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Economy — Debate (7 May 2009)

Lord Broers: ...stimulus funding and low-carbon obligations. There is an inconvenient truth—not Al Gore's—that most of the methods available to us to reduce carbon dioxide production and meet our climate change obligations are more expensive than those that they replace, and that we are going to have to find huge sums of money to pay the subsidies needed before the private sector will invest...

Climate Change — Debate (29 Jan 2009)

Lord Broers: ...it. I wish to make a general point about the way in which the Government tackle complex engineering and technological issues because it relates to the likelihood of our success in dealing with climate change. It is apparent that over the past four decades we have lost competitiveness in many areas of technology in which we used to be strong and had profitable companies based on home-grown...

Water Management: S&T Report (13 Oct 2006)

Lord Broers: ...to reflect that, in those days long ago when I grew up in Melbourne, there was little concern about water supply. But Australians have realised that their modern way of life, their prosperity and climate change together place demands upon the water supply that are many times more severe than they were in the first half of the 20th century. Things have changed dramatically, and it is well...