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Debate on bill on Monday, 9 June 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Phil Woolas. The answering member was Peter Ainsworth.

Climate Change Bill [Lords]

Climate Change Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on division (344 votes to 3). Programme motion on proceedings in Committe, on Report, Third Reading and any other proceedings. Agreed to on division (252 votes to 42). Money resolution agreed to on question. Ways and Means resolution agreed to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
477 c37-132 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 477 c57 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind all right hon. and hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 10-minute limit o...
Speaker | 477 c88 (Link to this contribution) Order. So as to be as inclusive as possible, I propose to reduce the time limit to seven minutes for...
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Lord Deben | 477 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Gentleman noticed that many great companies are ahead of Governments in making their de...
Phil Woolas | 477 c37 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Mr. Speaker, I understand that you and the ...
Jon Trickett | 477 c38 (Link to this contribution) The fact is, though, that whereas domestically the UK produces about 2 per cent. of the world's carb...
Phil Woolas | 477 c38 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. I would add one caveat: they are not ahead of this Gov...
Phil Woolas | 477 c38 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way once more on this point, then move on.
Phil Woolas | 477 c38 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, which I shall come to. The debate tends to concentrate on t...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c49 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my right hon. Friend, whose efforts in relation to climate change indeed date ...
Colin Challen | 477 c49 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress. I was speaking in a spirit of cross-party co-operation until the intervent...
Lord Redwood | 477 c50 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be foolish of this House to impose costs and obligations on ...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c50 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point that I will touch on later if he is patient and that w...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c51 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a familiar point, if I may say so. I can only repeat to him that it takes...
Tony Baldry | 477 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has not quite responded to the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Well...
Speaker | 477 c52 (Link to this contribution) Order. This is very lengthy for an intervention when so many Back Benchers wish to contribute.
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c52 (Link to this contribution) That intervention, though lengthy, was getting more helpful as it went on, Madam Deputy Speaker. I a...
Emily Thornberry | 477 c52 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c52-4 (Link to this contribution) I must make progress. We believe that the Bill, as amended in the Lords, is in pretty good shape. A...
Alan Simpson | 477 c52 (Link to this contribution) Is not the truth that, even if we take the arguments of those believe that this problem is to do wit...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c52 (Link to this contribution) Not for the first time, I strongly agree with the hon. Gentleman, who has an impeccable track record...
David Drew | 477 c54 (Link to this contribution) There can be no clearer way for individual households to play their part than by their agreeing to p...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c54 (Link to this contribution) They are an elegant intellectual construct whose time has not yet come.
Hugh Bayley | 477 c54 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that it was a slip of the tongue and that the hon. Gentleman meant to say international ca...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c54 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with the hon. Gentleman; indeed, London is already the global centre for the intern...
Christopher Chope | 477 c54 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern about the potential impact of this Bill on the costs of ordinar...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c54-5 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that my hon. Friend appears to have misunderstood that point. If he is worried about ris...
Phil Woolas | 477 c46 (Link to this contribution) I will have to come back to the hon. Gentleman—later in the debate, I hope—on the specifics. I give ...
Karen Buck | 477 c45 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome what my hon. Friend has just said. Aviation concerns the public, because it is t...
Phil Woolas | 477 c46 (Link to this contribution) I need to move forward and finish my speech. The committee's task will be to advise on the emission...
Nick Hurd | 477 c46 (Link to this contribution) The Committee on Climate Change is a key innovation in the Bill, which goes to the heart of improvin...
Phil Woolas | 477 c45 (Link to this contribution) There is a certain amount of detail in this debate, in which I am sure the House will want to partic...
Joan Walley | 477 c45 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and for his kind words about the role of the Environm...
Phil Woolas | 477 c46 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that our policy is exactly to include shipping, partly for the reasons that my hon. Fr...
Phil Woolas | 477 c46 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make some progress, because I have already been speaking for too long and need to g...
Sally Keeble | 477 c46 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. Is the Minister aware that although many qualities are required for the Climate Chang...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c49 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that I gave way to the hon. Gentleman, because he has made a silly and irrelevant point. ...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c49 (Link to this contribution) And I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in that spirit.
Nigel Griffiths | 477 c49 (Link to this contribution) I take it that by a previous Government the hon. Gentleman means the previous Conservative Governmen...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by expressing my condolences to the Secretary of State, who is unwell? No doubt he is as...
Martin Salter | 477 c47 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the Minister has referred in his speech to adaptation—an important point. Th...
Phil Woolas | 477 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) As ever on this issue and others, my hon. Friend makes a strong point. He is right; we agree with hi...
Lord Blencathra | 477 c74-5 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course we must aim for a lower carbon economy in this c...
Lord Deben | 477 c73 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that trading is the mechanism by which the rich countries can ensure...
Colin Challen | 477 c75-7 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the Bill, which shows genuine leadership on climate change. Indeed, that leadership ...
Tim Yeo | 477 c67 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House's attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests. It is a pleasure to...
Tim Yeo | 477 c67-8 (Link to this contribution) The results achieved by the Liberal Democrats at that time clearly show that they were regarded as f...
Martin Horwood | 477 c67 (Link to this contribution) I have respect for the hon. Gentleman as the Chair of the Committee of which I am a Member, but he m...
Tim Yeo | 477 c68-70 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to respond to the hon. Gentleman, who is a close and highly valued colleague on my Co...
Colin Challen | 477 c68 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am a member of the hon. Gentleman's Committee. I am pleased to serve under his leadership, a...
Lord Blencathra | 477 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support the Bill. I want to concentrate my remarks largely on clause 11, paying particular...
Linda Gilroy | 477 c70-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill, especially the contribution made to it by hon. Members through the Joint Committ...
Steve Webb | 477 c60 (Link to this contribution) Au contraire. I do not want to put words in the mouths of civil servants, but I suspect that if I wo...
Speaker | 477 c59 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman's time is up.
Lord Whitehead | 477 c57-9 (Link to this contribution) We have heard this afternoon about one of the most important elements at the forefront of the need t...
Barry Gardiner | 477 c60 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman take this opportunity to apologise to the many civil servants who faithfully...
Steve Webb | 477 c59-60 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, wish the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs a speedy recovery fr...
Steve Webb | 477 c56 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that this is not a purely scientific question but a political one? It is about ho...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend who chairs the Environmental Audit Committee and who has strong pers...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, we are all demonstrating that responsibility this afternoon. I welcome part 4 of the Bill, ...
Tim Yeo | 477 c55 (Link to this contribution) On the question of the impact of the Bill on business, does my hon. Friend agree that one reason for...
Gavin Strang | 477 c64-7 (Link to this contribution) Surely no challenge facing the world today is more urgent than that of climate change. About 20 year...
Steve Webb | 477 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) That is an unnecessary either/or. We can establish the UK as a low-carbon economy, and over and abov...
Phil Woolas | 477 c63 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman's argument very carefully. I agree with his point, but the othe...
Steve Webb | 477 c63 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is spot on; I absolutely agree. The Department for Transport's policy on ai...
Lord Deben | 477 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Government would be much more credible in this area if we saw...
Steve Webb | 477 c62 (Link to this contribution) It is not accurate to say that Liberal Democrat councils oppose every single application. We have a ...
Nigel Griffiths | 477 c62 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman's contribution, but will he sign up to the campaign that I support, cal...
Steve Webb | 477 c60-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. To implement the targets in the Bill will require funding. My worr...
Speaker | 477 c60 (Link to this contribution) Order. As so many Back Benchers want to make a contribution to the debate, we must debate the Second...
Tony Baldry | 477 c60 (Link to this contribution) Is not the point that the hon. Gentleman makes, which was made by my hon. Friend the Member for Ruis...
Phil Woolas | 477 c42 (Link to this contribution) It is extremely good news for all of us that the policies that have been adopted by the presidential...
Emily Thornberry | 477 c42 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of an emerging international consensus, does my hon. Friend agree that it is good new...
Phil Woolas | 477 c42 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, as he always does on these and other matters. How one reach...
Phil Woolas | 477 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) I would like to move on, because I have a long, detailed speech to make. There is a limit on Back-Be...
Phil Woolas | 477 c42 (Link to this contribution) I did say that I would move on—
Lord Barker of Battle | 477 c43-4 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify whether he intends to remove the clauses that the other place inserted and...
David Howarth | 477 c43 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the Minister says about rejecting the approach of the House of Lords. However, is he wil...
Phil Woolas | 477 c43 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the opportunity to give him an affirmative response. It is a...
Phil Woolas | 477 c44 (Link to this contribution) Yes, yes and no. We intend to change matters—I give notice that, should the House give the Bill a Se...
Tim Yeo | 477 c44 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in what the Minister said earlier about the targets. He knows that I strongly suppor...
Phil Woolas | 477 c44 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the Chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee.
Phil Woolas | 477 c44 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes my point. He is right—we could hit the target by carrying on in the same wa...
Phil Woolas | 477 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) There are many points to be made on that matter, and I must make progress. Action by the EU is also...
Phil Woolas | 477 c45 (Link to this contribution) If hon. Members will bear with me, I think that they will welcome what I am about to say. We recogn...
Lord Redwood | 477 c40 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way; he is being very patient. I find targets much mor...
Phil Woolas | 477 c40 (Link to this contribution) I indicated that I would give way to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood). I shall then...
Steve Webb | 477 c41 (Link to this contribution) We certainly support the principle of the Bill. However, will the Minister give us a categorical ass...
Phil Woolas | 477 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) On the latter point, the Government's carbon footprint is clearly a priority. As the Sustainable Dev...
Phil Woolas | 477 c41 (Link to this contribution) No, I cannot give that categorical assurance at this stage. The figure may be more than 80 per cent....
David Chaytor | 477 c41 (Link to this contribution) In respect of the support of the Opposition parties, does my hon. Friend agree that those calling fo...
Phil Woolas | 477 c41 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend is asking me whether I am surprised. I can give a clear answer to that q...
Colin Challen | 477 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) What would happen if the independent Committee on Climate Change—we always seem to refer to it as in...
Norman Baker | 477 c39 (Link to this contribution) The time to act is now, but is the Minister aware that in the transport sector there are increasing ...
Phil Woolas | 477 c39 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport often explains, measures are being take...
Lord Lilley | 477 c38 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He has just said that there is general agreement that ...
Phil Woolas | 477 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the cost-benefit analysis, which I hope we will debate today, will be subject to scrutiny ...
Phil Woolas | 477 c39 (Link to this contribution) Nine per cent., for the record; I take that point. The Bill establishes legally binding long-term t...
Phil Woolas | 477 c39 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to the hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry).
Tony Baldry | 477 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is pushing at an open door in persuading not all, but the overwhelming majority of the ...
Hugh Bayley | 477 c104 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Maples | 477 c104 (Link to this contribution) No, I am sorry. I want to make these points myself. We are a very adaptable people, and we can achi...
Lord Tyrie | 477 c104 (Link to this contribution) I have the Yale symposium document, and I completely agree with what my hon. Friend just said. Could...
Lord Maples | 477 c103 (Link to this contribution) I was coming that point. On, the Government's renewables target of 20 per cent., a leaked document w...
Speaker | 477 c103 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman was not referring to the occupant of the Chair.
Lord Maples | 477 c104 (Link to this contribution) I expect that you will be corralled into it, too, Madam Deputy Speaker. Let us take three points. O...
Colin Challen | 477 c103 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Maples | 477 c103 (Link to this contribution) No—I want to get on with my argument. It is not the temperature itself that is important but the ef...
David Chaytor | 477 c118 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for South-West Devon (Mr. Streeter) has highlighted the most important point this ev...
Alan Simpson | 477 c115-7 (Link to this contribution) This, internationally, is a groundbreaking Bill, which if we give it teeth, could also be an Earth-c...
Gary Streeter | 477 c117-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall restrict my remarks to three minutes to allow others to get in. First, I want to place on t...
Martin Horwood | 477 c113-5 (Link to this contribution) I am depressed by the re-emergence of such forceful Conservative climate change scepticism during th...
Speaker | 477 c115 (Link to this contribution) Order. Winding-up speeches are due to commence at 9.30 pm. If hon. Members can be concise, all may s...
Barry Gardiner | 477 c111-3 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack), who has echoed some of the very...
Hywel Williams | 477 c107-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill on behalf of Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National party. I am speaking in this d...
David Kidney | 477 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) It is valuable to hear sceptical voices in the debate, because when there is a consensus it is impor...
Rob Marris | 477 c105-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill and I accept that human activity is affecting the climate adversely. I am not a f...
Lord Barker of Battle | 477 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. It is incumbent on every political party not only to make the case for act...
Nigel Griffiths | 477 c120 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Barker of Battle | 477 c120 (Link to this contribution) I will not, I am afraid. Anyone filling their car at the pumps, anyone with a heating bill to pay, ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 477 c120-1 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I have very little time. There have been some terrific contributions to the deb...
David Kidney | 477 c121 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has missed out a bit.
Nick Hurd | 477 c118-9 (Link to this contribution) I shall take one minute to make one point to the Government. I recently served on Committees that co...
Lord Barker of Battle | 477 c119 (Link to this contribution) This has been an historic parliamentary occasion. Certainly, the scale and the nature of the planeta...
Nigel Griffiths | 477 c119 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Speaker | 477 c125 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman knows better, and he is defying the Chair now. He has shifted the gr...
Joan Ruddock | 477 c125 (Link to this contribution) On the question of finances and the impact assessment raised by the right hon. Gentleman, we will be...
Joan Ruddock | 477 c125 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. I am trying to cover the points that were made. As I said, my ri...
Lord Barker of Battle | 477 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) I have missed out a bit. I apologise and I stand corrected. The right hon. Member for Oldham, West a...
Joan Ruddock | 477 c124-5 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give way. [Hon. Members: ““Give way!””] I cannot—there is no time. I pay tribute to my rig...
Joan Ruddock | 477 c122-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker) for his support. Let us be ...
Joan Ruddock | 477 c125-6 (Link to this contribution) No, I am sorry. I have made it very clear that I am trying to answer the points that were made in th...
Lord Deben | 477 c77 (Link to this contribution) I refer the House to my declaration of interest. This is one of the most exciting times to be livin...
Peter Ainsworth | 477 c78 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has just made the point that I was going to ask him about. Has he seen the rese...
Lord Deben | 477 c78-80 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. That is another aspect of our being one world in a practical sense, rather than just in theo...
Michael Meacher | 477 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) Along with everyone else, I strongly welcome the Bill. I also welcomed the patient and skilful manne...
Madeleine Moon | 477 c81 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the ways of convincing the newly emerging industrial cou...
Lord Deben | 477 c81 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that we could start by not building a coal-fired power station a...
Michael Meacher | 477 c81 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree, and I think that we could do a great deal more. There is a lot of talk about China...
David Chaytor | 477 c82 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that, had the Government taken a decision shortly after 1997 to have...
Michael Meacher | 477 c82-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises some very interesting issues with which historically I confess I had something...
Madeleine Moon | 477 c86 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that although we are debating this serious issue and Governments around th...
Anne Snelgrove | 477 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry), whose comments about developin...
Speaker | 477 c85 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman has used up his time allocation.
Tony Baldry | 477 c84-5 (Link to this contribution) As I think was said earlier, this whole area of climate change provides the UK with considerable opp...
Anne Snelgrove | 477 c84 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says about China, but the other issue is that it is building new carb...
Tony Baldry | 477 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) The speech of the right hon. Member for Oldham, West and Royton (Mr. Meacher) demonstrates that this...
Anne Snelgrove | 477 c87-8 (Link to this contribution) I will name no names, because the Member concerned is not in his place. My Bill aimed to ensure tha...
Anne Snelgrove | 477 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. I believe that this is about not only Governments...
Lord Lilley | 477 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley), who has given on...
Elliot Morley | 477 c91-3 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill; indeed, its principles have had a unanimous welcome. If they had not, we might a...
Lord Lilley | 477 c94 (Link to this contribution) Professor Stern said that, if global warming goes ahead and causes all the damage that he anticipate...
Martin Horwood | 477 c94 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the Institute of Public Policy Research report that considered ...
David Howarth | 477 c88-9 (Link to this contribution) I will try to keep my remarks brief. The hon. Member for South Swindon (Anne Snelgrove) mentioned s...
David Howarth | 477 c89-91 (Link to this contribution) I once had a PhD student who did her thesis on small island states, but I do not have time to go int...
Phil Woolas | 477 c89 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a coherent argument, but there are many countries, such as the small island...
David Howarth | 477 c94 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will be aware, of course, that the shadow price of carbon approach has been...
Lord Lilley | 477 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) That is as may be, but that is a criticism of the Government, not of me. I am only quoting what the ...
Speaker | 477 c96 (Link to this contribution) Order. I point out to all right hon. and hon. Members that the time limit imposed on Back Benchers' ...
Lord Lilley | 477 c96 (Link to this contribution) Great; I do not doubt that some countries have taken action, and others will do so, but only if a su...
Martin Horwood | 477 c96 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is very kind to give way to me a second time. Does he accept that Californi...
Lord Lilley | 477 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) Yes, President Bush; I am a bit behind the times. Many people equate the two. The Democratic measure...
Lord Tyrie | 477 c98-9 (Link to this contribution) I will not support the Bill this evening. I have fundamental disagreements with parts of it. It requ...
Hugh Bayley | 477 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not suggest that we do the same with global warming, because a British frigate cannot stop ...
Lord Maples | 477 c97 (Link to this contribution) After the Bill abolishing slavery was passed by the House, the British Navy patrolled the Atlantic, ...
Lord Maples | 477 c99 (Link to this contribution) Until our right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) spoke, there was much ...
Lord Maples | 477 c100 (Link to this contribution) One of the other things that puzzles me—I do not know whether my hon. Friend has thought about it—is...
Desmond Turner | 477 c101 (Link to this contribution) It is quite refreshing and reassuring that the friendly consensus that had broken out in the House h...
Lord Tyrie | 477 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree. We are taking decisions against a very difficult backdrop—periodically fuelled by ...
Lord Tyrie | 477 c101 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Desmond Turner | 477 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) As has already been made clear, it is not in the IPCC reports, which err on the side of conservatism...
Lord Tyrie | 477 c101 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is giving a deeply apocalyptic view of the world. Can he tell me where in the IPC...
Lord Maples | 477 c103 (Link to this contribution) Until a couple of months ago, I was happily riding this consensus and basically accepted the receive...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 477 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) I have read the intergovernmental panel report, and it surprises me that it makes no reference at al...
Phil Woolas | 477 c40 (Link to this contribution) On the provisions in the Bill as it stands, there are two points. First, the target should be at lea...
Lord Tyrie | 477 c103 (Link to this contribution) Bjørn Lomborg also does a pretty good demolition job on the whole issue of whether Kyoto was worth i...
Michael Jack | 477 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, which I have the honour of chairing, welcomed the...
Speaker | 477 c125 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister has the Floor. It is not wise for the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpende...
Phil Woolas | 477 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) Consultation with the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. Frie...
Lord Maples | 477 c104-5 (Link to this contribution) The main criticism of the Stern review is the discount rate that it uses. It is quite difficult to w...
Michael Meacher | 477 c81-2 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree—and, as so often, the right hon. Gentleman anticipates something I was going to say...
Hugh Bayley | 477 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Bill as an environmentalist and an economist. I congratulate the civil society ...
Lord Maples | 477 c103 (Link to this contribution) The models on which the policy of the party of the hon. Member for Morley and Rothwell (Colin Challe...
Lord Deben | 477 c49 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that merely labelling a tax with a polite name should not make it impossi...
Nigel Griffiths | 477 c120 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Tyrie | 477 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree. Some areas of the science are settled, but many are not. Having read extensively t...
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Companies Aviation Climate change Biodiversity Departmental responsibilities Developing countries Environment protection Food International cooperation Pollution control Recycling Renewable energy Shipping Waste Carbon emissions UK emissions trading scheme
Legislation
Climate Change Bill (HL) 2007-08
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