Results 1-9 of 9 for climate change speaker:Ian Lucas

Written Ministerial Statements — Business, Innovation and Skills: EU Informal Competitiveness Council (26 Oct 2009)

Ian Lucas: ...can be mutually reinforcing, not conflicting. However member states also stressed the need for a global "level playing field" and the importance of agreeing a global deal at the United Nations climate change conference at Copenhagen in December. In the informal breakout sessions, the UK stressed the need for the EU to be a good place to do business, for EU companies to have access to...

Textile Industry (21 Oct 2009)

Ian Lucas: ...all industries, textile manufacturing in the UK is reinventing itself, and the hon. Gentleman referred to the innovation of the textile industry in his constituency and the way it has been able to change, developing from a cottage industry at its inception hundreds of years ago and through the industrial revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, which saw a massive textile industry...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Departmental Responsibilities (23 Jun 2009)

Ian Lucas: ...Commonwealth Office, continues to promote the UK renewable energy industries internationally. UKTI's Energy Team, based in Glasgow, does this in close partnership with the Department of Energy and Climate Change, which, through the organisation UK Renewables, supports the development of the renewables supply chain in the UK.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: UK Trade and Investment: Low Carbon Sector (23 Jun 2009)

Ian Lucas: ...and Commonwealth Affairs, and officials from UK Trade and Investment, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and Department of Energy and Climate Change. Next steps are to develop specific marketing for a number of sectors and to use this in the UK and overseas to market the UK's low carbon offer to secure trade and investment. UK...

Renewable Energy (28 Mar 2006)

Ian Lucas: ...would be much more effective, so that they could ensure that they had easy access to microgeneration. The cause is very noble. We are all committed to addressing the problems of global warming. We have heard the news on climate change in the past three days, which is of some concern. We need to establish that individuals have a responsibility to make a contribution. The Government need to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (20 Oct 2005)

Ian Lucas: What recent discussions she has had with the Department of Trade and Industry concerning action to reduce climate change.

Renewable Energy (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Ian Lucas: ...field. In north Wales, we are at the forefront of those developments. The North Hoyle wind project off the Rhyl coast is already producing energy, and phase two of the project will introduce a step change in the scale of production. St. Asaph business park has the largest single solar cell power source in the UK and Sharp in Wrexham is expanding rapidly. Last week, I was delighted that a...

Manufacturing Industry (North Wales) (8 Jul 2003)

Mr Ian Lucas: ...that send out to multinational companies in an intensely competitive world? The answer is that they feel that they would get better support elsewhere. I also appeal to the Welsh Assembly Government to change their attitude to the A5-A483 road development, which is due in England but not in Wales. That crucial link to the midlands and south Wales must be improved for the benefit of the...

United Nations (23 May 2002)

Mr Ian Lucas: ...I discovered that the truth was far more interesting. The Afghanistan crisis dominated the political agenda, but people in the UN were following a parallel agenda, considering world poverty, AIDS, climate change and globalisation. I was hugely impressed by the officials from the UN whom I met and with whom I discussed those issues. What struck me was that they used the same language about...