Results 1-20 of 35 for climate change speaker:Lord Judd

Economy — Debate (7 May 2009)

Lord Judd: ...part of our system. But it is only part of our system. How does the market on its own meet satisfactorily—and I do not see the evidence that it does—the challenges of the environment, climate change, security and third-world poverty? In talking of level playing fields, we have to recognise that many countries in the third world have to be helped to become fit enough to take...

Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [HL]: Report (Second Day) (Continued) (23 Mar 2009)

Lord Judd: ...respect. The national parks cover many administrative boundaries within a region. This enables them to take a wider perspective, which is helpful in addressing strategic planning issues such as climate change. It also means that it would prove extremely difficult for the interests of the national parks to be adequately represented by the local authorities sitting on the leaders' boards. In...

Immigration (EAC Report) (14 Nov 2008)

Lord Judd: ...to keep our preoccupation with extremism and terrorism in our minds all the time because that is highly relevant to whether we contain the situation and win the battle for a decent society. Like climate change, there is no way, in my view, in which this can be solved in a national context alone. Again, I do not find it altogether helpful to conduct analysis simply within the context of the...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Environment: Energy Plants (12 Nov 2008)

Lord Judd: asked Her Majesty's Government: How the Department of Energy and Climate Change will ensure that decisions on the siting of energy plant, infrastructure and distribution systems accord priority to social, conservation, heritage and landscape considerations.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Water Projects (10 Nov 2008)

Lord Judd: asked Her Majesty's Government: What priority the Department of Energy and Climate Change will give to small-scale community and hamlet projects and to small-scale water projects.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Geothermal Projects (4 Nov 2008)

Lord Judd: asked Her Majesty's Government: What priority the Department of Energy and Climate Change will give to geothermal projects and development.

Planning Bill (15 Jul 2008)

Lord Judd: ...important, qualitatively good place to live and to leave to our grandchildren. A strong, sustainable economy is essential to underpin it, but this is obviously complicated by the new realities of climate change and the challenges surrounding energy and power. That is well illustrated as we move towards a new generation of nuclear energy by the imperative that we should do so only having...

Pensions Bill (10 Jul 2008)

Lord Judd: ...significant. Responsible investors work with corporations to help them to future-proof their profits by, for example, limiting the negative consequences of poor governance, lax safety standards or climate change for their business. Before concluding, I should identify the limits to my amendments. They do not propose that institutional shareholders should have free rein in making investment...

Pensions Bill (3 Jun 2008)

Lord Judd: ...investment. Almost every major institutional investor and international organisation has had to consider the promotion of good governance, sustainable development, human rights protection and climate change. This is in response to rapid growth in transnational corporate activity and recent scandals. Many companies of course have extensive operations around the world. Sadly all too often we...

Africa: Conflict (13 Dec 2007)

Lord Judd: ...economic and social hope and the engagement of the population as a whole in security sector reform. It will not be easy, as the pressures of population and land issues are compounded by water shortages and climate change. What is striking about the collective experience of a wide cross-section of frontline NGOs is their concern about the opportunist arms trade that fuels conflict and armed...

Poverty and Governance (11 Jan 2007)

Lord Judd: ...the extremists. Talk of level playing fields can be provocative. In the real world, people and nations have to be helped to stand up and to get fit before they are even able to begin playing. With climate change, the poorest are already suffering acutely from coastal flooding, submerging islands and appalling drought. On this, the sentiments of the White Paper must rapidly be turned into...

International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Bill (29 Jun 2006)

Lord Judd: ..., so that we are not inadvertently pulling against each other but are always together trying to ensure that we are pulling alongside the governments of the developing world. There are the issues of climate change, and all that we are trying to do in the third world can very rapidly be undone by what is happening in the context of climate change, which hits poor economies particularly hard...

Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill (25 May 2006)

Lord Judd: ...the Friends of the Lake District, which represents CPRE in the whole of Cumbria, and as the vice-president of the Council for National Parks. It is impossible to over-emphasise the significance of climate change and increasing energy dependency, not least on unpredictable and unstable Russia and its surrounding territories. They are among the most acutely challenging issues of our age....

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill (8 Feb 2006)

Lord Judd: ...that it is a strong amendment. It seems to me that it is too generalised. If we are really concerned about the root causes of the challenge to what is happening to biodiversity—we have heard climate change mentioned several times—the duty on all public authorities should be to combat global warming. Then we would be dealing with the origins of the problem rather than the...

Climate Change (18 Oct 2005)

Lord Judd: My Lords, will my noble friend agree that however real and dangerous the threat of global terrorism, as matters stand, the consequences of climate change are likely to bring about far more death, suffering, displacement of people and economic damage than terrorism ever will? Will my noble friend agree that a priority for us all must be to persuade our friends and allies that they must give to...

Terrorism (29 Jun 2005)

Lord Judd: .... And these words are leading us down to the wrong concept". He reportedly added that providing doctors, engineers and other aid was, "more important than capturing and killing people". Although climate change will do more human, economic and social damage than terrorism ever will, I do not want to argue that there is no terrorist threat. There obviously is, and I regard it as the first...

Bangladesh (15 Sep 2004)

Lord Judd: My Lords, does my noble friend agree that the latest appalling experience in Bangladesh is a grave indication of the cost to the poorest people in the world if we do not get climate change under control? Does it not increase the responsibility of industrialised countries, such as our own, to commit themselves to the most effective policies possible in stopping the generation of global warming?

International Self-Defence (21 Apr 2004)

Lord Judd: ...to react could be incalculably great. But I would argue that in the greater cause historically of the sustainable rule of law across the world as a whole, it is more important than ever that any changes in the rule of law are approached honestly, in a considered and balanced way, through political debate at international level so that international consensus is built behind what is being...

Ethiopia (21 Nov 2002)

Lord Judd: ...fitness to play on those level playing fields? Does she further agree that the tragic situation underlines the importance of the previous Question by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Chesterton. Unless climate change is brought under control, we shall be confronted with worse disasters throughout Africa in the future?

Marine Wildlife Conservation Bill (21 Jun 2002)

Lord Judd: ...of marine mammals by toxins and the disappearance of natural sea defences such as wetlands. Other signs of stress include the build-up of radioactive substances in sediment, the impact of sex-changing chemicals on marine life, threats to human health and cultural heritage and changes in sea condition as a result of climate change. The Bill will be judged by its effectiveness in helping to...