Results 1-20 of 24 for climate change speaker:Lord Puttnam

Climate Projections — Statement (18 Jun 2009)

Lord Puttnam: ...on something that the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, said. There is a need for a broader, more holistic take on all this. I have no doubt in my mind that the initial impact on the UK will come from climate change migrants and refugees. That will be the first time that this issue comes home in a very serious way. It would be good to know what the Government's policies are in that respect and...

Parliament and the Public — Question for Short Debate (16 Jun 2009)

Lord Puttnam: ...powers". That leaves me with a simple question. Does anyone think it likely that respect for Parliament will be enhanced by removing from parliamentary scrutiny of, for example, issues affecting climate change, the noble Lords, Lord Turner, Lord May, Lord Rees, Lord Stern, Lord Oxburgh, and others who have devoted half a lifetime to this specialist subject area? Of course, I could have...

Queen's Speech — Debate (6th Day) (11 Dec 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...McColl. For three years, from 2002-05, in my capacity as president of UNICEF UK, I did almost nothing but deal with issues revolving around child trafficking—usually child sex trafficking. It changes you; it changes you a great deal as it is shattering. It left me with two overwhelming feelings. I have a problem even saying this but it left me with a kind of disgust at my own sex....

Energy Bill (21 May 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...privatisation on the grounds of consumer protection. Needless to say, regulation has been in a fairly constant process of evolution, as the individual sectors have evolved or, in some cases, even changed out of all recognition. However, regulation is still failing to keep up with the pace of change. Some regulatory lag is perhaps inevitable. None the less, I am of the view that at the...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (31 Mar 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...per cent of our recommendations have been accepted and incorporated in the Bill that will now go to the other end of the corridor. That is not a bad day's work. I think we would all agree that the Climate Change Bill cannot succeed in a purely party political environment. We are in this together and we will succeed or fail together. As the Bill passes to the other place, and in every sense...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (18 Mar 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...because I feel it myself from time to time. In a speech made in Japan last week, the former Prime Minister Tony Blair said the following: "We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change ... failure to act on climate change now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible ... the scale of what is needed is so great that the purpose of any global action is not to...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...was certainly not my intention, as one of the people who put their name to this amendment, that the sub-committee would report to Parliament. The sub-committee, in my mind, reports to a sovereign climate change committee and, only through the climate change committee, to Parliament. That is a very important distinction.

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...between the issues of content and adaptation are really quite remarkable. Both require a type of specialist knowledge that would need to be accommodated in a single significantly larger climate change committee, which is something that none of us wishes to see happen. To seriously address measures of adaptation in the UK, any statutory sub-committee would have to be very much...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...who suggested that I have been somewhat lyrical. I took my tone entirely from the Prime Minister's speech on 19 November, which could hardly have been more lyrical. In it, he said that overcoming climate change must be one of the great projects of this generation. I deliberately elided the concept of trust with the amendment. At the end of the Prime Minister's speech, he said that he...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...the overall rationale for the Bill. The noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, put his finger on this in one of our committee deliberations when he observed that this is not a carbon trading Bill; it is the Climate Change Bill, which happens to include a provision on carbon trading. The Joint Committee probably spent more time discussing the trading of carbon credits than any other single issue. On...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (25 Feb 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...happy with it—the Minister said that matters which affect the behaviour of people in this country must remain issues of primary legislation and should not be devolved to decisions made by the climate change committee or to secondary legislation. Is that what he said?

Climate Change Bill [HL] (25 Feb 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...and I thought that we came out at exactly the right place, for all the reasons set out by the noble Lord, Lord Taylor. The amendment is inappropriate because this is the golden opportunity for the climate change committee to establish itself. Furthermore, it will not have escaped your Lordships' notice that this Bill, which affects every person in this country, is going through this House...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (23 Jan 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...between September 1939 and December 1940. I remember asking my mother when I was a child how she dealt with that. The truth was that she dealt with at least half of that through adaptation—changing the way in which we lived. Our family standard of living did not fall by 50 per cent, it probably fell by, let us say, 20 per cent. I suspect that this might well be the general experience...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...years before; there was an awareness of the dangers, and the need to move swiftly. Adaptation will be expensive and complicated, and will involve people and expertise quite unlike those of the climate change committee itself. It is going to be a very important part of the Bill and I can only hope that we learn from the experiences of the past. We must take on board many of the actions...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...popular. It was a constant refrain in our committee's discussions that it was important that the Government had support for, and sometimes could even hide behind, unpopular recommendations from the climate change committee. As I have listened to the progress of this Committee stage, I have genuinely come to believe that the Government may well be climbing on to the horns of a dilemma. The...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Lord Puttnam: .... We decided last September to commission a report from Dr Catherine Cameron—one of the advisers to the noble Lord, Lord Stern, in the preparation of his report—on the likely impact of climate change on children in the developing world. It will be published in the spring and I suspect that it will make fairly grim reading. I know that my noble friend Lord Clinton-Davies did not...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Lord Puttnam: ...it cannot be said often enough that this is an international Bill. We are taking an international stance. We in UNICEF UK have taken a world lead in looking scientifically at the likely impact of climate change on young children around the world. I am enormously proud of that, and I hope the Committee is as well.

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Lord Puttnam: In responding to the issue of the size of the climate change committee, will the Minister indicate whether he sees measures of adaptation as part of the committee's remit? If so, the size of the committee as currently proposed is almost certainly inadequate. I would suggest that the adaptation issues are of a different order, requiring different skills and different expertise, and that they...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (17 Dec 2007)

Lord Puttnam: ...we had now reached a stage of maturity in our democracy where, if such sectoral targets exist within government, they have no reason whatever not to be made available, certainly to the Committee on Climate Change and through that committee on an annual basis to Parliament. On that basis alone, I support this suite of amendments.

Climate Change Bill [HL] (17 Dec 2007)

Lord Puttnam: ...This type of tautology frightens the life out of me. Will he help me with my slight crisis and go to the extent of using the words "the majority"? Would the Government be prepared to instruct the climate change committee that the majority of carbon savings would be achieved from domestic action? I stress that because successive Governments will come under the hammer on this. Getting...