Results 1-20 of 139 for climate change speaker:Martin Horwood

Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video

Martin Horwood: The Secretary of State claimed that his statement was consistent with the Committee on Climate Change's projections, but actually, it said last month that unabated coal should not form any part of our energy generation plans after 2020, whereas the statement only compels clean carbon capture and storage on 400 MW for each power station, and only expects the rest to be retro-fitted later. Does...

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Martin Horwood: ...that—away from any dwelling. So the Bill would kill that project. Our local and national carbon emissions reduction goals would remain intact, however. Our carbon budgets, newly agreed in the Climate Change Act 2008, which was supported by those on the Conservative Front Bench, would still be there. If the Bill were to cut off wind turbine projects such as the one for Springfield...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Martin Horwood: Copenhagen is our last best chance to avoid catastrophe. For 30 years we have known about man-made climate change and I am deeply proud that the Liberal party, all those years ago, was the first British political party to address it. Since then, the science has become clearer and more worrying. There is now a clear global consensus among scientists that climate change is man-made but still...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Martin Horwood: ...trump the Commission. This is where we decide on Parliament's ambitions. I also give credit where it is due to the Government. It is fair to say that they have shown leadership in helping to put climate change on the international agenda and introduced the world's first climate change Act, although they were dragged somewhat reluctantly to the target of 80 per cent. However, it was...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Forestry (9 Sep 2009)

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the definition of (a) forestry investment and (b) sustainable forestry management was as contained in the declaration on international climate negotiations at the UK-French summit in Evian on 6 July 2009.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Forestry (21 Jul 2009)

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his policy is on (a) the form in which and (b) the level to which industrialised countries should increase expenditure on forestry; what benefits he expects to accrue from expenditure on forestry; and what his policy is on the inclusion of forestry in carbon markets to prevent deforestation and degradation.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Forestry (21 Jul 2009)

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to which forestry activities the declaration on international climate negotiations at the UK-French summit in Evian on 6 July 2009 referred.

Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords] (1 Jun 2009) has video

Martin Horwood: ...power for the centre and the Secretary of State, as my hon. Friend the Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Julia Goldsworthy) rightly pointed out. There is no reference to any obligation to take climate change, either mitigation or adaptation, into account. There is not even a reference to the Government's own natural environment public service agreement as part of the regional strategies....

Pub Ownership (28 Apr 2009)

Martin Horwood: ...by Gloucestershire MPs from all three main parties in this debate. We are losing 40 pubs a week in this country, or something of that order. That is a national crisis. It may not compare with climate change, global recession or even pandemic flu, but after we have spent all day contemplating those global catastrophes we need a pint and somewhere good to drink it in.

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

Martin Horwood: ...on this occasion I am afraid he cannot. The background could not be more serious. Despite the scepticism still being expressed from the Conservative Benches today, the intergovernmental panel on climate change's 2007 assessment painted a deeply worrying picture, stating that any more than 2° of global warming would usher in higher and higher risks of massive species extinctions,...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

Martin Horwood: ...carbon emissions. To give him his due, the Secretary of State made a string of important concessions when he took office last year, from the 80 per cent. target for greenhouse gas reduction to the Climate Change Act 2008 and to the promised introduction of feed-in tariffs for renewable energy in the Energy Act 2008, but even those were relatively easy to concede in the short term, just...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

Martin Horwood: ...it to my attention. There are, of course, many bear traps in the area of biofuels. Unless we implement sustainability criteria, we could contribute to global warming rather than prevent it. The Climate Change Committee says that aviation must face an appropriate cost for carbon to provide an incentive for supply-side abatement and demand constraint. The background to the third runway...

Business of the House: Coal and Carbon Capture and Storage (23 Apr 2009)

Martin Horwood: ...a result, we have lost crucial ground to the United States, Canada, Brazil, China and others in benefiting commercially from this technology. My first question is on funding, which the Committee on Climate Change and The Guardian seem to agree will come from a charge on the power system—in other words, on customers' bills. Today's statement was, understandably, a little cagier,...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Committee on Climate Change: Finance (20 Apr 2009)

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the budget of the Committee on Climate Change is for 2009-10.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Congo Basin Forest Fund (1 Apr 2009)

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change who represents the Government on the governing body of the Congo Basin Forest Fund.

Nuclear Energy (31 Mar 2009)

Martin Horwood: ...justification authority, so it does not have to be the Secretary of State. There could have been a public inquiry, or he could have nominated the Environmental Audit Committee or the Committee on Climate Change or perhaps even the Sustainable Development Commission, which is the body established by Government to advise them on sustainable development. [Mr. Roger Gale in the Chair] The...

Nuclear Energy (31 Mar 2009)

Martin Horwood: ...whether UK plc will really benefit from what is proposed. In a recent report, Sir John Houghton, the former director general of the Met Office and former co-chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, highlighted the fact that the only working example of a new generation nuclear power station, in Finland, is already experiencing quite a lot of problems. He wrote: "The delays...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (30 Mar 2009)

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change who represents the Government on the governing body of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility.