Results 1-10 of 10 for climate change speaker:Nick Herbert
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Oct 2009) has video
Nick Herbert: The Commission's draft reformed CAP is reported to include a third pillar on climate change. Farming must play its part in reducing carbon emissions, but does the Minister agree that Lord Stern's call for people to give up eating meat was totally irresponsible and damaging to our livestock industry?
- Bill Presented: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [ Lords] (23 Jun 2009)
Nick Herbert: .... However, the seas are not just crucial for marine creatures. They are of the utmost importance for people, too, performing the vital tasks of absorbing damaging greenhouse gases, regulating our climate and producing oxygen for us to breathe. It must also be recognised that many people enjoy the benefits of the marine environment through a variety of leisure and sporting activities. The...
- Bill Presented: Food, Farming and the Environment (18 Jun 2009) has video
Nick Herbert: ...travails of dealing with foot and mouth and bovine TB—a subject to which I wish to return. They also operate in an increasingly open and competitive marketplace, as the nature of support has changed. However, many things have remained all too familiar since that last debate: dominant supermarkets, inadequate food labelling, and excessive and growing regulatory burdens. All that is...
- Bill Presented: Food, Farming and the Environment (18 Jun 2009) has video
Nick Herbert: ..., we need to rely on a number of things, one of which is correct food labelling, which I shall come to shortly. I was talking about the balance between agriculture and the environment. Today's climate change projections suggest profound effects on agriculture and the environment in the years ahead, as we discussed in relation to the Secretary of State's statement earlier. We will need a...
- Bill Presented: Food, Farming and the Environment (18 Jun 2009) has video
Nick Herbert: ..."British" actually means "British". There is still misleading labelling. Six months ago, the Secretary of State told the Oxford farming conference that labelling rules were "nonsense" and had to change. He said that he would meet processors and retailers to discuss how to bring about a voluntary agreement. Can he tell us what progress he has made? If he wishes to intervene, I shall be...
- Business of the House: UK Climate Projections (18 Jun 2009) has video
Nick Herbert: I thank the Secretary of State for early sight of his statement and for his courtesy in briefing me this morning. This week, a report on global climate change impacts in the United States showed that climate change is already affecting water, energy, transport, agriculture, ecosystems and health. Those impacts are occurring now and are expected to increase. These new Met Office projections...
- [Ann Winterton in the Chair] — Investigating the Oceans (2 Apr 2009)
Nick Herbert: ...essential if we are to respond to the challenges to our marine ecosystems. It is possible to identify five key challenges to the marine environment. First, and perhaps the most significant, is climate change and its impact on sea levels. The world's oceans absorb more than one quarter of the carbon dioxide that the human race generates, and half of that is absorbed in the Southern ocean...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water Shortages (2 Apr 2009) has video
Nick Herbert: In a week when the Environment Agency has warned that climate change and a rising population will increase pressure on water supplies and when households have once again seen above-inflation rises in water bills, has the time not come for a new regulatory approach, so that water companies, and not just their customers, are incentivised to conserve and value water? Will the Secretary of State...
- Ford Eco-Town (18 Mar 2009) has video
Nick Herbert: ...we should probably be increasing food production in our country and worried about food security. The appraisal also stated that "although the area is not designated there is still a potential to change the setting and character of local villages" such as those I have mentioned. The flood risk also needs to be addressed, and the Government acknowledged that, too, as a key weakness in their...
- Greater Manchester Police (23 Jan 2007)
Nick Herbert: ...greater efficiencies and it is absolutely right that this House should demand efficiencies and value for money from all public services. The Treasury, in a paper published last year on delivering a step change in police productivity, said that "Cashable efficiencies will need to be at least double"— that is double the level in 2004—and that they would have to be "offset...