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Climate Change

Opposition day on Tuesday, 8 May 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Chris Huhne. The answering member was Ian Pearson.
Climate change. Tenth opposition day debate (part 1). Motion negatived on division (59 to 298). Amendment agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
460 c37-84 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c54 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I do not recognise a word of what the hon. Gentleman says. He will know, if he was ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) Any opportunity to debate action on climate change is welcome and there is a great deal in the motio...

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Clive Efford | 460 c54 (Link to this contribution) If the Conservatives are facing up to the challenges of climate change, would the hon. Gentleman car...
Mark Lazarowicz | 460 c51 (Link to this contribution) The Liberal Democrats appear to suggest that 70 per cent. is the right figure to go for, but does my...
Ian Pearson | 460 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) I said at the start of my speech that a clause in the Bill allows us to change the targets, in the l...
Ian Pearson | 460 c51 (Link to this contribution) For the last time, and then I must really make some progress—and a flight.
Martin Horwood | 460 c51 (Link to this contribution) At the opening of his speech, the Minister said that the Government were ready to make a range of re...
Ian Pearson | 460 c51 (Link to this contribution) I said that our target was a reduction of at least 60 per cent. in CO2 emissions by 2050 from 1990 l...
Peter Ainsworth | 460 c51 (Link to this contribution) It is indeed welcome, but can the Minister explain why emissions from the Government estate have bee...
Ian Pearson | 460 c51 (Link to this contribution) As I have explained to the hon. Gentleman before, the DEFRA office estate is going through a transit...
Ian Pearson | 460 c50 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. As I mentioned, a sum of money has been allocated to help improve the greenness of...
Lynne Jones | 460 c50 (Link to this contribution) A number of schools will be refurbished under the building schools for the future programme. Will th...
Roger Williams | 460 c49 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. If individual citizens of this country are to play their full p...
Ian Pearson | 460 c49 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may not be aware that we announced a few weeks ago that we are to introduce free ...
Clive Efford | 460 c50 (Link to this contribution) We are trying to educate the public about how they can play their part in tackling climate change, b...
Elliot Morley | 460 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman about urgency, but that is the weakness in his argument. While the p...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c58 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right to say that we need a range of tools, but we are not seeing ambiti...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c57 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, he is the Terminator, and he is coming after the hon. Gentleman’s seat. He continued:"““In s...
Elliot Morley | 460 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to discuss what is clearly one of the most pressing environmental issues—i...
Peter Ainsworth | 460 c61 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman was waxing eloquent, and rightly so, about the benefits of carbon budgeting...
Barry Gardiner | 460 c58 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that when the Government introduced the climate change levy in 2001, ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c58-60 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I will not because, sadly, those are simply two remarkable exceptions. What about a...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) Our position on congestion charging is very clear—it is up to local people to decide what is in the ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 460 c56 (Link to this contribution) I have to report to the House that when I recently left the Commons one evening on my bicycle, the h...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c56 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point, but the key point about hybrids is that they are part of an emerging tech...
Speaker | 460 c55 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps we could debate the motion, and the amendments before the House.
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c55 (Link to this contribution) As I was saying, thanks to the leadership of my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney, the modern ...
Chris Huhne | 460 c55 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c55 (Link to this contribution) It was a great shame that the hon. Gentleman tore up the cross-party agreement that was so meticulou...
Chris Huhne | 460 c55 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for finally giving way. He will know very well that when we susp...
Speaker | 460 c55 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that interventions must be brief.
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) We have had 25 minutes of listening to the dirge of the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne); tha...
Andrew Miller | 460 c56 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would point out to the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) that a ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c55 (Link to this contribution) We have had plenty of opportunity to debate the merits of recycling; we came before the country with...
Speaker | 460 c37 (Link to this contribution) We now come to the main business. I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name ...
Andrew Miller | 460 c39 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the UN figures are predicated not on unilateral action by this co...
Chris Huhne | 460 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises a matter with which I shall deal later. No doubt he knows that the Sustain...
John Bercow | 460 c38 (Link to this contribution) In the light of entirely justified exhortations to improve the environmental performance of the priv...
Chris Huhne | 460 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House calls on the Government to set targets for carbon emissions informed ...
Chris Huhne | 460 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to make it clear that we are calling for the Government to set a more ambitious target....
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 460 c40 (Link to this contribution) With a steeply graduated vehicle excise duty, what allowances would the hon. Gentleman make for peop...
Chris Huhne | 460 c39 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that we need a global agreement. It is useful that the Chancellor of Ger...
Nick Hurd | 460 c39 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman calling for Britain to act more ambitiously on long-term targets unilaterally?...
Chris Huhne | 460 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows very well, because we have dealt with this matter in previous debates, that...
Chris Huhne | 460 c41 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that it would be unusual for the people whom he is describing to buy new hi...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 460 c41 (Link to this contribution) I am still unclear as to whether, under the hon. Gentleman’s proposals for the vehicle excise duty, ...
Chris Huhne | 460 c41 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that if we always find difficulties—if the glass is always half empty—we wi...
Mark Lazarowicz | 460 c41 (Link to this contribution) As we are discussing the effects of vehicle excise duty on people in rural areas, may I take the hon...
Chris Huhne | 460 c42 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting topographical point about the mountains in his constituency...
Daniel Kawczynski | 460 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) On the hon. Gentleman’s previous point about exemptions for certain people in rural areas, there are...
Lynne Jones | 460 c42 (Link to this contribution) Germany operates the same high standards for refurbishments as for new build. Would the hon. Gentlem...
Chris Huhne | 460 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady anticipates the next section of my speech. Adding microgeneration means that energy sa...
Nick Hurd | 460 c43 (Link to this contribution) I fully share the emphasis that the hon. Gentleman places on energy efficiency, but I want to be cle...
Ian Pearson | 460 c46 (Link to this contribution) When we were discussing our targets, we thought it right to focus on the main greenhouse gas emitted...
Chris Huhne | 460 c45 (Link to this contribution) Why have the Government framed their targets in terms of CO2 alone when, as we all know, the basket ...
Ian Pearson | 460 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““House”” to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:"“...
Chris Huhne | 460 c44 (Link to this contribution) It is not part of our party’s policy. At some point in the future additional incentives might be req...
Michael Gove | 460 c44 (Link to this contribution) The definition of compulsion is, of course, an elastic one. One of the proposals that was floated at...
Chris Huhne | 460 c44 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman can see by looking at the pamphlet, there is no proposal for the scheme to be ...
Nick Hurd | 460 c44 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman confirm that his proposed measure will be entirely voluntary, because his pam...
Chris Huhne | 460 c44 (Link to this contribution) As we make clear in our proposals, for any period of time that we might envisage it would be extreme...
Robert Goodwill | 460 c46 (Link to this contribution) Is it not true that the Government signed up to the regulation on fluorinated gases, which will make...
Ian Pearson | 460 c46 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that the UK has made significant reductions in methane and ot...
Jo Swinson | 460 c48 (Link to this contribution) We support many of the schemes that the Minister outlines in the fight against climate change, but d...
Ian Pearson | 460 c48 (Link to this contribution) I agree. We should first try to avoid CO2 emissions, then reduce them and then consider recycling. O...
Chris Huhne | 460 c48 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to understand the Minister’s point about annual targets. The assessment will be made...
Ian Pearson | 460 c48 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Lady. Annual targets do not work for one simple reason. We do have cold...
David Howarth | 460 c47 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way again. Would it not be better if the Government took a unilatera...
Ian Pearson | 460 c46 (Link to this contribution) Currently, there is no internationally accepted definition for aviation and shipping emissions, whic...
Andrew Miller | 460 c48 (Link to this contribution) It is a good idea to try to educate the public about the energy usage of household equipment. The id...
Ian Pearson | 460 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) We are showing leadership on this issue. For example, the UK will be the first country in the world ...
David Howarth | 460 c46 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned international leadership. Will he undertake that the Government will show mor...
Ian Pearson | 460 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is an economist, so he is used to dealing with many variables. The practice of ha...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c74 (Link to this contribution) For the record, can the hon. Gentleman tell us what happened to carbon emissions under the last Cons...
Martin Horwood | 460 c75 (Link to this contribution) The problem is the same as the Government have had with the Kyoto targets, because other factors are...
Speaker | 460 c73 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister must not anticipate his own winding-up speech.
Martin Horwood | 460 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for the Minister’s lengthy intervention. When I was in business, a target was a h...
Martin Horwood | 460 c73 (Link to this contribution) The Minister shakes his head. I will happily give way if he wants to explain why the target in the B...
Barry Gardiner | 460 c73 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. It is unfortunate and puerile to keep on making ...
Martin Horwood | 460 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) Members will be pleased with the overall tone of this debate, which has demonstrated a great deal of...
Andrew Miller | 460 c71 (Link to this contribution) No. The hon. Gentleman wants 15 minutes to wind up, so he can use some of that time. Our energy pol...
Martin Horwood | 460 c71 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Miller | 460 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) I disagree on a couple of points with Opposition Members who have spoken, although there is a huge a...
David Howarth | 460 c71 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman’s comments on that subject. Does he therefore agree with the Bill br...
Andrew Miller | 460 c71 (Link to this contribution) The principle of devolving the responsibility has some merit, but leadership from the top is also ne...
Speaker | 460 c64 (Link to this contribution) May I make a plea for brief contributions? There is a limited amount of time available for the rest ...
Mark Hunter | 460 c64-5 (Link to this contribution) The original title of this debate was ““Action on climate change begins at home””. The latter part o...
Robert Goodwill | 460 c67-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne) for picking this subject for debate on behalf of...
Elliot Morley | 460 c61 (Link to this contribution) The argument for five years—although it is not for me to make it—is that it aligns itself with the p...
Elliot Morley | 460 c61-4 (Link to this contribution) The problem is that there is some confusion among those who advocate annual targets. Even they recog...
Chris Huhne | 460 c61 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not recognise that if there is an annual report, there must be a bench...
Speaker | 460 c81 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby. The House having divided: Ayes...
Lord Barker of Battle | 460 c75 (Link to this contribution) That could possibly be because we do not report until the summer.
Barry Gardiner | 460 c76-7 (Link to this contribution) In the global battle to combat climate change, no Government have done more than this Labour Governm...
Barry Gardiner | 460 c77-81 (Link to this contribution) I would like to do so, but I cannot, given the plethora of responses that I need to make to points r...
Ian Pearson | 460 c50 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The Government want the refurbishment of existing schools to receive as much attention as effor...
Ian Pearson | 460 c50 (Link to this contribution) Let me give the hon. Gentleman the figures first. Preliminary data suggest that household emissions...
Sharon Hodgson | 460 c65-7 (Link to this contribution) I think Labour Members can all agree that we are grateful to the Liberal Democrats for choosing to h...
Martin Horwood | 460 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) So there are no actual policies. It is difficult to maintain a cross-party consensus on policy becau...
Subjects
Aviation
Air pollution
Climate change
Carbon dioxide
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department of Trade and Industry
Housing
Finance
Energy
Pollution control
Taxation
Research
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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