Results 1-6 of 6 for climate change speaker:Lord Turnbull

Department of Energy and Climate Change (16 Oct 2008)

Lord Turnbull: My Lords, there are advantages in bringing together two intertwined issues such as energy and climate change, but there is an important proviso, which is that no one faction within a department becomes dominant and drowns out the voice of the other. I regret that this happened once in my experience in the early days of the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions. The roads...

Planning Bill (6 Oct 2008)

Lord Turnbull: ...that, as the noble Lord, Lord Woolmer, recognised at Second Reading only a few months ago, the noble Lord's colleague, Lord Taylor of Holbeach, suggested exactly the opposite: that the Committee on Climate Change should be made a decision-taking body, not an advisory body. The more fundamental problem is that that doctrine is just not true; it is a fallacy. There are huge swathes of public...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (11 Mar 2008)

Lord Turnbull: ...limit of this kind. There is no evidence that 70 is the right figure, or that 60 or 80 are right. We have no idea. To set a figure at this stage would be a serious mistake. This is clearly what the climate change committee is being established to deal with. At the same time, we need to make a much greater effort to ensure that the quality of the credits being traded represent a genuine...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (25 Feb 2008)

Lord Turnbull: ...in the Bill. Currently, the Bill has a target specified in greenhouse gases as parts per million, followed by a number of procedures to reconsider that over time on the advice of the Committee on Climate Change. But there seems to be no such mechanisms in relation to this 2 degrees. If, over time, scientific opinion changes upwards or downwards, we are left with 2 degrees in the Bill. If...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (14 Jan 2008)

Lord Turnbull: ...one branch of one science. Given the breadth of scientific, social and economic issues that this committee will have to deal with, if the MPC requires nine members, it is almost certain that the climate change committee needs more. I am puzzled that the original text of the Bill uses the word "appoint" while the amendment we are discussing uses "nominate". That word usually means that...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (27 Nov 2007)

Lord Turnbull: My Lords, successive reports of the International Panel on Climate Change have increased our knowledge and have narrowed down the range of uncertainty on the prospects of climate change. The estimates will continue to be refined but, for me, at least, it is now clear enough that an approach of "wait and see" is no longer tenable or even morally defensible. It is most unlikely that this will...