Results 1-5 of 5 for climate change speaker:Angela Smith

Woodhead Rail Route (11 Mar 2008)

Angela Smith: ..., as well as its football team, is often underestimated. The environmental benefits of a Crossrail for the north would be significant. Rightly, there is cross-party consensus in the House on the Climate Change Bill. We need to set targets for the medium and long term to reduce carbon emissions, but in focusing our attention on that legislation, we must not lose sight of the practical...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (Flooding) (6 Dec 2007) has video

Angela Smith: What steps his Department is taking to ensure that measures are put in place to deal with the likely effects of climate change, with particular reference to flooding.

Flood Prevention and Defence (11 Jul 2007)

Angela Smith: ...close to rivers, becks, streams, the sea and the coast need the best possible information and assessments from the Environment Agency. We therefore need a reassessment—perhaps in recognition of climate change—of what the genuine risk may be. That risk needs to be more widely publicised, and we need a debate about the issue. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Climate Change (Taxation) (15 Jun 2006)

Angela Smith: What recent assessment he has made of the impact of the climate change levy on carbon emissions.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Millennium Development Goals (2 Mar 2006)

Angela Smith: ...sustainability, which is one of the millennium development goals? Last week, I visited a secondary school where year 7 and year 9 children pressed on me the importance of development and climate change issues. Of course—