Results 1-20 of 63 for climate change speaker:Lord Triesman

Written Answers — House of Lords: Research and Development (29 Oct 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...2006-07 £18.8 million The above figures include support for CO2 sequestration. In addition, the research councils have supported further research relating to energy in the work of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, which has some £15.6 million funding from research councils over 2000-09, and in the work of the UK Energy Research Centre which commenced operation in...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Low-carbon Generation (16 Oct 2007)

Lord Triesman: The Government consider that NESTA's report The Disrupters is helpful in highlighting the key role for technological innovation in tackling climate change. The report provides a useful contribution to the innovation debate, in line with NESTA's mission "to transform the UK's capacity for innovation".

Foreign Policy (21 Jun 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...Nations. Back in 1997, the United Kingdom was still trying to rediscover its international role. I want to be fair to noble Lords who served in successive Conservative Governments. The world was changing rapidly, and coming to terms with it was always difficult. As the Berlin Wall fell the very engine of globalisation, with markets opening and the advent of the internet, revved up to...

Foreign Policy (21 Jun 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...we cannot switch in and out of alliances. It is a characteristic of fashion designers that they follow fashion. I do not think that it is an appropriate way for a political party to work. We have changed the way in which this country conducts its bilateral relationships, and we can see that with many of the significant relationships that have been built with India, Brazil and China, which...

EU: UK Membership (14 Jun 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...to be drawn into a question that is based on a wholly false premise. We face a very different set of challenges today from those of 50 or even of 10 years ago. Globalisation of the world economy, climate change, terrorism and organised crime are just some of the new challenges that we face. We need to work in many multilateral settings, and not least alongside our EU partners and the...

European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill [HL] (8 Jun 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...to work with partners, including EU partners. By doing so, we can achieve much more than we can on our own on some—not all—important issues. I shall not over claim. We can do more on climate change, energy, cross-border crime, counterterrorism and the development of assistance to developing countries. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Howell, that our own aid programme for...

European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill [HL] (8 Jun 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...issues of what we can do together are important. There are excellent examples in the agreements that were reached by the EU leaders in March this year. They agreed a critical package of measures on climate change and energy, which I suspect may well lead in discussions elsewhere in the world, stretching targets for tackling greenhouse gas emissions; agreements to embrace new,...

European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill [HL] (8 Jun 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...point. Of course I am not saying that. However, as you watch the economies and the internal performance of the economies of every nation that has joined the EU, you see that they have taken a step-change leap up in trade arrangements and the value of their exports. It is extremely hard to imagine that this could have happened outside the stability of the arrangements that have been...

Written Answers — House of Lords: EU: Bilateral Meeting with Russia (4 Jun 2007)

Lord Triesman: The EU-Russia summit took place on 17 and 18 May as scheduled and covered a broad agenda, including international issues, trade, climate change and energy. The EU raised human rights. There were no formal conclusions.

Zimbabwe: UN Commission on Sustainable Development (24 May 2007)

Lord Triesman: My Lords, the Minister of State for Climate Change and the Environment and I have already condemned publicly the decision to appoint Zimbabwe as the chair of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. The United Kingdom, with 20 other EU and like-minded states that are members of the commission, voted against Francis Nhema's candidacy. On behalf of all EU member states, including the...

EU and Russia: Samara Summit (23 May 2007)

Lord Triesman: My Lords, the EU-Russia summit was held on 17 and 18 May as planned and covered a broad agenda, including international relations, energy, climate change and trade. The EU raised human rights. The summits are important, as they allow both sides to engage on issues that are important to them, including areas of disagreement.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Zimbabwe: Francis Nhema (21 May 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...a representative from Zimbabwe should become chair as this will have a negative impact on the commission's work and on the commission's credibility. Both I and my honourable friend the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Ian Pearson, on behalf of the Government, have since publicly condemned the decision to appoint a Zimbabwean Minister to this position. Zimbabwe's...

Written Ministerial Statements — House of Lords: EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council (21 May 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...agenda for the European Council on 21 and 22 June. This covers the constitutional treaty, justice and home affairs and economic and social issues, including strengthening police co-operation and climate change. The European Council is also likely to discuss foreign policy issues, such as the European neighbourhood policy and Central Asia. External Relations Black Sea Region The council...

EU: Enlargement (EUC Report) (9 May 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...to Turkey and other countries in the enlargement process. A Turkey anchored in the EU will make all Europe more secure, stable and prosperous. The prospect of membership alone has already brought positive change. In recent years, Turkey has abolished the death penalty and is working hard on a zero-tolerance policy toward torture and on improved rights for women and minority groups,...

Written Answers — House of Lords: EU: Berlin Declaration (19 Apr 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...together. It was right that the event was marked in this way and that the UK was part of that celebration. The declaration identifies, for example, some of the future challenges facing the EU—climate change, energy security, poverty and global terrorism. We welcome this focus on areas of real relevance to the citizens of the EU and that are at the heart of the UK's priorities. Most...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Zimbabwe (21 Mar 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...UK investors to take the Government of Zimbabwe to international arbitration if they illegally expropriated a UK investment. However, to ratify this IPPA the Government of Zimbabwe would need to change their constitution to allow international agreements to take precedence over national law. Current UK investments in Zimbabwe are not protected by international agreement. Our embassy in...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Biodiversity: UK Overseas Territories (8 Feb 2007)

Lord Triesman: In 2001, the Department for International Development (DfID) commissioned a study by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia and the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Greenwich, The Impacts of Global Climate Change on the UK Overseas Territories. In 2005 the Overseas Territories Environment Programme (OTEP), a jointly funded programme of...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (8 Feb 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...to reach a consensus conclusion in 2001 and have not been resurrected. The UK and EU remain ready to support a verification mechanism, but at present there are no signs that the international climate has changed enough to permit universal agreement on verification.

Armed Forces: Nuclear Deterrent (24 Jan 2007)

Lord Triesman: ...of hypocrisy. The noble Lord, Lord Garden, is right to describe the proliferators—potentially Iran and most certainly North Korea—as having obligations but not ones which they would change on the basis that they were attentive to what we are doing rather than their own interests. As states they undertook not to pursue nuclear weapons and to ensure that their civil nuclear...

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (22 Jan 2007)

Lord Triesman: My Lords, both the United Kingdom and the European Union remain ready to support a verification mechanism, but I have to acknowledge that there are no signs that the international climate has changed enough to permit universal agreement on verification. I greatly regret that. That was certainly the case at the review conference, which, as noble Lords will know, operates by consensus. On the...