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UK Climate Projections

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

494 c445-58 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2009-1751
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Committee
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Peter Soulsby | 494 c451 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and the excellent scientific work that lies behind...

Hilary Benn | 494 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words about the Met Office scientists, wh...

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Michael Jack | 494 c452 (Link to this contribution) The projections, especially those at the high end of the time scale, suggest that, for example, temp...

Colin Challen | 494 c452 (Link to this contribution) I really do welcome today's statement, given that its timing quite deliberately coincides with my pr...

Hilary Benn | 494 c452 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point. The fact is that whoever is in governme...

Hilary Benn | 494 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) Water companies already produce quite a bit of energy from anaerobic digestion, in order to power th...

Hilary Benn | 494 c453 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point about who, in the end, holds Governments to acc...

Lord Lilley | 494 c453 (Link to this contribution) And in the courts.

Hilary Benn | 494 c445-6 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the publication of new proj...

Kim Howells | 494 c449 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on an impressive, timely and comprehensive statement. May I urge...

Hilary Benn | 494 c449 (Link to this contribution) There are places in the country where it would not be appropriate to put wind turbines, including so...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 494 c446-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for early sight of his statement and for his courtesy in briefing me ...

Hilary Benn | 494 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly with what the hon. Gentleman said about the message that the projections give...

Andrew George | 494 c457 (Link to this contribution) I represent an area of west Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, where there will be growing anxiety ab...

Hilary Benn | 494 c457 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point about the interdependence of world food supply. Some ha...

Desmond Swayne | 494 c457 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State rightly pointed out in his statement that we have now established in law very...

Hilary Benn | 494 c456 (Link to this contribution) This century is nine years old. Courtesy of the ice cores in the Arctic and the Antarctic, we can go...

Alan Reid | 494 c456 (Link to this contribution) Agriculture depends on a finely tuned climate balance, and the projected changes in the climate will...

Lord Tyrie | 494 c456 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is placing very heavy emphasis on these projections, and therefore on the com...

Hilary Benn | 494 c455 (Link to this contribution) The straight answer to my hon. Friend's last question is "a lot". He is right to point out the dilem...

Peter Ainsworth | 494 c456 (Link to this contribution) These are obviously challenging projections, and they reinforce the need for a robust deal at Copenh...

Hilary Benn | 494 c455 (Link to this contribution) Anglian Water is indeed serving an area of the country where there is particular difficulty. The lon...

Philip Hollobone | 494 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) Kettering is located in one of the driest regions of England—the Anglian Water region—yet, under Gov...

Barry Gardiner | 494 c455 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. He will be aware of the intergovernmental panel on clima...

Roger Williams | 494 c454 (Link to this contribution) Agriculture has a large part to play, through improved land management, increasing carbon sequestrat...

Hilary Benn | 494 c454 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks at the funding that goes in from DEFRA or the Biotechnology and Biologic...

Hilary Benn | 494 c454 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend about the need to decarbonise and to change the way we think about waste...

Mark Lazarowicz | 494 c453 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has rightly referred to the need for international agreement among Governments....

Hilary Benn | 494 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The truth is that pressure from below helps Governments to move....

Hilary Benn | 494 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) Tomorrow will see the publication of the long-term investment strategy for flood defence as part of ...

Lord Lilley | 494 c458 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to you for calling me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State will know ...

Hilary Benn | 494 c458 (Link to this contribution) I would not make any such claim. I am not a physicist, but I will ask scientists at the Met Office H...

David Heathcoat-Amory | 494 c453 (Link to this contribution) Spine-chilling projections are one thing, but may I ask the Secretary of State about his performance...

Hilary Benn | 494 c451 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. We must tell the truth about the range of consequences that...

Simon Hughes | 494 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and for today's early briefing, and I welcome the S...

Hilary Benn | 494 c457 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will not have to wait too long. We are taking things in stages, and the first thi...

Hilary Benn | 494 c456 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. In the end, we want sustainable biofuels, not unsustain...

Lord Whitehead | 494 c454 (Link to this contribution) I, too, strongly welcome the publication of these stark but important projections today and my right...

Subjects

Climate change Flood control Droughts Floods Forecasts Weather Temperature Carbon emissions Sea level Rain Greenhouse gas emissions

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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