Results 1-20 of 83 for climate change speaker:Mark Lazarowicz

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: ...industries of various sorts. They are already involved in many initiatives showing how moving to a low-carbon economy can be good for the economy and the future. We need to emphasise to the public that changing to a low-carbon economy undoubtedly means substantial changes in the way we live, but that it does not necessarily mean moving to a hair-shirt existence. It is a question of...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: ...interest in such issues. Interestingly, even during an economic recession, when traditionally people are more interested in bread-and-butter issues of the economy than in saving the planet and climate change, I find that people are still as interested as they were a year or two ago. I believe that public concern is greater than ever before. That is the basis on which I proceed in...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: ...across. However, my experience is that the public concern is still there and I do not think that it will go away. Indeed, the realities of what is happening in the outside world as a result of climate change will always bring the issue back into political debate as a central part of demands for action. Given our importance in Parliament as politicians representing the wider community, it...

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (5 Nov 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: What opportunities are presented by the likely signing of the Lisbon treaty for Europe to work together to tackle climate change?

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: International Co-operation (5 Nov 2009)

Mark Lazarowicz: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent progress towards agreement has been made in international negotiations on climate change.

Points of Order (13 Oct 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: ...public domain in advance of a report to Parliament. Would you consider the position of statutory bodies that have an obligation to report to Parliament? I ask that question because the Committee on Climate Change, published an excellent report yesterday in Parliament. The full report including full documentation was released at one minute past midnight yesterday and was presented to the...

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (9 Jul 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: Will my right hon. Friend give the House an update on the progress made yesterday and overnight at L'Aquila on climate change?

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

Mark Lazarowicz: ...that my hon. Friend the Minister will recall that the Committee has been very willing to support and to back the Government at times when they have had few friends in connection with moving the climate change agenda and other issues forward. Most of the detailed comments that I could make on the report have, not surprisingly, been made in earlier speeches, so I restrict myself to a few...

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] — Regional Aviation Policy (17 Jun 2009)

Mark Lazarowicz: ...this—that the growth of air travel is a potential major contribution to the growth of UK greenhouse gas emissions. We have stop that growth, or reduce it, if we are to meet the UK's wider climate change objectives. That does not mean that we will stop people flying or that we should seek to do so. All of us, including me, fly from time to time. The question is, what is the right...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: One of the issues that will be high up the agenda for the meeting at the end of this week will be climate change. All the parties represented in the Chamber recognise the importance of tackling climate change. The evidence is mounting that even previous projections for the rate at which global warming was taking place have been on the low side. Much depends on the possibility of the world's...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: ...to conclude until an agreement has been reached, even if it means going through from Thursday to Sunday or Monday next week. The summit will not be regarded as a success in the run-up to the climate change negotiations if anything other than the most minor details of an agreement are left to future discussions and meetings. It is essential that that point be made in the run-up to the...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: ...which cannot be left untouched for much longer. Above all, our Governments must ensure that the European Union devises solutions and programmes for the important issues of the day. I have mentioned climate change, the middle east, economic recovery, international development and global security. If the European Union can get back on track, tackle such issues and get results, we will...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

Mark Lazarowicz: ...—and I was certainly one of the latter—have urged him to establish a programme for green jobs, arguing that such a programme would allow us to link the need to tackle the challenges of climate change with the need to provide jobs here and now for people facing unemployment. We suggested that a fund be set up to help local authorities and voluntary organisations provide jobs...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

Mark Lazarowicz: ...anyone now to dispute the fact that we need to diversify to reflect the lessons that we have all learned from what has happened in the past few months and years. The situation is clearly going to change in the future, and we have to recognise that there are plenty of other destabilising factors out there in the world that could easily trigger similar economic upsets. They include the...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Meters (10 Mar 2009)

Mark Lazarowicz: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) whether priority in the introduction of smart meters will be given to communities where there is high use of pre-payment meters combined with a large number of people in fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement; (2) when the introduction of smart meters will begin; and in which areas.

Orders of the Day: New Clause 15 — Advice on emissions from international aviation and international shipping (28 Oct 2008) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: Will the hon. Gentleman give the House the source of his assertion that 46 per cent. of scientists disagree with the view that climate change is caused by human activity?

Orders of the Day: European Affairs (18 Jun 2008) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: ...hard to defend our national interest, but we should also try to promote it in a spirit of co-operation in order to achieve objectives on which we should all agree—energy security, tackling climate change, effective security within Europe and meeting the challenges of globalisation. Those are the priorities we need for Europe, rather than the sort of internal debate that has dominated...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Climate Change (3 Jun 2008) has video

Mark Lazarowicz: What account she takes of climate change in formulating transport policy; and if she will make a statement.

Written Answers — International Development: European Union Global Climate Change Alliance (15 May 2008)

Mark Lazarowicz: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what support the Government plan to give to the European Union Global Climate Change Alliance.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (31 Jan 2008)

Mark Lazarowicz: Elsewhere in Parliament, the Department has an exhibition about the excellent work it is doing to promote public awareness of climate change. Why, however, are some of the Department's programmes promoting awareness restricted to England, or England and Wales? I urge my right hon. Friend and his colleagues to ensure that they apply throughout the UK, where appropriate—and, obviously, in...