Results 1-16 of 16 for climate change speaker:Tim Farron

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

Tim Farron: In supporting the motion, I shall restrict my comments exclusively to the Government's failure to demonstrate leadership over climate change when it comes to our food market and reducing food miles. The world's population is set to increase by 50 per cent. over the next 40 years. Demand for food is set to double in that time, yet the Government have presided over a criminal reduction in this...

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

Tim Farron: ..., but that will be the result of work done by the local community, and despite the Government. In conclusion, nearly everyone—apart from one or two of the Tories' mates—now accepts that climate change is real and the result of human activity. However, if that is the case, it can be reversed by human activity as well, with "activity" being the important word. It is important...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power (12 Oct 2009)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of the average annual level of carbon dioxide emissions produced by a nuclear power plant in the UK.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power (16 Sep 2009)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment he has made of the efficiency of high burn-up fuel used in nuclear power plants.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Food (29 Jun 2009)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what percentage of the (a) meat, (b) fruit and (c) vegetables procured by his Department in the last 12 months was produced in the UK.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (24 Jun 2009)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department is taking to meet the Government's 2010 target to eradicate fuel poverty in (a) vulnerable households with a disabled person and (b) all vulnerable households.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Written Questions: Government Responses (24 Jun 2009)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he plans to answer Question 241930, on fuel poverty, tabled on 4 December 2008.

Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]: Rural Communities (Recession) (15 Jun 2009) has video

Tim Farron: ...on housing and other parts of the economy is palpable and seriously damaging. Let us have a renewal in agriculture, too. With farm incomes under threat as never before, and with the challenge of climate change facing every one of us, we must ensure that the new deal for the countryside has an unmistakably green tinge. We could extend carbon trading to enable large corporations to offset...

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair] — Honey Bee Health (29 Apr 2009)

Tim Farron: ...squirrel effect, for example. To what extent are we losing bees due to native species being forced out by more aggressive foreign bees? There are other factors. For instance, there is the threat of climate change, including the effect of wet weather on mating patterns and on preventing bees from foraging for enough nectar and pollen to see them through the winter months. All those...

Livestock Industry (Climate Change) (25 Mar 2009)

Tim Farron: ...used for livestock farming at the moment is unusable for other farming purposes, such as crops, and that much farm land, particularly in the uplands, is vital to carbon sequestration and fighting climate change from that angle? Furthermore, with £10.2 billion of food being wasted in the UK every year, does she accept that now is the time for serious investment in anaerobic digestion,...

Livestock Industry (Climate Change) (25 Mar 2009)

Tim Farron: ...has been destroyed to create pasture land, so that livestock can be reared over there and exported here, so will she not accept that a strong British livestock sector is a powerful way of combating climate change, because it ensures that we reduce the amount of miles involved in getting food from the field to the plate?

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations (10 Mar 2009)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will review his Department's policy on the construction of new nuclear power stations; and if he will make a statement.

Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]: British Agriculture and Food Labelling (24 Feb 2009) has video

Tim Farron: ...face the problem of the produce of other countries gaining a competitive advantage from lower standards. Equalisation of standards across the EU to British levels is crucial if we are to tackle climate change, improve animal welfare standards and give our farmers the benefit that they deserve for taking the lead in ethical food production. But the Government are wrong if they think that...

Safe Water (Developing Countries) (19 Mar 2008)

Tim Farron: ...people without access to sanitation increased from 335 million at the beginning of the 1990s to 440 million just three years ago. That is outrageous, but it is not the only threat that we face, because climate change threatens access to clean water, too. The UN estimates that as things stand, by 2080 an additional 1.8 billion could live in a water-scarce environment. The challenge is huge...

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Free-range Produce (Animal Welfare) (4 Mar 2008)

Tim Farron: ...buy free range. Interestingly, recent research has shown that consumers were about five times more interested in animal welfare standards in the production of food products than about the impact on climate change. I make no editorial comment about that—it is just an observation. The top end of the market is a minority one, not least because, unlike the average television chef, most...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (25 Jul 2006)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment his Department has made of the implications of climate change for rural areas; and what plans his Department has to help areas to respond to these implications.