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Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill: Second Reading (13 Oct 2009)

Lord Giddens: My Lords, as the author of a recent book on the politics of climate change, one cannot stress too strongly that climate change is not a left/right issue. We see in the United States the danger of what happens when it does become a polarised issue, where President Obama's climate change Bill runs the risk of not even passing through the Senate. Here there is a pleasing degree of political...

Climate Change — Debate (29 Jan 2009)

Lord Giddens: ...of Madingley, on securing this debate and on the elegant and powerful manner in which he introduced it. I want to take seriously the title of the debate—the political aspects of addressing climate change—and argue that climate change is a political problem like no other that we have had to face before. There are many reasons for that, but I shall mention just two primarily. One...

Retirement — Question for Short Debate (13 Jan 2009)

Lord Giddens: ...people should be able to work as long as they wanted to work, given the normal conditions that apply to people of any age. It caused a furious confrontation. Since then, things have moved on. The climate of opinion in Europe and in this country has changed substantially, and the policy of that union has been reversed. In Europe, we have had the equal treatment framework directive, and in...

Arms Trade Treaty (15 May 2008)

Lord Giddens: ...of Essex, hence his title. He has had an enormous personal impact on the evolution of thinking about the possibility of the treaty. As someone who is deeply immersed in writing a book about climate change and energy security, I see interesting similarities between attempts to establish international agreements on climate change post-Kyoto and post-Bali and attempts to establish an arms...

Debate on the Address (13 Nov 2007)

Lord Giddens: My Lords, I should also like to discuss aspects of the Climate Change Bill, and let begin by saying that I was heartened by two themes of the opening speeches. The first is that, in terms of its implications, the Climate Change Bill is the most far-reaching for this country and indeed for the rest of the world than any of the clutter of Bills under consideration. The second is that there is...

Debate on the Address (15 Nov 2006)

Lord Giddens: ...and protection. I do not want to hammer the theme of economists too much, but I remind noble Lords that it is an economist, Sir Nicholas Stern, who has just produced the definitive report on climate change. The Prime Minister has described this report as the most important one to be produced during his period of office. Again, there are some sceptics when it comes to climate...

Climate Change (EAC Report) (14 Jul 2006)

Lord Giddens: ...is eminently practical in its implications. In our society today—indeed, throughout the world—we are having to deal with the ripple of two types of intersecting shock. One is certainly climate change shock. For a long while, climate change seemed to many people to be a kind of abstract thing for the future—a possibility that was continuously disputed within certain...

Universities: Bureaucracy (24 Nov 2005)

Lord Giddens: ..., but when I got there the governance institution was made up of 100 people who formed the court of governance. That was not the most dynamic way to run an institution that has to deal with rapid changes, but we reformed that, and we now have a council of just over 20 people who supply much more dynamic direction to the university, and that has happened with most universities in the...

Weapons of Mass Destruction (EUC Report) (14 Jul 2005)

Lord Giddens: ...The proliferation of nuclear weapons is one of the most serious threats faced by the world today. It is not just a short-term threat but also a long-term one. In my mind, it is right up there with climate change and ecological issues. It is not hyperbole and it is not exaggeration to say that. We all know that the category of weapons of mass destruction is a loose one. Chemical weapons can...