Results 1-20 of 103 for climate change speaker:Rob Marris

Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video

Rob Marris: Climate change is accelerating and sea levels are rising. Of the 10 potentially suitable sites for new nuclear power stations, how many are less than 20 metres above sea level?

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

Rob Marris: I think the House will know what I am going to say. The world is changing out there: already from climate change we have floods, pestilence, and population movement. Are the hon. Gentleman and his party going to say anything about adaptation?

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

Rob Marris: May I gently suggest to the hon. Gentleman and the House as a whole that a debate on the UK's political response to climate change on the Liberal Democrat motion—the Government amendment is hardly better—is monstrous, because the motion says nothing about adapting to climate change? As he has said, people are already dying from climate change. We need to take adaptation just as...

Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change (Public Awareness) (9 Jul 2009) has video

Rob Marris: I have spent the past three and a half years campaigning on adaptation to climate change. I am delighted to say that the string of Government announcements in the past six months shows that the Government have finally got it. By approximately what date will the adaptation sub-committee of the Committee on Climate Change produce its first report?

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: Public Awareness (9 Jul 2009)

Rob Marris: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment he has made of the level of awareness among the public of the consequences of climate change.

Bill Presented: Clause 14 — Rates from April 2010 (13 May 2009) has video

Rob Marris: ...Greening), who was present for the early part of this debate. It raises a question about the concept of being open to discussion and public debate and the tendency in the UK body politic to decry changes of position by Government or Opposition parties as U-turns, when such changes are often the result of productive discussions, informed by fresh information. That is what my Government did...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions: Canada (31 Mar 2009)

Rob Marris: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will hold discussions with his Canadian federal and provincial counterparts on the quantity of carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the extraction of oil from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada.

Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]: British Agriculture and Food Labelling (24 Feb 2009) has video

Rob Marris: ...and given that this one is about British agricultural production and food labelling, can the Minister say a little about security of supply? As I have said, that is a growing issue, given that climate change is accelerating worldwide and will adversely affect food production both in countries from which we have hitherto received food and in this country. Security of supply is vital and it...

Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]: British Agriculture and Food Labelling (24 Feb 2009) has video

Rob Marris: ...consumer information, but it seems odd for a debate in the House of Commons. I put it to the hon. Gentleman that a much more important issue in relation to food is food security, particularly with climate change in the world. We are not doing enough about security of supply in the United Kingdom. That is the debate worth having in the Chamber, not this one.

Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]: Government Capital Expenditure (2 Feb 2009)

Rob Marris: ...is saying. I think that there is a need to build hundreds of thousands of social housing units in the United Kingdom, to deal with the 30-year backlog. I also think that, in order to meet our climate change commitments, there is a need to insulate homes and so on, to which the motion refers. However, I understand him to have just said that if something is worthy, there should be no cap on...

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

Rob Marris: ...acts in the interests of the environment...and that it follows guidance from myself and my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and for Energy and Climate Change." He also referred to the important safeguards that "the independent regulators would have a legal duty and the necessary powers to take the action—or require others to take...

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

Rob Marris: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the official Opposition's motion partly contradicts the position that he has consistently put forward on climate change? The motion calls for an exploration of "the potential of other UK airports to handle more long-haul flights". Will not that contradiction within the motion present a dilemma for him?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Midland Main Line (27 Jan 2009) has video

Rob Marris: ...proposals that Network Rail will put to me shortly."—[ Official Report, 15 January 2009; Vol. 486, c. 356.] Will my right hon. Friend assure me that he will also consult the Committee on Climate Change, because electrification of major parts of our network is long overdue, and it will have climate change implications? Will he please consult the committee on this matter?

European Affairs (9 Dec 2008) has video

Rob Marris: Could my right hon. Friend say a little more about what the European Union is doing on the other side of the equation to adapt to climate change? For example, almost every member state of the EU has a land border with another member state, as does the United Kingdom in Ireland, and there are issues to do with water flows, flooding and such like. What is the EU doing to assist with the...

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

Rob Marris: I humbly suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that he is completely wrong. There is no question of "solving the problem". The 80 per cent. target is proposed in order to limit climate change to an average of 2° C, not to keep at a certain level with no change. The figure of 2° C is somewhat arbitrary—indeed, anything that we do in that regard is arbitrary—but if we set...

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

Rob Marris: Does the hon. Gentleman accept that human activity is a significant contributory factor to the change that many scientists say the climate has been undergoing in the past 50 years?

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

Rob Marris: ...on in the House for more than two years, initially as a lone voice. However, we also need to lessen emissions because I have no doubt that human activity contributes significantly to adverse climate change. I have been seized of that notion for the past 35 years, since I studied it at university, and I am not a scientist—the science has been around for a long time. Of course, just...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (17 Jul 2008) has video

Rob Marris: What steps his Department is taking to encourage best practice in adaptation to climate change in the countryside.