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has had discussions with the Monitor Group.

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

Gregory Barker: I begin by congratulating the Liberals on calling this Opposition day debate. It is not a catch-all debate on climate change, and because we are relatively short of time, I shall try to keep my remarks brief. The agenda is huge and we will not have time to cover all of it, so I shall focus on the 10:10 campaign. It is rapidly becoming clear that it is nearly impossible to overstate the...

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

Gregory Barker: There often seems to be a healthy consensus in UK politics on climate change, even if we do not talk enough about adaptation. Over the past few years we in the UK are fortunate enough to have enjoyed a good consensus, by and large, about the challenges and threats posed. We worked constructively with the Government across party on the Climate Change Act 2008. It is to the Government's credit...

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

Gregory Barker: ...sum up the situation? There is a huge gap between ambition, practical vision and delivery on the ground, and there is a woeful mismatch between the debate in the UK about the political response to climate change so far and what has happened in the past. The bottom line is that the Conservatives have had enough of well-meaning but unambitious small-scale tinkering with the energy markets;...