Search Results

1-18 of 18 results for subject:"Climate change"

Show detailed: On Off

Results: 10 20 50 100

Sort by: Newest first Oldest first

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the UK's contribution to tackling climate change.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 May 2019

Reference

255288

House

House of Commons

G8 Climate Change Conference

To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to his speech of 2 November 2005 at the G8 climate change conference, whether his statement on external imposition of internal targets referred to (a) the Kyoto protocol and (b) the general concept of binding greenhouse gas reduction targets; and what assessment he has...

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 November 2005

Reference

439 c1659W;439 c1661W; 29517

House

House of Commons

Greenhouse Gasses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research the Government have commissioned into the viability of an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that does not contain binding targets.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 November 2005

Reference

27913; 439 c1060W;439 c1060W

House

House of Commons

Greenhouse Gasses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether it is the Government's policy to seek international agreement for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol containing binding greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 November 2005

Reference

27912; 439 c1059-60W;439 c1059-60W

House

House of Commons

Greenhouse Gasses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what scientific advice the Government have received on the level of greenhouse gas reductions required by 2050 to avoid unacceptable risk of extreme climate change.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

8 November 2005

For answer on

10 November 2005

Answered on

15 November 2005

The ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that avoids ““dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system””. As yet there is no consensus on what constitutes this level. It is, however, accepted that dangerous levels will be different for different impact sectors and for different regions.The Environment Council stated in 1996 that adaptation to a global temperature rise of 2C would be possible, but that the impacts associated with a temperature rise greater than 2°C are likely to be severe enough to be classified as ‘dangerous'. A 2°C temperature rise was the starting point for the analysis carried out in preparation for the Energy White Paper, underpinning the conclusion by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Secretariat that we should put the UK on a path to reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent. by 2050.Our scientific understanding of the links between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration, the scale of emissions reductions required and the risk of extreme climate change is rapidly developing, but still uncertain. The issue of stabilisation levels of atmospheric greenhouse concentrations was addressed at the Defra-funded international science conference, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, held in Exeter in February this year. The report of the steering committee concluded that:"““Compared with the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's] IPCC's Third Assessment Report (TAR) there is greater clarity and reduced uncertainty about the impacts of climate change across a wide range of systems, sectors and societies. In many cases the risks are more serious than previously thought””."

Date

15 November 2005

Reference

27914; 439 c1060-1W;439 c1060-1W

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

To ask the Prime Minister if he will list policy commitments he has made relating to climate change since 1997.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 November 2005

Reference

27522; 439 c921-2W;439 c921-2W

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

To ask the Prime Minister if he will list the speeches he has made regarding climate change since becoming Prime Minister.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 November 2005

Reference

439 c921W;439 c921W; 26832

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the G8 plan of action on climate change contains legally binding provisions on participating Governments.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 October 2005

Reference

15083; 437 c130W;437 c130W

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which items of the G8 Plan of Action are not (a) already part of agreements made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and (b) already being undertaken by other international bodies of which the UK...

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 September 2005

Reference

14996; 436 c2302W;436 c2302W

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which actions required of the UK Government in the G8 Plan of Action on climate change are not already being undertaken by the UK Government.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 September 2005

Reference

14995; 436 c2302W;436 c2302W

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much additional investment in clean energy technologies from (a) public and (b) private sources is guaranteed under the G8 Plan of Action on climate change.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 September 2005

Reference

14998; 436 c2303W;436 c2303W

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate has been made of the change in carbon dioxide emissions that would result from the full implementation of the G8 Plan of Action on climate change.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 September 2005

Reference

14997; 436 c2302-3W;436 c2302-3W

House

House of Commons

Energy Efficiency

I thank the Secretary of State for the notice that she gave of answering questions. I wish she would persuade her colleagues in the Wales Office to be as courteous. The target of a 30 per cent. improvement in domestic efficiency by 2010 was restated no fewer than 23 times in the Government review that monitored the implementation of the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995. With only five years to go, will the right hon. Lady explain what she can do to achieve that target, especially if she does not know where she is at the moment with regard to the figures?

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

9 June 2005

Reference

434 c1379-80

House

House of Commons

F-GASES REGULATION AND HYDROFLUOROCARBONS

That this House notes that hydrofluorcarbon chemicals (HFCs) used in refrigeration and air-conditioning have on average 2,274 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide; recalls the statement, firstly, in the UK Climate Change Programme that HFCs are not sustainable in the long-term, and secondly, by the Deputy Prime Minister,...

Primary sponsor

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Type

Early day motions

Date

17 May 2005

Reference

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what targets the Government has set for (a) energy efficiency in the UK, (b) waste minimisation, (c) marine pollution, (d) air quality, (e) climate change, (f) renewable energy, (g) fly-tipping, (h) packaging, (i) end of life vehicles, (j)...

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

15 October 2003

For answer on

3 November 2003

Answered on

3 November 2003

Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what targets the Government have set for (a) energy efficiency in the UK, (b) waste minimisation, (c) marine pollution, (d) air quality, (e) climate change, (f) renewable energy, (g) fly-tipping, (h) packaging, (i) end of life vehicles, (j) the disposal of hazardous waste, (k) incineration, (l) recycling, (m) water quality, (n) coastal erosion, (o) fuel poverty, (p) flood defence, (q) wind power use, (r) domestic waste management, (s) industrial waste management, (t) landfill, (u) greenhouse gas emissions and (v) timber procurement. [133258] Mr. Morley: Government's targets and goals include the following: On climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy efficiency (e, u, a), the UK Climate Change Programme is designed to deliver our Kyoto Protocol target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 12.5 per cent. below 1990 levels by 2008-12, as well as set us on a path towards our domestic goal of a 20 per cent. reduction in carbon emissions by 2010. The Government stated in the Energy White Paper our expectation for more than half the emissions reductions in the Programme to come from energy efficiency. In the White Paper, the Government also accepted the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's recommendation that the UK should put itself on a path towards a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of some 60 per cent. from current levels by about 2050. For renewable energy and wind power use (f, q) the Government's aim is that by 2010, 10 per cent. of the UK's electricity should be supplied from renewable sources and our aspiration is that by 2020, to double renewables' share of electricity from our 2010 target. There are currently no specific targets for particular forms of renewable energy such as wind power. On fuel poverty (o) the goal of the Government and Devolved Administrations is the eradication of fuel poverty as far as reasonably practicable by 2016-18, and in England and Wales for vulnerable households by 2010. In addition, in England we have a target to reduce fuel poverty among vulnerable households by improving the energy efficiency of 600,000 homes between 2001 and 2004. For domestic waste management, recycling and landfill (l, r, t) the targets are to recycle or compost 17 per cent. of household waste by 2003-04 and 25 per cent. by 2005-06 and, from the Landfill Directive, by 2010 to reduce biodegradable municipal waste landfilled to 75 per cent. of that produced in 1995; by 2013 to 50 per cent. and by 2020 to 35 per cent. For waste minimisation and incineration (b, k) there are no set targets, but Government policy is to drive waste management up the waste hierarchy; this hierarchy has landfill at the bottom and minimisation at the top. For packaging (h), current (2002 and 2003) targets are 59 per cent. for recovery and 19 per cent. for material-specific recycling. A consultation on targets for 2004-08 has just closed. For the disposal of hazardous waste and industrial waste (j, s), the Waste Strategy 2000 set a target to reduce the amount of industrial and commercial waste sent to landfill to 85 per cent. of the 1998 level by 2005. This target includes hazardous waste. On end of life vehicles, the End of Life Vehicles Directive has not yet entered into force in the UK. The main targets will be 85 per cent. of all ELVs reused or recovered and 80 per cent. reused or recycled by January 2006, rising to 95 per cent. reused or recovered and 85 per cent. reused or recycled in 2015. There are currently no targets for fly-tipping (g). For air quality (d), the Air Quality Strategy sets targets for carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particles, sulphur dioxide, benzene and 1,3-butadiene. For water quality (m), the Government has targets that at least 91 per cent. of English rivers achieve their river quality targets by 2005; and that at least 97 per cent. of bathing waters in England meet the mandatory coliform standards in the 2005 bathing season. For marine pollution (c), the targets for reducing and eliminating marine pollution are generally those set out in the strategies on hazardous substances, radioactive substances and eutrophication agreed in the OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic and relevant EC Directives. For coastal erosion and flood defence (n, p), targets are to aim, by the encouragement of sustainable defence measures (including timely and effective flood warning systems), to have no loss of life through flooding; and by investing £397 million over the Spending Review period (2003-06), to reduce the risk of flooding to life, to major infrastructure, environment assets and to some 80,000 houses. On timber procurement (v) the UK Government are committed to, seek to procure products made from timber that has been legally felled and grown in a forest or plantation managed to sustain biodiversity, productivity, vitality and to prevent harm to other ecosystems and indigenous or forest dependent people. Targets for sustainable public procurement will be published in early 2004 as part of the Framework for Sustainable Development on the Government Estate.

Date

3 November 2003

Reference

133258; 412 c407-9W;412 c415-7W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the Government's plans to tackle climate change. - Including figures.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 October 2003

Reference

131066; 411 c295W;411 c299W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the UK has made in reducing carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol; and what assessment she has made of the impact of the proposed expansion of UK airports on meeting the targets. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

1 September 2003

Reference

126740; 409 c829W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the estimate of the proportion of methane emissions arising from fossil fuel extraction, set out in paragraph 2.8 of the 22nd report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution; and what action...

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 June 2003

Reference

114717; 406 c20W;406 c19-20W

House

House of Commons

Librarians' tools

Type

House

Session

Year

Department

Member

Primary member

Answering member

Legislative stage

Legislation

Subject

Publisher