Results 1-20 of 23 for climate change speaker:Lord Avebury

Climate Change — Question (14 May 2009)

Lord Avebury: My Lords, rises in sea level caused by climate change will disproportionately affect developing countries with low-lying coastal areas, such as Bangladesh, where millions of people would be displaced by a one-metre rise in the sea level. What help are the Government giving to improving the capacity of those countries to deal with climate change and take an active part in the negotiations on it?

EU-Latin America Summit (9 Jun 2008)

Lord Avebury: ...reply to a letter from the group sent before the summit asking it to address matters such as inequalities of wealth and income, damage caused to certain communities by mining developments, and the climate change problem that she mentioned. On that point, is it generally recognised now that the Andean glaciers will disappear by 2050, according to authorities such as the Stern report, which...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Lord Avebury: My Lords, could I ask the Minister to respond to what I said about the national audit committee's report on the overseas territories, which we debated last week? Will the risks from climate change that the overseas territories are said to incur in that report be subject to examination by the Committee on Climate Change?

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Lord Avebury: My Lords, last week we had a very interesting debate on the overseas territories in respect of the National Audit Office's report on risks to the overseas territories, one of which is the risk of climate change, which particularly affects many of them. That is detailed in the report, so I will not go over it again now. I would like to be assured by the Minister when he replies that those...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Lord Avebury: ..., and those words do not appear in the Bill. The right reverend Prelate has also rightly welcomed the speed with which the Government have announced the names of those being appointed to the climate change committee. Some of them—such as Dr Fankhauser, with his knowledge and experience on the World Bank—could be said to have the requisite experience of international...

Climate Change: South-east Africa (10 Mar 2008)

Lord Avebury: My Lords, looking at the situation in Africa over the longer term, does the noble Baroness agree with the estimate made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that as many as 250 million people will be affected by increased water stress by 2020 and that the yields from rain-fed agriculture will be compromised by that? What are we doing to help to adapt and mitigate these changes,...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Lord Avebury: ...of the Committee to the speech made by the Prime Minister when he was Chancellor, in introducing last year's Budget. He said that Britain would lead the way in helping developing countries address climate change and announced a £50 million scheme to prevent the destruction of the largest rainforest in the world, in the Congo basin of central Africa. "Led by Nobel prize winner Wangari...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Lord Avebury: The noble Lords, Lord Rees and Lord May, mentioned engineering as a subject which has not yet been raised as necessary to the expertise of the Committee on Climate Change, and it is a serious omission. Whether it can be corrected by incorporating a requirement for the national authorities to seek advice from the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, or whether it would mean, as...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Guyana: Rainforest (10 Jan 2008)

Lord Avebury: ...preserved from development in return for compensation; and whether a more general mechanism for preventing further exploitation of the world's rainforests should be proposed at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali.

Kenya (4 Dec 2007)

Lord Avebury: ...in aid, 80 per cent of it for health, education, humanitarian assistance and social protection. The remaining 20 per cent supports improved governance, a private-sector development and investment climate, financial sector reform, land and agricultural reform and improved statistics. We provide no poverty budget support at present and DfID says this is because not enough progress has been...

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: 23-25 November 2007 (4 Dec 2007)

Lord Avebury: My Lords, I found the Commonwealth communiqué rather long on aspirations and short on recommendations for concrete action, in particular on climate change, which the Minister mentioned. The so-called Victoria action plan, which he agreed, did not contain any proposals that would alter the individual policies of member states. On the work of the Commonwealth Working Group on Asset...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (27 Nov 2007)

Lord Avebury: ..., I think that there will also have to be a considerable driving force by the public authorities behind the attainment of these targets and, where necessary, compulsion and fiscal disincentives to change harmful behaviour, for which of course this Bill is not the recipe. There is a risk that when we finish this debate at 10 o'clock, we will all go home with a warm glow of self-approval,...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (27 Nov 2007)

Lord Avebury: ...share the burden of reducing global warming along with every other section of industry and society. To add new runways at Heathrow and Stansted just now would show that we are not serious about climate change. My other concern is that the functions of the committee to be appointed under Clause 26 are too narrow, as many noble Lords have said. It should be empowered to offer advice of its...

Climate Change: Bangladesh (22 Nov 2007)

Lord Avebury: My Lords, since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was published last Sunday, have the Government had any bilateral discussions with the Government of Bangladesh on the implications for that country, bearing in mind that the IPCC predicts that on present trends some areas of south Asia will be permanently inundated by 2050? Will the Government seek to agree with Bangladesh...

Debate on the Address (7 Nov 2007)

Lord Avebury: ...it had already been instrumental in arriving at a solution to the North Korean nuclear problem and was being increasingly helpful in other areas of the world; he cited Burma and Darfur. I hope the changes in Chinese policy that he examined will extend to other parts of the world, particularly Zimbabwe, with which China has always had a close relationship. That relationship is increasingly...

Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy (18 Oct 2007)

Lord Avebury: ...of English drinking. There is to be a review of the evidence on the relationship between price, promotion and harm, on which there are abundant data already. The end product to be considered, if necessary, is regulatory change, directed, presumably, at special offers and promotions rather than pricing in general. The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has called for the tax on...

Double Summer Time: Tourism (24 Jan 2007)

Lord Avebury: My Lords, will the Government take advice from their chief scientist on the climate change implications of this proposal?

International Polar Year 2007-08 (15 Jan 2007)

Lord Avebury: ...what will happen in their own areas if they look at the website flood.firetree.net, a great piece of work by Alex Tingle. Much of the scientific work of the International Polar Year will focus on climate change, of which the rise in sea levels is only one of the harmful effects. It is one that may become more accurately predictable through atmosphere-ocean general circulation models such...

Africa: Population Growth (18 Oct 2006)

Lord Avebury: ...8212;and this was also referred to by my noble friend—Uganda's population may treble from 42 million in 2005 to 127 million in 2050. With similar increases in other countries in that region, climate change—which is linked to population increase, as the noble Lord, Lord Jones, remarked, and is likely to reduce agricultural production because of extended desertification, lack of...

Africa: Drought and Famine (16 Feb 2006)

Lord Avebury: ...by DfID to help the international agencies to cope with the immediate effects of this appalling drought, but does the noble Baroness agree that we need a long-term strategy to cope with permanent changes in the climate of the region, which are shown by all the computer models to be going in the direction of higher temperatures and lower rainfalls? Can the noble Baroness tell me, in...