Results 1-20 of 161 for climate change speaker:Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

Energy: National Policy Statements — Statement (9 Nov 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...the need for gas imports, holding them at 2010 levels for the rest of the decade. It is also the right thing to do for our environment, because there is no bigger threat to our countryside than climate change. Even on our ambitious targets for renewables, however, there will be a need, on the estimates that we are publishing today, for additional non-renewable power—we need to use...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Climate Change: Population (6 Nov 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The United Kingdom will not be proposing measures for population control at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen this December.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Ports: Carbon Emissions (6 Nov 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...under the CRC would lie with their tenants. Further examination following the creation of DECC, confirmed that the port was the subject of a utility direction by HMRC for the purposes of the climate change levy in respect of supplies of electricity that it made. The direction was given under the provisions of Finance Act 2000 Schedule 6 paragraph 151(1). So in this instance the port...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Severn Barrage (28 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The Government are currently carrying out a feasibility study to decide, in the context of the UK energy and climate change goals and the alternative options for achieving these, whether Government could support a Severn tidal scheme and if so on what terms. A first public consultation was held between January and April this year to gather views on the scope of the study and which schemes...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Emissions (21 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: As required by the Climate Change Act 2008, the Government will respond to the Committee on Climate Change's first annual progress report by 15 January 2010. The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, published in July 2009, sets out how our carbon budgets and targets for the period 2008 to 2022 will be met. Projections of future emissions published alongside the transition plan show annual...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Carbon Budgets (21 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: As required by the Climate Change Act 2008, the Government will respond to the Committee on Climate Change's first annual progress report by 15 January 2010. Departments with a carbon budget will set out their approach to monitoring delivery of emissions reductions in their forthcoming carbon reduction delivery plans. These will include milestones and indicators against which progress will...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Nuclear Waste (21 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The Energy Act 2008 requires operators of new nuclear power stations to have a funded decommissioning programme, approved by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in place before construction of a new nuclear power station begins and to comply with this programme thereafter. The funded decommissioning programme prepared by the operator of a new...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Nuclear Waste (21 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The Energy Act 2008 requires operators of new nuclear power stations to have a funded decommissioning programme, approved by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in place before construction of a new nuclear power station begins and to comply with this programme thereafter. It is anticipated that operators will request that the Government provide...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Tidal Generation (21 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The Committee on Climate Change considered the potential for a tidal power project in the Severn estuary using information from the Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Study. The report concluded that a Severn tidal project could form part of a clearly affordable low-carbon strategy if other options (such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and other renewables) were not available. The...

Energy: Sustainability — Question (13 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My Lords, the report of the Committee on Climate Change is very important. It was published yesterday, and the Government will consider it very carefully and respond in due course. I believe that the policies that we have set out and are embarking upon do, indeed, represent a step change. The very fact that we have set a target that renewable energy should be responsible for 30 per cent of...

Written Ministerial Statements — House of Lords: Climate Change (12 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The UK Climate Change Act makes the UK the first country to set a long-term legal framework for reducing emissions over the next four decades. The Act has demonstrated decisive international leadership, showing the UK is committed to taking up its responsibility for reducing global emissions. As part of this commitment, Government will introduce the carbon reduction commitment, an energy...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Energy: Meters (5 Oct 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...on energy usage, helping people to manage their energy demand and bills. The rollout of smart meters will be an important step towards development of a smart grid. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) published a consultation document on 11 May covering a range of issues to be addressed in deciding how smart meters should be rolled out, including the minimum functionality...

Written Ministerial Statements — House of Lords: Marine Environment: Radioactive Discharges (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...on progress in achieving the aims of the 1998 strategy. Today, an updated strategy for radioactive discharges (the first having been published in 2002) was published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The UK discharges strategy forms our national report on progress and will be presented at the next OSPAR ministerial meeting in 2010. The UK strategy is available via the DECC...

Electricity and Gas (Community Energy Saving Programme) Order 2009: Motion to Approve (15 Jul 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...showing what households are paying towards energy efficiency schemes. He may recall that we debated this very fully last autumn, although I forget whether we were debating the Energy Bill or the Climate Change Bill. We continue to explore with suppliers the best way to strengthen consumers' awareness of these issues. I have no disagreement with him in terms of the principle. The Government...

Electricity and Gas (Community Energy Saving Programme) Order 2009: Motion to Approve (15 Jul 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...and did not expect him to support the Government's policies in this direction. In that sense, I was not disappointed. He was right to raise the cost of these measures and of what might be described as other climate change measures, how that pans out in bills and what the consumer will have to pay. The figures that he referred to were right, but these costs are one-off, and the benefits...

Electricity and Gas (Community Energy Saving Programme) Order 2009: Motion to Approve (15 Jul 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...around 1 million households assisted in the past year alone. However, we need to keep increasing our efforts if we are to help the most vulnerable in society and to meet our security of supply and climate change goals. As part of this, we consulted earlier on a proposal to increase the CERT obligation on energy suppliers. This consultation received substantial support for an increase, and...

Energy: Low Carbon Transition Plan — Statement (15 Jul 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My Lords, it showed a commitment among the G8 countries to take action towards ensuring that climate change does not increase by more than 2 degrees centigrade. I think that that is significant. It gives me optimism for agreement in Copenhagen. I should also say to the noble Lord—he will not like it when I mention the noble Lord, Lord Stern, because he does not agree with the noble...

Energy: Low Carbon Transition Plan — Statement (15 Jul 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My Lords, I take the noble Lord's point about morality, but the reality is that climate change is one of the most critical issues that we face. That is why it is so important. I know that the noble Lord is not convinced of the science. He is perhaps not alone in this House. I am certainly not unaware of those views, but the overwhelming scientific consensus—the work of the IPCC—is...

Energy: Low Carbon Transition Plan — Statement (15 Jul 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...on the question of science, I can really only repeat what I said to the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart. The main advice that we take comes from the IPCC. The evidence that the IPCC has assembled is that climate change is indeed a phenomenon that is happening and that much of it is indeed manmade. It is on that basis that we are bringing forward these policies. On the question of the cost of the...

Energy: Low Carbon Transition Plan — Statement (15 Jul 2009)

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Not really, my Lords. Talking about Treasury hypothecation usually lands Ministers in trouble. There are two points to be made. First, as was debated during proceedings on the Energy Bill and the Climate Change Bill, it is important that there should be transparency. That is why we have been very clear about what we believe to be the additional costs that householders will have to pay as a...