Debate on Thursday, 14 January 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Stone of Blackheath. The answering member was Lord Hunt of Kings Heath.

Climate Change: Copenhagen Conference

Lords debate on motion to call attention to the outcome of the Copenhagen conference on climate change. Motion withdrawn.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 716 c617-65
Session: 2009-10
Department: Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Lord Stone of Blackheath | 716 c665 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was urged to call this debate by warm, caring and sensitive friends and Members of this ...; Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 716 c663-5 (Link to this contribution) That is a very helpful intervention, and I agree with my noble friend. However, I still think that w...; Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 716 c659-63 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for allowing us to have an interesting and important debate. The G...; Baroness Wilcox | 716 c658-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stone, for calling this debate, which has allowed the House the opportu...; Lord Teverson | 716 c656-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stone, for this debate. I apologise that I was not here for t...; Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 716 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had not expected to be able to speak in this debate, and I apologise to the five speaker...; Lord Puttnam | 716 c653-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it falls to me as the last Back-Bench speaker to thank my noble friend Lord Stone on havin...; Lord Stern of Brentford | 716 c651-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stone, for initiating this debate. I was at Copenhagen for th...; Lord Dixon-Smith | 716 c650-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as always, it is a privilege to take part in a debate in this House on this subject. I spe...; Earl of Sandwich | 716 c638-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, many of us remember Barbara Ward and the authors of the Brandt report, where we learned th...; Lord Lea of Crondall | 716 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for once, I can say that I am not being wise after the event, because I wrote an article f...; Lord Smith of Finsbury | 716 c641-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of the Environment Agency, the day-by-day work of which ...; Lord Clinton-Davis | 716 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Smith of Finsbury, whom we have just hear...; Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 716 c6434 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the spectrum between success and failure, the Copenhagen conference surely has to be pl...; Lord Donoughue | 716 c645-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Stone, for the opportunity to discuss the Copenhagen con...; Lord Judd | 716 c646-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join those who have congratulated my noble friend Lord Stone of Blackheath on having sec...; Lord Birt | 716 c648-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a director of the renewable energy companies listed in the Regist...; Lord Anderson of Swansea | 716 c649-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, two years before the Copenhagen conference, the UN Secretary-General wrote in the Washingt...; Lord Whitty | 716 c635 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I bow to my noble friend’s greater knowledge.; Lord Giddens | 716 c635 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may remind noble Lords that the quotation about Martin Luther King came from two American ...; Lord Browne of Madingley | 716 c635-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for many observers, the Copenhagen accord, signed at last month’s climate conference, is a...; Lord Hunt of Chesterton | 716 c637-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Stone, on introducing the debate and on his opening re...; Baroness Young of Old Scone | 716 c632-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stone, for the opportunity that this debate gives. I declare ...; Lord Whitty | 716 c634-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, while, along with my noble friend Lady Young, we can garner some consolation from bits of ...; Baroness Jay of Paddington | 716 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will focus my contribution on the developing world, and declare my interest as a member ...; Lord Patel | 716 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, hitherto most of the debate around climate change has revolved around limiting the increas...; Lord Rees of Ludlow | 716 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is sometimes said fatalistically that the UK’s stance on climate change is of marginal ...; Lord James of Blackheath | 716 c628 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord. My point is that there is a lack of inspiration in getting on with ...; Lord Lea of Crondall | 716 c628 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Lord not aware that we are part of a unified European position that drove China and Ame...; Lord James of Blackheath | 716 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not firmly of the view either way about climate change, but I am very concerned about...; Lord Giddens | 716 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I take no particular pleasure in saying that in my book on the politics of climate change,...; Lord Oxburgh | 716 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had not intended to talk about science today because the science was not seriously quest...; Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 716 c624 (Link to this contribution) The debate is time-limited and the noble Lord is moving into his eighth minute.; Lord Oxburgh | 716 c624 (Link to this contribution) In conclusion, all was not lost at Copenhagen. It is essential for the UK to move ahead both at a pr...; Lord Chartres | 716 c624-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, am grateful for the constructive way in which the noble Lord, Lord Stone, introduc...; Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 716 c622 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my gratitude to the noble Lord, Lord Stone, for initiating this debate, and for doin...; Lord Ryder of Wensum | 716 c620-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stone, for instigating this important debate, on which I cong...; Lord Stone of Blackheath | 716 c617 (Link to this contribution) Moved By To call attention to the outcome of the Copenhagen conference on climate change; and to m...; Lord Stone of Blackheath | 716 c617-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, early in December, colleagues involved in climate change issues were telling me that they ...; Lord Lea of Crondall | 716 c663 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my noble friend, but the point I was making is that we must be careful that the tax...
Subjects: Conservation Climate change Developing countries Carbon capture and storage China Energy International assistance European Union International cooperation Forestry Pollution control United Nations Renewable energy USA Carbon emissions Conferences Greenhouse gas emissions
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Climate Change: Copenhagen Conference

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