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Proceeding contribution from Lord Rooker (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 8 January 2008. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Climate Change Bill [HL].

Climate Change Bill [HL]

In response to the noble Baroness, Lady Young, I say that in my back pocket is Clause 49, the programme for adaptation to climate change. Subsection (2) states: "““The objectives, proposals and policies must be such as to contribute to sustainable development””." I say that because we are dealing with Clause 11 on the budgets at the moment. I am not saying that it meets the point related to this but, so far as the Bill is concerned, where we have looked at the various aspects, it is in terms of the adaptation policies that we have actually—

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
697 c784 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Devolved matters Climate change Carbon dioxide Biodiversity Environment protection Northern Ireland Pollution control Scotland Standards Wales Carbon emissions Climate Change Committee Carbon budgets
Legislation
Climate Change Bill (HL) 2007-08
Link
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