Results 1-20 of 397 for climate change speaker:Greg Clark

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

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, column 401W, on departmental conferences, what the cost to his Department was of the (a) regional delivery of biomass heat and power conference on 29 October 2008, (b) London meeting of international energy and oil Ministers on 18 and 19 December 2008, (c) hydrogen...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Greg Clark: ...Government are pursuing and this House, so that there can be no suggestion that that is in any way at risk in the negotiations. Indeed, there has long been agreement on both sides of the House that climate change poses a real and urgent risk, both to the UK and to the world. Some 20 years ago this week, on 8 November 1989, Mrs. Thatcher addressed the UN General Assembly on the need to...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Greg Clark: ...up speech the Minister will apprise us of its construction. I think that we are all agreed that it needs to be adequate to the task of helping countries that will be affected by the consequences of climate change to defend themselves and to adapt to that inevitability. The question of what that figure should be is pertinent. It is impossible for me to say from the Dispatch Box precisely...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Greg Clark: I hope that the hon. Lady is not trying to sow dissent and concern where they do not exist. My party in this country and in its European alliances is completely committed to tackling climate change. In fact, we regard it as one of the essential competences of the EU. There is no difference there. Many of our allies have some of the best records in Europe. Greenpeace in the Netherlands cited...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Greg Clark: ...like that. I believe that the low-carbon industries should be at the centre of a clear and deliberate British industrial policy in the years ahead. That is another reason why Britain needs a strong climate deal to be struck at Copenhagen. Like the Secretary of State, I am confident that a deal is possible. It is usual, and probably prudent, in advance of major negotiations for people to be...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Greg Clark: ...having agreed to help alleviate the poverty of various countries, we were then to find that an additional problem came along and made us forget about that agreement. There needs to be a recognition that climate change is an additional challenge that requires additional help.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Greg Clark: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that point, and I agree with his analysis. If we regard climate change as a new and additional problem, we need new and additional resources to tackle it. In that regard, I do not understand fully how the figure of 10 per cent. has been arrived at. I know that the Secretary of State wants to be rigorous, but it seems a suspiciously round number. How can...

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

Greg Clark: For more than 20 years Britain has had a record of leadership on climate change, and that leadership will be vital at Copenhagen. Everyone at Copenhagen should know that there is complete unity of purpose between us on this issue, and that we need to achieve a deal that proves equal to the challenge of climate change. Does the Secretary of State agree that the principles of such a deal are...

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

Greg Clark: ...be worth having, it must be consistent with what science demands, namely a global warming limit of 2°. I also believe that the deal must help the world's poorest people to cope with the effects of climate change, that it must be in addition to, not instead of, fighting their current poverty, and that it must involve immediate action to halt the destruction of the rain forest. Does the...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (27 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the breakdown is of Government spending on renewable energy estimated in the Pre-Budget Report to be £5.8 billion over the period of the Comprehensive Spending Review.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sellafield (22 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether (a) his Department and (b) the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has contracts with (i) Nuclear Management Partners and (ii) Sellafield Ltd. on the management of the Sellafield site.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sellafield (22 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether (a) his Department and (b) the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority expect to receive fees from (i) Nuclear Management Partners and (ii) Sellafield Ltd. in relation to the management of the Sellafield site.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Buildings: Energy (16 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificate and (b) advisory report for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) the Coal Authority, (ii) the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, (iii) the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, (iv) the Advisory Committee on Carbon...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Winter Fuel Payments (12 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent discussions her Department has had with the Department of Energy and Climate Change on the winter fuel payment scheme.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Franco-British Nuclear Forum (12 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the Franco-British Nuclear Forum remains operational.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewables Advisory Board (12 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2009, Official Report, column 709W, on the Renewables Advisory Board, when he expects to finalise the Renewables Advisory Board budget for 2009-10.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon and Energy Saving Trusts (12 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) pursuant to the answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, columns 399-400W, on the Carbon Trust: public relations, if he will ask the Board of the Carbon Trust to publish details of payments it has made to (a) Fishburn Hedges, (b) Grayling Political Strategy, (c) Weber Shandwick Public Affairs and (d) Citigate Public...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions (12 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions attributable to from the Carbon Trust's local authority carbon management programme.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Reduction Commitment (12 Oct 2009)

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of the amount of revenue which will arise from the sale of allowances through the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme in each of the next five years.