Results 1-11 of 11 for climate change speaker:Baroness Sharp of Guildford

Motion to Take Note (12 Dec 2008)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...on to another committee, which has been looking at the EU emissions trading system and produced its report earlier this week. We argued that we should be tough and not let the EU run away from its climate change obligations and that we should stick by our targets. It is significant that waste management contributes to helping to fulfil our responsibilities under those CO2 targets. As I...

Queen's Speech — Debate (3rd Day) (8 Dec 2008)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: .... In addition, R&D budgets for departments have been raided on a number of occasions. The BERR budget was raided for £68 million to fund retraining and redeployment at Rover. The Defra R&D budget, vital to our climate change challenges, was raided to pay for the disastrous mistakes made in the new agricultural support programme. Can we have an assurance that this will not...

Education and Skills Bill (21 Jul 2008)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...system that supports economic growth in a low-carbon world. The strategy proposes five tests that should be applied to judge transport projects: improving economic competitiveness; addressing climate change; protecting safety, security and health; improving the quality of life; and promoting greater equality of opportunity. More effective home-to-education transport for 16 to 19 year-olds...

EU: Emissions Trading Schemes (7 Jun 2007)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...that the White Paper issued a couple of weeks ago made it clear that the Emissions Trading Scheme is the carbon price instrument of choice and a key component in the UK's policy framework to fight climate change. Given the weight that the Government are putting on the Emissions Trading Scheme, are they confident that, in the new round, the national allocations not just to the UK but to the...

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

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...present levels of demand for surface water and ground water are unsustainable. We are abstracting more from the rivers and aquifers in the dry months than we are putting back in the rainy months. Climate change is not going to make this problem any easier because we shall have more dry months in the summer and more heavy storms in the winter and what fills the aquifers is the steady drip,...

Energy Efficiency (S&T Report) (27 Apr 2006)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...big increase in transport has been aviation and it remains a scandal that aviation fuel is untaxed. Of the areas that the committee looked at, we start with the Prime Minister's statement in 2004 that climate change is, "the world's greatest environmental challenge", which is, "so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive powers, that it alters radically human...

Renewable Energy (S&T Report) (23 Jun 2005)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...influence on government policy. As all noble Lords who have spoken have made clear, the focus of this report on renewable energy emerged from the White Paper and from the urgency of the agenda for climate change. As the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, indicated, if this planet is to survive we cannot go on as we are. We have to cut back on carbon emissions and greenhouse gas emissions. It is...

Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech (25 May 2005)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...which we have just passed, provides for fast tracking foundation status for secondary schools. Primary schools can be given the fast track by amending the regulations under Section 35—schools changing from one category to another—of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. New providers can and do enter the maintained system under the provisions of Section 28 of the School...

Climate Change (9 Feb 2004)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...of some of the developments that are taking place in his own diocese, among others, and raising wider matters for us to think about. One of the conclusions that we can draw from the debate is that climate change is for real. Despite people sometimes wondering over the past 25 years whether we are merely experiencing a little variation in the ice ages, the speeches we heard from the noble...

Government Investment and Planning (26 Jan 2004)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ..., rather than decreasing? Have not the R&D budgets of most government departments fallen dramatically over the past 20 years? In particular, would he comment on the budget of Defra, which, despite climate change and the many challenges facing the industry, has been falling extremely quickly?

Universities (21 Mar 2001)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: .... In Oxbridge the tutorial system continues, and that is one of the advantages of that sector. However, it also costs a lot more. It was natural to look much more closely at teaching methods. Those changes took place simultaneously with other changes in the 1980s. It was a time when public expenditure was being squeezed enormously and the public and government demanded value for money. As...