Results 1-20 of 52 for climate change speaker:Graham Stuart

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Postal Services (12 Nov 2009)

Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with which providers his Department had a contract to provide postal services in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) between 1 January 2009 and 1 July 2009 and (d) since 1 July 2009.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Graham Stuart: ...action and urgency than we have seen from the Government to date. I intend to speak about China, Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment—GLOBE International—and climate change. In the context of climate change, China is often portrayed as a large, irresponsible polluter, as a country that will not come to the table, and, along with the United States, as the...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Graham Stuart: I am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend for correcting me. That helps to put in context the fact that, while in international climate negotiations and diplomacy Britain has taken a leading role of which it can be proud, when it comes to our domestic performance, again and again we lag behind the countries that are typically portrayed by many as the barriers to progress. There is no...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Graham Stuart: ...mayor of Beijing. I believe he was also formerly close to the Deputy Prime Minister of our country, which is, as far as I can see, the only blemish on his record. Wang was the architect of China's climate change legislation and drafted the recent resolution on climate change that was passed by the NPC's standing committee in late August. It received very little attention, but it is a very...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Graham Stuart: ...wrong, is counterproductive? We need to engage in constructive discussion and dialogue with everyone and not to preach. That will carry more people over to accept the risks, as I see it, of climate change, on which my right hon. Friend's views might be slightly different from mine.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Graham Stuart: I congratulate the Secretary of State on his argument. I remember that, when his brother was responsible for these matters, I felt that the introduction to the Bill that became the Climate Change Act 2008 rather overstated the case. We would do better to talk about risk if we are to carry people with us, given that many of them are rightly sceptical. We should not create artificial divides...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 15 (29 Oct 2009)

Graham Stuart: ...a minority point of view in Parliament, but not in the legal community. The Minister needs to take the issue seriously. I go back to Harriet Townsend, the barrister who said, in the context of the Climate Change Bill: “Notwithstanding the potential for judicial review, both the” duties “to ensure compliance with the five yearly budgets would, in my opinion, be ultimately...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 15 (29 Oct 2009)

Graham Stuart: ...in order to meet the 2010 target? Does the Minister seriously expect that sort of thing to happen in future? If he does not, that would suggest what Jeff Rooker said during consideration of the Climate Change Bill: “It is not just about the punishment in the event of failure; it is about trying to change institutional behaviour through a change in the law.”—[Official Report,...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 15 (29 Oct 2009)

Graham Stuart: ...conference speech on 29 September will “impose a legally binding obligation on the Government to reduce public borrowing.” Notwithstanding the fact that the Government have introduced the Climate Change Act 2008 and want to introduce this Bill, they are introducing another legally binding measure, which apparently means that public borrowing has to be reduced. My amendment seeks...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Oct 2009) has video

Graham Stuart: ...parties and both Houses were among 100 legislators from the major economies who came together at the GLOBE legislators forum, which was attended by the Prime Minister of Denmark, on the subject of climate change. The GLOBE forum resulted in a consensus of the 100 legislators on a set of legislative principles that were jointly put forward by United States Congressman Ed Markey and Chairman...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Schedule 1 (27 Oct 2009)

Graham Stuart: This debate is familiar. I had the pleasure of serving on the Joint Committee on the draft Climate Change Bill and, in that pre-legislative scrutiny, extracting and making the point that the Committee on Climate Change needed a decent research budget was like pulling teeth, but a reasonable budget came out in the end. The fact that research budget provision is not already in the Bill fits...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Schedule 1 (27 Oct 2009)

Graham Stuart: ...report to it each year. The commission tells the Committee what progress has been made on central Government delivering on their emissions reduction targets—this was before the Committee on Climate Change came along. It reported in public, and a glossy, expensive brochure was produced year after year, yet even the Department responsible for the policy centrally saw an increase in the...

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — European Commission Annual Policy Strategy (2 Jul 2009)

Graham Stuart: I am extremely grateful. The hon. Lady is right to highlight the importance of tackling climate change. She has not mentioned the lamentable failure of this Government to produce much in the way of renewable energy, which is why I think that only Malta and Luxembourg have a lower percentage of renewable energy than we do. How does the hon. Lady think that we can tackle the failure to invest...

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — European Commission Annual Policy Strategy (2 Jul 2009)

Graham Stuart: ...reduce energy usage in buildings, whereas the UK Government oppose it on the ground of subsidiarity. Will he explain the Government's view on that directive, which appears to be a plank in tackling climate change?

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind Power (21 May 2009)

Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many wind farms there are in England and Wales; how much electricity each produced in 2008; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind Power (13 May 2009)

Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what percentage of the electricity consumed in England and Wales was generated by wind farms in 2008; and if he will make a statement.