Results 1-9 of 9 for climate change speaker:Kerry McCarthy

Livestock Industry (Climate Change) (25 Mar 2009)

Kerry McCarthy: ...published its report, "Livestock's Long Shadow" in 2006. It looked at a range of issues, including the impact of the livestock industry on land use, soil, water, biodiversity depletion and climate change. The report's conclusion was stark: "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale...

Livestock Industry (Climate Change) (25 Mar 2009)

Kerry McCarthy: ...that we must go vegetarian or vegan to save the planet. However, Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin, researchers from the university of Chicago, said that becoming a vegetarian does more to fight climate change than switching from a gas-guzzler to a hybrid car. The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also said: "If all families would just have one meatless day a week, this...

Livestock Industry (Climate Change) (25 Mar 2009)

Kerry McCarthy: ...the fact that local food is better. I recognise that farming makes a contribution towards biodiversity and protecting the environment in the smaller sense of the word in the UK, rather than in the climate change sense. Although dairy products are to an extent a feature of the diet in developing countries, in Asia and particularly in China, they are not, but they are increasingly becoming a...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Livestock Industry (26 Nov 2008)

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1333W, on meat and dairy consumption, what the timescale is for the work being undertaken to establish the extent to which all points in the meat production chain contribute to greenhouse gas emissions; what steps he intends to take once that work is completed; and...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Meat and Dairy Consumption (13 Nov 2008)

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what discussions he has had with colleagues in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's assessment of the effects of meat and dairy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind Power: Planning (5 Nov 2008)

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Department for Transport and (b) the Highways Agency on the siting of wind turbines near motorways.

Written Answers — Treasury: Global Carbon Finance Project (10 Jul 2008)

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent discussions Ministers and officials from his Department have had with the Office of Climate Change on the Global Carbon Finance project.

Public Bill Committee: Local Transport Bill [Lords]: Clause 7 (22 Apr 2008)

Kerry McCarthy: ...will be sufficient. In my constituency and in Bristol as a whole, there is incredibly strong support for the sort of environmental objectives that he mentioned. I probably get more letters on climate change than on any other topic. Bristol aims to become the green capital of the United Kingdom—a laudable ambition. There is particularly strong support for cycling in Bristol; apart...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Environmental Protection (Lisbon Treaty) (8 Jan 2008) has video

Kerry McCarthy: I thank my hon. Friend for that response. I very much welcome the fact that tackling climate change is now a specific EU policy objective and that we have the necessary legal framework for it, but does he agree that we also need greater international co-operation to meet EU-wide targets on climate change? What progress is being made on that front?