Results 1-20 of 87 for climate change speaker:Huw Irranca-Davies

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Rivers: Hydroelectric Power (12 Nov 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...include: Angling Trust APEM Ltd Association of Rivers Trusts Brecon Beacons National Park British Hydropower Association British Waterways Countryside Council for Wales Department of Energy and Climate Change DEFRA Department of Environment, Northern Ireland Derwent Hydropower Ecowave Systems Ltd Entec Fishtek Consulting Hull University Jacobs Lake District National Park Natural England...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (29 Oct 2009) has video

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...and other agencies to look forward and shape a vision for the future. I suspect that that vision will be concerned with access, sustainable ways of living, living and breathing communities and climate change. The national parks have a critical role to play in the future of this country, and re-imagining what the next 60 years will be like is part of the current review.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Countryside: Access (14 Sep 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...play in not only enabling visitors to enjoy the benefits of our National Parks, but also in helping the next generation appreciate the invaluable role the National Parks play in combating climate change.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Floods: Finance (14 Sep 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...659 million is going to the Environment Agency, local authorities' own expenditure will be an estimated £87 million and the remainder retained by DEFRA to implement the Pitt Review findings and help communities to adapt to climate change. In August, the Secretary of State announced which local authorities will benefit from funding set aside to implement the findings of the Pitt Review.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Forestry (16 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: The last meeting of the UK Forestry Ministers' Group took place on 20 October 2005 to discuss forestry and climate change.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Trees (16 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...the Forestry Commission that is responsible for carrying out investigations into and providing advice on tree health issues, has recently been restructured to give greater emphasis to the impact of climate change on tree health. Its new Centre for Forestry and Climate Change researches the effects of environmental and climate change on forestry, and how the sector can play its part in...

Written Ministerial Statements — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (16 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...the services, activities, and organisational arrangements at RBG, Kew remain the most effective means of achieving its own, DEFRA's, as well as Government-wide objectives, such as those relating to climate change, conservation and biodiversity, overall science policy, and the operational efficiency agenda; to assess what changes, if any, are needed in the light of the findings of the...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Floods (6 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: The UK Climate Projections 2009 (UKCP09) show that the climate in the UK is likely to change, and present probabilities for different potential climate outcomes. This information will help flood and coastal erosion risk management operating authorities, such as the Environment Agency, improve their risk-based decision making. The parameters that are available from UKCP09 do not allow direct...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (2 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: .... I might be able to help in relation to amendment 3, too. The amendment seeks  to require the MMO, in the course of exercising its functions, to have regard to the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change. As those who tabled the amendment might be aware, the issue was raised during Committee in the other place by Lord Greaves and Lord Tyler. The marine environment plays a vital...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Schedule 1 (2 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...will be recruited. A comprehensive training and induction programme is being developed, as well as managed knowledge transfer plans for those staff who are coming from the MFA, the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Department for Transport, as well as for those staff who will not be relocating to Tyneside. The structure and format of the new body will not just be the MFA...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Marine Conservation (2 Jul 2009) has video

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...Dr. Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the US, when he visited the United States in May 2009. They discussed the UK marine strategy and the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems.

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 117 (30 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...it in guidance and we will continue to say it. We want the momentum behind this to continue, so that we do not simply have individual sites but sites where species can spawn and reproduce. With climate change they can move from site to site and so on. I could go further. Several hon. Membersrose—

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 117 (30 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...this amendment has highlighted the importance of keeping our definition of science flexible enough to allow for future developments in scientific knowledge and techniques. He rightly referred to climate change. We are facing ocean acidification and will face many other challenges over the next four, five or 10 years. I shall deal now with the second aim of the amendment. Although I...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 44 (30 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...installations that might cause limited damage to existing natural resources? As an illustration, even the installation of a farm of wind turbines, to help us reduce our carbon footprint and combat climate change, involves activity that does not conserve or enhance the natural geology and geo-morphology. Clause 58(1) requires public authorities to take decisions in accordance with the MPS...

Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Bill: Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Sale) Bill (26 Jun 2009) has video

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...role as co-chair of GLOBE International, my hon. Friend has never resiled from his commitment to this issue at any level. As others have said, this issue goes to the heart of where we are on climate change, criminality, corruption, the rule of law, good governance in countries, economic development, impacts on indigenous communities and forest ecosystems, and so forth. If we get this...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Sequestration: Algae (25 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: I have been asked to reply. While the priorities for tackling climate change should continue to be overwhelmingly focussed on greenhouse gas emission reductions, and adaptation to unavoidable climate change, we should not rule out any climate change mitigation technologies at an early stage. Ocean fertilisation involves adding nutrients, usually iron, nitrogen or phosphorus compounds, to...