Results 1-20 of 25 for climate change speaker:Baroness Morgan of Drefelin

Higher Education (26 Jun 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...of higher education. He signalled a desire to develop a 10 to 15 year framework for the future of higher education, which is why today's debate has been so helpful. The higher education sector is changing rapidly in an international context. We know that other countries are developing fast. For example, the number of Chinese graduates tripled between 2001 and 2006 to more than 3.5 million...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...requires the Government to publish, for every year of the budget period, a detailed emissions statement. This will set out the facts on how much progress is being made. Every year the Committee on Climate Change will lay a progress report before Parliament under Clause 28 which will give the committee's views on the progress being made towards meeting the budgets and the 2050 target, and...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: My Lords, perhaps I may quickly respond. We need to be clear that when we are asking the Committee on Climate Change—as we have all agreed, an extremely important and high-profile committee—to make an assessment of whether the government targets are likely to be met, we are asking that committee to use all its expertise, and we have debated in great detail what that expertise...

Written Ministerial Statements — House of Lords: Science: Nanotechnologies (28 Feb 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...offer potentially huge benefits to society, industry, health and the environment. They can help us to improve our quality of life and respond to some of the key issues of the day, such as climate change. The Government's aim is for the UK to derive maximum benefit from these new technologies and their products. However, this must be done in a way that safeguards health, safety and the...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (4 Feb 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...that the amendment is probing at a wider concern, so I will not labour that. Amendment No. 188 would commence Part 2 on the day that the Act is passed. It would mean that the Committee on Climate Change becomes a statutory body on that date. I understand that noble Lords want to see the committee operational as soon as possible. However, there are practical reasons why the Government have...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (30 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...have in place a strategy that they had agreed with local retailers to minimise packaging. That is an important part of the jigsaw. However, we believe that the levers for bringing about meaningful changes in packaging levels lie primarily at national and international levels, not at a local level. That is not to undermine the efforts that could be made locally, but we do not see the need...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (23 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...that the mythology that was mentioned did not affect the monitor for too long; the monitor suggested for a time that we were debating the Children and Young Persons Bill, but we have come back to climate change now. I congratulate the noble Baroness on initiating this important debate and I hope that I can give noble Lords a reassuring reply. The Government see these issues as being...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...David Miliband to the Joint Committee, as the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, started to do. In particular, my right honourable friend said: "I think it is frankly inconceivable that fundamental changes like that would be smuggled in under these provisions. To have a clause excluding them seems politically odd to me ... there would be quite big technical issues about drafting an exclusionary...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...my hands during that discussion. I hope that I can offer the noble Earl enough reassurance to allow him to withdraw his amendment. In order to fulfil its functions under the Bill, the Committee on Climate Change may need to undertake other activities such as commissioning research or entering into contracts. Clause 31, to which these amendments relate, gives the committee the power to do...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...friend that the Bill is designed to ensure that Members of the House of Commons, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly are not allowed to be members of the Committee on Climate Change. Therefore, this probing amendment is very helpful because it gives me the opportunity to clarify that point.

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...use of the House of Commons Disqualification Act, which does not apply to the House of Lords. This means that Members of the House of Lords would be able to become members of the Committee on Climate Change. Paragraph 28 of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 applies in this case and therefore does not disqualify Members of the House of Lords. Members of the House...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...done in developing public engagement could provide some very interesting lessons for the secretariat. We have also been engaged in very important debates about the independence of the Committee on Climate Change; with that in mind, I will make a few points. I stress that we want to consider Amendment No. 140, which calls for the committee to ensure effective public participation in...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...to stress that we need to be clear about the kind of public engagement that we are talking about, and as regards whether we are talking about public engagement undertaken by the Committee on Climate Change or government consultation on new policies in the light of that committee's advice. That is why we are taking this away to think about it. We do not want to muddle the various roles. The...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...of other points that were made in the debate. As we have heard, paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 sets out the circumstances in which the national authorities may remove a member from the Committee on Climate Change. I should like to point out that this is a power which we would expect to be exercised only in exceptional circumstances, but it is important to make sure that the Committee on Climate...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (8 Jan 2008)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...carbon budgets are about achieving a direction of travel and setting a trajectory towards the 2050 target. What we cannot say is that a target should be met in each budget period, because then the Climate Change Committee, the Secretary of State and all those concerned would not be able to take into account all the factors to which the noble Lord alludes. I support the sentiment behind the...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (17 Dec 2007)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: I hope to change that sense of a lack of urgency. When I listen to this debate, I think about how old I might be in 2050; I look forward to being 89. I also remind myself that my daughter will be 58 and I hope very much to have some grandchildren, who will be, perhaps, in their thirties. When we start to think about climate change and how we are going to make really quite radical changes to...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Dec 2007)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...of the Food Standards Agency to meet in public. He has an interest in ensuring that we learn the lessons from the experience of that agency. I will quickly pick up on a few points. The Committee on Climate Change and the devolved Administrations will be subject to the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations. The public will be able to request information...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Dec 2007)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...has stated, the evidence now suggests that developed countries may have to reduce their emissions by as much as 80 per cent if we are to have an effective international agreement that will tackle climate change. That is why we have announced that we will ask the Committee on Climate Change to report on whether the 2050 target should be tightened up to 80 per cent. The Government are...

Greater London Authority Bill (26 Jun 2007)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: My Lords, the point we are trying to make here is that we see carbon dioxide as the key greenhouse gas which we want the Mayor's climate change strategy to tackle. We recognise the importance of other greenhouse gases and want to give the Mayor the flexibility to address them. We want him to report on progress, addressing not just carbon dioxide but also other greenhouse gases. As I do not...

Greater London Authority Bill (26 Jun 2007)

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: ...Clause 41, page 42, line 44, at end insert— "( ) In subsection (3) above "other significant greenhouse substances" means substances (other than carbon dioxide)— (a) which contribute to climate change, and(b) which the Mayor considers it appropriate to deal with in the strategy." Clause 41, page 42, line 44, at end insert— "( ) In performing the duty under subsection...