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Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

Topical debate on Thursday, 16 July 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Miliband. The answering member was Greg Clark.
Topical debate on preparation for the Copenhagen climate change conference. [Relevant documents: The Road to Copenhagen: The UK Government's case for an ambitious international agreement on climate change (Cm 7659) and The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan. Sixth Report from the Environmental Audit Committee, Session 2007-08, on Reaching an international agreement on climate change, HC 355, and the Government response, HC 1055, the Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 2008-09, on Reducing CO2 and other emissions from shipping, HC 528, and the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 2008-09, on Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, HC 30. Fifth Report from the International Development Committee, Session 2008-09, on Sustainable development in a changing climate, HC 177-I and -II.]
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Parliamentary proceeding
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496 c462-86 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
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House of Commons chamber
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Speaker | 496 c472 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next hon. Member to speak, I remind the House that Mr. Speaker has placed a...
Ed Miliband | 496 c462 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of preparation for the Copenhagen climate c...

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Charles Walker | 496 c462 (Link to this contribution) We have set some ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions—I think it is 80 per cent.—by 2050....
Joan Walley | 496 c463 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the key indicators is the extent to which capital fundin...
Ed Miliband | 496 c462 (Link to this contribution) It all depends on the actions that we take. Globally, there will be a significant increase in the po...
Ed Miliband | 496 c463 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and it is important that we are reforming the Infrastructure Planning Commission, which not onl...
Barry Sheerman | 496 c463 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend and I have been involved in environmental issues and campaigns against climate ...
Ed Miliband | 496 c463 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point about skills in the UK and elsewhere in the run-up to Copenh...
Peter Bone | 496 c467 (Link to this contribution) I have a problem on the question of biofuels. I thought that I was saving the planet by buying a bio...
Ed Miliband | 496 c467 (Link to this contribution) To give a rather unsatisfactory answer, it depends on the type of biofuels that are being used. I un...
Nia Griffith | 496 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) In the light of what my right hon. Friend has just said, it is possible that a forest the size of 64...
Ed Miliband | 496 c467 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to suggest that we need to be cautious on biomass—and, indeed, on biofuels g...
Ed Miliband | 496 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, because I must wind up. I apologise to my hon. Friend. We need a robust system...
Greg Clark | 496 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to meet the Secretary of State across the Dispatch Box for the second time in two d...
Ed Miliband | 496 c467 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious of that fact that I am no longer getting any extra time when I take interventions. In...
Paul Flynn | 496 c467 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Jamie Reed | 496 c466 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that Copenhagen will provide an opportunity for us to jettison busin...
Ed Miliband | 496 c463 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but then I want to make some progress—I feel like I am at the...
Nigel Evans | 496 c463 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Secretary of State wishes to promote renewables and as for wind-powered energy, I ha...
Ed Miliband | 496 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. That is why we made available £120 million yesterday to support, for example, the offsho...
Ed Miliband | 496 c464 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we think that getting to that higher number is feasible. Because of the plans that we announced...
Barry Gardiner | 496 c464 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know of the concern in developing countries that the resources required to...
Ed Miliband | 496 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) Obviously it is for the Opposition to speak for themselves, but my hon. Friend makes an important po...
John Mason | 496 c465 (Link to this contribution) Would the Secretary of State accept that patents are also part of the equation? If we could transfer...
Ed Miliband | 496 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman helps me to segue into my third point, which is about technology. For countries s...
Lord Deben | 496 c486 (Link to this contribution) First, if my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) is right, we will d...
Ed Miliband | 496 c470 (Link to this contribution) On the point about aviation emissions, which is relevant to the international deal, does the hon. Ge...
Greg Clark | 496 c469-70 (Link to this contribution) I think—[Interruption.] Well, I was certainly in the Conservative party in 1997. On questions like t...
Nia Griffith | 496 c469 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman tell me which power stations were built between 1979 and 1997?
Greg Clark | 496 c469 (Link to this contribution) That point again takes us back to yesterday's discussions. The difficulty we are in—it is one of the...
Greg Clark | 496 c470-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention, because what he has mentioned is exactly the proble...
Philip Hollobone | 496 c470 (Link to this contribution) I was happy to support the Climate Change Bill, but what does my hon. Friend say to those who point ...
Greg Clark | 496 c470 (Link to this contribution) Of course we agree that if we are going to have carbon budgets, they should include all sectors, but...
Colin Challen | 496 c469 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again on this subject. In what year would he esti...
Greg Clark | 496 c469 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. My assessment is that nuclear power is clearly a low-carbon sou...
Paul Flynn | 496 c469 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain why his party changed its view on nuclear power, seeing it now as a ...
Colin Challen | 496 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) It is pleasure to take part in this short debate on climate change. The fact that it is a short deba...
Colin Challen | 496 c474-5 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with that assessment. If my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State goes to ...
Lord Deben | 496 c473 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that even though everyone in the Chamber would honour the Secretar...
Paul Flynn | 496 c477 (Link to this contribution) As this is a topical debate, let me begin by quoting from a document that has been published in the ...
Simon Hughes | 496 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) Of course I applaud the Secretary of State and his colleagues for their work, but I will accept the ...
Greg Clark | 496 c471 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with one objective at Copenhagen, which is to set up a fund for adaptation, which ...
Barry Gardiner | 496 c471 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that developing countries have agreed that they should perform national...
Greg Clark | 496 c472 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that there is any disagreement between us. Additional resources for climate change ar...
Ed Miliband | 496 c472 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Brent, North (Barry Gardiner) made an important point. We should absol...
John Mason | 496 c479 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that, although that might be true for the United Kingdom as a w...
Lord Lilley | 496 c479 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newport, West (Paul Flynn), with whom I often find my...
Paul Flynn | 496 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) There are many mysteries in the personality of the French people that I do not understand. Many of t...
Lord Lilley | 496 c478 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that that French tidal power station has been there for at least 30 years. I...
Paul Flynn | 496 c478 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that contribution. I am familiar with the French nuclear power stations, but may I...
Colin Challen | 496 c478 (Link to this contribution) We are told that heat waves of the intensity of 2003 will become a regular occurrence by 2050, yet t...
Paul Flynn | 496 c478 (Link to this contribution) I accept that entirely. I am in a party that said in 2005 that nuclear was an unattractive option. I...
Simon Hughes | 496 c478 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was kind enough to remind the House that my party does not share the slightly sur...
Paul Flynn | 496 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) That is not what I said. The point I am making is about the economic case, and I also object on the ...
Jim Hood | 496 c477 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend's argument that the people of France are living in danger because 77 per cent. of ...
John Mason | 496 c484 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Peter Bone | 496 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North (Joan Walley) for keeping her comments br...
Peter Bone | 496 c484 (Link to this contribution) No, because I want other hon. Members to have the chance to catch Mr. Deputy Speaker's eye. Researc...
Lord Lilley | 496 c480-2 (Link to this contribution) Politicians, having committed themselves to the idea of climate change, invent the reasons to justif...
Speaker | 496 c480 (Link to this contribution) Order. We finish this debate at 1.55 pm and a large number of Members, all of whom wish to speak, ar...
Joan Walley | 496 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that the issue is whether we should do something about global warming. We are on the...
Speaker | 496 c482 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman has run out of time. I call Joan Walley.
Colin Challen | 496 c480 (Link to this contribution) I wonder why it would be convenient for politicians to want to invent climate change. Surely climate...
Lord Lilley | 496 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) That may well be the case and that is up to the Scots, but I am referring to the figures the Governm...
Ed Miliband | 496 c463 (Link to this contribution) I agree. The new carbon budgets regime that we set out yesterday could, in time, be extended to loca...
David Drew | 496 c462-3 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that we need real leadership at local authority level? As much as G...
Ed Miliband | 496 c466 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made a crucial point. I have been very conscious of this in the discussions that ...
Simon Hughes | 496 c464 (Link to this contribution) Because the Secretary of State hopes for a more ambitious outcome in Copenhagen, and because the Int...
Nigel Evans | 496 c484-6 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I will make a short contribution to an important debate in order to allow o...
Subjects
Climate change
Biofuels
Developing countries
Environment protection
Nuclear power
Population
Renewable energy
Technology
Tree felling
Carbon emissions
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