Results 1-20 of 55 for climate change speaker:Bill Wiggin
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Palm Oil (12 Nov 2009)
Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department was represented at the most recent Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil meeting; and if he will make a statement.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Palm Oil (12 Nov 2009)
Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he last discussed the use of sustainable palm oil with (a) Ministerial colleagues, (b) representatives of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, (c) representatives of the palm oil industry, (d) representatives of environmental non governmental organisations and (e) officials of other Government departments; and if he will...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Palm Oil (12 Nov 2009)
Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his most recent assessment is of the effect on climate change and carbon emissions of the palm oil industry; what his Department's policy is on the use of sustainable palm oil; what representations he expects to make on the contribution of the palm oil industry to the level of carbon emissions and climate change at the...
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Bill Wiggin: ...to 10 million hectares of rainforest having been cleared across Sumatra and Borneo, within 15 years 98 per cent. of Indonesian rainforest could be extinct. That will have a devastating impact on climate change, on efforts to reduce emissions and on vital habitats. There are 7,000 Sumatran orang-utans and 12,000 to 15,000 Bornean orang-utans left in the wild. Extinction could be as near as...
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Bill Wiggin: .... In Hereford, we had a 350 campaign meeting in the town hall; it was extremely good, and I enjoyed taking part in it. Something very serious went on there that showed why we need to get the climate change debate handled properly and why we need success in Copenhagen. A lot of people, from all sorts of different political parties, brought forward their little dream lists of things they...
- Business of the House: Fisheries (20 Nov 2008) has video
Bill Wiggin: ...and to his first annual fisheries debate. He is the third Minister I have faced across the Dispatch Box in the past three years. We have a new Minister in a reformed Department, with some of its climate change responsibilities removed, so now is the right time for some much needed and long-overdue fresh thinking and decisive action on behalf of fisheries. The Minister has just returned...
- Business of the House: Fisheries (20 Nov 2008) has video
Bill Wiggin: ...the champion of the marine environment when decisions are made outside of its remit and before it has even been established. We have already seen in the last few days the Department for Energy and Climate Change announce the outcome of the 25th round of offshore oil and gas licensing applications. Many right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House who signed up to support the...
- Opposition Day — 16th Allotted Day: Food Security (30 Jun 2008) has video
Bill Wiggin: ...agricultural matters, but he did tell the House that he was talking to his slugs and snails, which made me chuckle. He also talked about the horticulture industry and melting leeks, the limits of climate change, and—most important—the world food summit. I listened carefully and with enjoyment to what he said about the President of Madagascar's speech, about the fact that we...