Results 1-20 of 93 for climate change speaker:Colin Challen

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Colin Challen: ...to that point later. It was also a pleasure to hear my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson) talk about Bangladesh, partly because the all-party parliamentary climate change group of the Westminster Parliament is currently conducting an inquiry jointly with the Bangladeshi Parliament's all-party climate change group. We hope to publish our report just in...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Colin Challen: That would call for the most radical transformation of our economy. Many people are working on that, but they are still on the fringe, perhaps in the way that people who spoke about climate change were on the fringe 30 years ago. I do not necessarily include Margaret Thatcher, but I bet that some people in her party thought that she was a bit on the fringe when talking about climate change to...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Colin Challen: I am always fascinated by cast-iron guarantees, so I shall look forward to reading that document as soon as possible. I want now to turn to our plans. The Committee on Climate Change has been bold in the recommendations in its first annual report to Parliament. I hope that, as with the Kelly report, we will adopt the CCC's entire recommendations without equivocation. That would call for a...

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

Colin Challen: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I apologise to the House for intervening, but I have something on my chest. Last week the Climate Change Committee's first annual report to Parliament, containing many recommendations, was published. He does not have to wait until next year to respond to it. Will he say now whether a future Conservative Government will accept all its recommendations?

Bills Presented: Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (16 Jul 2009) has video

Colin Challen: I wonder why it would be convenient for politicians to want to invent climate change. Surely climate change is the biggest inconvenience to our normal politics that has ever been conceived of.

Bills Presented: Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (16 Jul 2009) has video

Colin Challen: It is pleasure to take part in this short debate on climate change. The fact that it is a short debate indicates that more immediate problems tend to come ahead of climate change in our consideration—I do not intend to undermine the importance of the debate on Afghanistan in any way. I look forward to a longer debate on climate change in the autumn. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of...

Bills Presented: Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (16 Jul 2009) has video

Colin Challen: ...the contribution of Government policy to reductions in CO2 emissions in this country since 1990, I received the reply that the dash for gas contributed 15 per cent. of that reduction, that the change between imports and exports—the fact that more manufacturing takes place in China and we import it back—accounted for about 30 per cent. of the reduction in carbon emissions, and...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (13 Jul 2009)

Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the amount of UK greenhouse gas emission reductions against a 1990 baseline attributable to (a) the transition of electricity generation from coal to gas, (b) the sourcing of services and goods as between domestic and overseas production, (c) the use of carbon credits sourced outwith the UK, (d) the...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Colin Challen: ...to analyse the consequences of his pilot programme. I will be waiting to see whether he wins a seventh endorsement for his stance. Today is important because we have seen the publication of the climate change projections report, which I have here. It is also 20 days short of the fifth anniversary of the publication of my Domestic Tradable Quotas (Carbon Emissions) Bill, which dealt with...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Colin Challen: ...to all MPs electronically a few weeks ago. People were asked: "What would you say is the most important issue facing Britain today?" I had to look well down the list to find anything to do with climate change, which was chosen by about 4 per cent. I can understand why 39 per cent. said it was the economic situation. The next biggest block, at 12 per cent., was race relations and...

Business of the House: UK Climate Projections (18 Jun 2009) has video

Colin Challen: I really do welcome today's statement, given that its timing quite deliberately coincides with my presentation afterwards of a Bill to introduce climate change health warnings in all car adverts. I would like to ask my right hon. Friend about the central role that water companies will have to play in our future. Is he happy with the regulatory regime, which obviously places the supply of...

Energy and Climate Change: Global Population (4 Jun 2009) has video

Colin Challen: Quite right too. My hon. Friend will know that the Waxman-Markey Bill on tackling climate change is working its way through the US Congress, but it has already been watered down somewhat—and it has not yet reached the Senate. That suggests that the Bill could be watered down more. Considering that background, if we are to have higher ambitions in the EU based on a deal, should we not...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations: Safety (20 May 2009)

Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent discussions his Department has had with the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate on the safety control systems for the design of the generic European Pressurised Water Reactor; and what the timetable is for the assessment of generic design candidate reactors for new nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Environmental Transformation Fund (20 Mar 2009)

Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which projects for which his Department is responsible are receiving funding from the Environmental Transformation Fund; how much each has received from the Fund since its inception; and what further projects are planned.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions: EC Action (4 Mar 2009)

Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the efficacy of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme in the light of the recession.

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Heathrow (Third Runway) (28 Jan 2009) has video

Colin Challen: ...deprecated. However, wrong-headedness is also to be deprecated. I am disappointed that my right hon. Friend has begun his speech on the premise that we should bow to the market forces first and put climate change somewhere down the ladder. That appears to be the case. The industry's own sustainable aviation road map predicts that by 2020 there will be a sizeable increase in aviation...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations (26 Nov 2008)

Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the security of supply of uranium for the whole lifetime of any new nuclear power station built in the UK.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations: Flood Control (26 Nov 2008)

Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment he has made of the impact of projected changes in (a) sea level and (b) the frequency and severity of storm-related events on the (i) working lifetime and (ii) decommissioning period of new nuclear power stations located on the coast; and what arrangements are in place for funding (A) protective measures and...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations (25 Nov 2008)

Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the working lifetime of any new nuclear power station built in the UK.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Uranium: Prices (24 Nov 2008)

Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the price of uranium during the whole lifetime of any new nuclear power station built in the UK.