Results 1-20 of 96 for climate change speaker:Edward Miliband

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

Edward Miliband: ...impact reports. The Infrastructure Planning Commission will make its decisions on the basis of a clear timetable of a year from the acceptance of an application to a decision. That is a crucial change from the system that operated in the past. This system is right for energy security. By meeting our commitments on renewables we can limit the need for gas imports, holding them at 2010...

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

Edward Miliband: ...plan B, and I shall try to resist the temptation. We need to focus on plan A, which is getting a more robust price for carbon. We have recommendations from the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change, as he knows, and we will obviously consider them as part of the 2020 to 2050 road map that we will produce in the spring.

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

Edward Miliband: I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. The Committee on Climate Change is very clear that there is a limited role for unabated coal in the 2020s, and we agree.

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

Edward Miliband: In a sense, we see from the contributions of hon. Members the jobs impact that new nuclear can have in this country, as well as on energy security and our climate change targets. My hon. Friend spoke very eloquently about what it will do in his constituency.

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

Edward Miliband: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need to ensure, both for reasons of national prosperity and, frankly, energy security and climate change, that we have a supply chain that can accommodate the increase in nuclear power we are talking about. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary is working on this with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: I beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of climate change: preparation for the Copenhagen climate change conference. As Members will know, the United Nations Copenhagen climate change conference will open in a month's time. At this critical time, the Government believe that it is important for the House to have a chance to discuss our preparations for the conference. In the...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: ...There is a strong scientific and environmental argument. The truth is that we must act. The 4° map that we have attached to the documents for this debate illustrates some of the impact of dangerous climate change that will arise if we do not act, including melting of glaciers, rises in sea levels, and increasing drought, and that applies not just abroad. There is another issue that we...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: ...hon. Gentleman makes an important and characteristically smart point. Children really understand the issue. I believe that 50 per cent. of parents pay attention to their children when it comes to climate change, but that only 2 per cent. pay attention to politicians. That is perhaps slightly depressing. [ Interruption. ] I do not agree with the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: Having succeeded in getting Kettering's role into our discussions twice in the past two hours, the hon. Gentleman deserves local coverage. He speaks proudly for Kettering's role in climate change, and its people may be better informed than the general population, but the answers depend slightly on how questions are asked.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: ...that we cannot afford the cost and that it is very difficult to do that. I hope that we can get an agreement that is ambitious enough, so that Europe can move to the 30 per cent. target, partly for climate change and environmental reasons, but also for economic reasons. If we want a more robust carbon price—I believe that we all do, to achieve the low-carbon investment that we need...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: ...will happen on a certain date, we must make the low-carbon transition. I find that the peak oilers get very exercised about this question, for reasons that I understand, but whether we care about climate change or peak oil, the basic message is in a sense, "Let's diversify; let's move to low carbon." Let me move to the second part of my remarks. What kind of agreement are we looking for?...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: We want to limit the amount of money that is spent from the aid budget, but about 10 per cent. of the aid budget is already spent on climate-related activities, because the truth is that in certain cases we cannot separate out climate change-induced issues from issues of poverty, as the two are inextricably linked. That concludes my second point, which was on fairness and finance. My third...

Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Mitigation (Developing Countries) (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: ...agreement at Copenhagen. The recent European Union decision to support €100 billion a year of public and private finance by 2020 is designed to help developing countries both to adapt to climate change and to pursue low-carbon growth. We now want other developed countries to join us in supporting this financial commitment.

Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Mitigation (Developing Countries) (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In a sense, one of the cruellest things about climate change is that the people who have done least to cause the problem, including in Africa and elsewhere, face the worst consequences, while at the same time we have to persuade developing countries to do not as we did, which is to grow in a high-carbon way, but to do as we say, which is to grow in a...

Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Mitigation (Developing Countries) (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: I am not sure that walking out is a great way of achieving progress, but that shows that the United Nations framework convention on climate change talks have a history, I am afraid, of mistrust, so progress has been too slow. That is why we have to find other forums, such as the Major Economies Forum that we hosted in London, to pursue success. The truth is that the way to overcome that...

Energy and Climate Change: International Co-operation (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: My hon. Friend is right to say that deforestation is a very big part of the climate change problem. The issue also involves how we help people in forest nations to carry out the environmental service that we want them to provide to the world, which is not cutting down the forests. Any agreement at Copenhagen needs to include a way to provide the necessary finance for those countries, so that...

Energy and Climate Change: International Co-operation (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: .... I must say to the hon. Lady that when one talks to people around the world, one finds, as my ministerial colleague has said, that people see that Britain has achieved a huge amount on tackling climate change—it is one of the few countries to exceed its Kyoto targets. Of course there is more to do, but the question is: who is going to make that low-carbon transition happen? As I...

Energy and Climate Change: International Co-operation (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: ..., and the hon. Gentleman has asked a pertinent question. The International Energy Agency has estimated that without finding a carbon capture and storage solution, the cost of the world's tackling climate change will be 70 per cent. higher. In my view, there is no solution to the problem of climate change without a solution to the problem of coal. It is part of the discussions that we are...

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: Population is definitely an issue in relation to climate change; my hon. Friend is absolutely right. Many people make that point to me at meetings that I attend. As she implies, the answers to this are the traditional answers that we know work, particularly in developing countries, in terms of women's education and ensuring that development aid goes to women. The economic growth that the...

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (5 Nov 2009) has video

Edward Miliband: We said in the low carbon transition plan, which is getting a lot of airtime today, that the impact of the climate change measures that we announced in it would be about 6 per cent. on bills by 2020, or about 8 per cent. including previous measures. It is important to say that we do not believe there is a low-cost, high-carbon future out there, even if we wanted to pursue it. As we import...