Results 1-11 of 11 for climate change speaker:David Cairns

Written Answers — Scotland: Energy Demand (4 Jun 2008)

David Cairns: ...on a range of issues. The Energy Bill, which will update and strengthen the legislative framework so that it is appropriate for today's energy market and fit for the challenges we face on climate change and security of supply.

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Electricity Generation (5 Mar 2008) has video

David Cairns: ...that DBERR is dragging its heels. We have ensured the correct levels of subsidy at the correct time in the development of technology. Because we have international targets to meet and the threat of climate change is real, those have been designed predominantly to meet the needs of onshore wind technology. However, the next generation of tidal and wave power will have a part to play and the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Electricity Generation (28 Nov 2007) has video

David Cairns: ...firth, as I saw for myself not once but twice during the past few months. Here at Westminster, the Government are advancing on three fronts at once with the Planning Bill, an energy Bill and the Climate Change Bill to ensure that we can supply the energy that our country needs without wrecking the planet in the process. Many planning issues are the responsibility of the Scottish Executive....

Written Answers — Scotland: Energy Supply (5 Jul 2007)

David Cairns: ...matter with the First Minister. The Government's Energy White Paper, published in May this year, sets out how we will approach ensuring secure, clean and affordable energy supplies while tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Many of the policies in the White Paper apply to the UK as a whole, although some key areas, such as planning consent for new power stations,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Climate Change Bill (8 May 2007)

David Cairns: The draft climate change Bill is out for consultation on a UK-wide basis. It has not yet been determined how the functions of the Bill would be performed. The UK Government and all the devolved Administrations are committed to working in partnership to combat climate change.

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Climate Change Bill (8 May 2007)

David Cairns: Clearly, various devolved responsibilities are involved in promoting renewables and in the work across a range of sectors to promote climate change measures. It is self-evident that global warming can be tackled only by nations working together, irrespective of national or international borders. It is therefore incumbent on all nations to do everything that they can to tackle climate change....

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Climate Change (28 Feb 2006)

David Cairns: ...cheek to talk about people running away from tough decisions when the Conservatives have called for a moratorium on the development of wind farms, which make a significant contribution to tackling climate change. We have said all along that it is foolish to rule out completely the possibility of renewing Scotland's nuclear-generating capacity or having a new generation—that is part...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Climate Change (28 Feb 2006)

David Cairns: ...wrecking the planet in the process? We have two commitments: we need to keep the lights on and tackle fuel poverty, and do it in a way that is consistent with our international obligations on climate change. Some parties pay lip service to the environment, others pay lip service to the economy, but we have to manage both.

Future Energy Needs (Scotland) (1 Dec 2005)

David Cairns: ...the past couple of days, the context for energy policy has moved on in various ways since the White Paper was published almost three years ago. There is now overwhelming evidence of the nature of climate change, which we have not spoken about much in this debate. I believe that everyone accepts it as a given. No one is arguing that it is not happening, so we are considering the next stage....

Written Answers — Scotland: Energy Supply (7 Jun 2005)

David Cairns: ...new sources of energy and the fullest range of technological developments in order to maintain the future reliability of supplies throughout the UK, while also reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change. The major responsibilities for overall energy policy affecting Scotland are reserved to UK Ministers. Scottish Executive Ministers have devolved responsibilities for promotion of...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

Mr David Cairns: ...a crop that provides them with an alternative livelihood as lucrative as that which they enjoy now is a chimera. We might wait to discover such a crop, but it does not exist. In Afghanistan, the climate will not lend itself, as it does in Thailand and Pakistan, to alternative crops that provide a high income for those people. We should not kid them. We need action, as my hon. Friend the...