Parliamentary search - Rio+20 Summit

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Parliamentary proceeding

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541 c221-61

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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House of Commons chamber

Preparations for the Rio +20 summit. Environmental Audit Select Committee eighth report, with formal minutes and written evidence.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Preparations for the Rio +20 summit: Government response to the eighth report from the Committee. Environmental Audit Select Committee fifth special report 11 January 2012. (Vote)
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 541 c226 (Link to this contribution) Order. Please resume your seats. Ten Members want to speak. If everybody takes 10 minutes, plus the ...

Fiona O'Donnell | 541 c254-7 (Link to this contribution) May I reassure the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Zac Goldsmith) that I was more concerned that he m...

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Lord Benyon | 541 c257-8 (Link to this contribution) I should like to start by thanking the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Joan Walley) for securi...

David Burrowes | 541 c249-51 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for missing some of this excellent debate, but it was for a good reason. I was meeting r...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 541 c251-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate and thank the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Joan Walley), not only for initia...

Peter Aldous | 541 c248 (Link to this contribution) The Government's policy is a mixed-energy approach—that is, nuclear, renewables and carbon capture, ...

Mark Lazarowicz | 541 c248-9 (Link to this contribution) I share in the compliments that many Members on both sides of the House have paid to the Committee C...

David Mowat | 541 c247 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is using the terms ““green economy”” and ““renewables”” as though they were the same ...

Fiona O'Donnell | 541 c258 (Link to this contribution) The Minister cannot have it both ways. He cannot come to this House singing the praises of his Depar...

Lord Benyon | 541 c258 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a bit of progress, if the hon. Lady will allow me. We have established the green inv...

Lord Benyon | 541 c260 (Link to this contribution) I have only a minute left, but I must give way to the hon. Lady.

Joan Walley | 541 c260 (Link to this contribution) I hoped that, before our time ran out, the Minister would tell us whether the Prime Minister would b...

Lord Benyon | 541 c261 (Link to this contribution) A very strong message has been conveyed by this debate. The hon. Lady knows that I cannot give an ab...

Lord Benyon | 541 c260 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry; I cannot give way. We know that UK businesses are world leaders in green growth. Marks ...

Martin Horwood | 541 c243 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree with the economist Kenneth Boulding, who said:"““Anyone who believes expone...

Caroline Lucas | 541 c243-5 (Link to this contribution) I will forgive the hon. Gentleman for taking one of my best lines, but I think that that is a very i...

George Eustice | 541 c241-2 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with that, and I was going to discuss it, because we do not spend anywhere near e...

George Eustice | 541 c240 (Link to this contribution) As this debate has shown, there is considerable scepticism about the prospect of getting much change...

Mark Spencer | 541 c240 (Link to this contribution) One of the major challenges that we, as a western democracy, face is that some of the things that we...

Martin Horwood | 541 c239 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the hon. Gentleman in making that call. The Government may have been right to rej...

Alan Whitehead | 541 c239-40 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. I appreciate his continuing loyalty to his adopted coalition on the iss...

Mark Spencer | 541 c226-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall do my best to be as brief as possible, Mr Deputy Speaker, to allow colleagues time. I first...

Martin Caton | 541 c228-31 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Environmental Audit Committee under the committed leadership of my hon. Friend th...

Graham Stuart | 541 c231-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the previous speakers. The Earth Summit in 1992 was a timely and signifi...

Joan Walley | 541 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the opportunity to open this debate on behalf of the Environmental Audit Comm...

Graham Stuart | 541 c222 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that as we are a global leader in embedding natural capital in the national...

Joan Walley | 541 c223-6 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for that intervention, especially as it comes from the hon. Gentleman, who plays ...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 541 c233-5 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuart) in this important ...

Martin Horwood | 541 c235-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley) and all the other speakers...

Alan Whitehead | 541 c237-9 (Link to this contribution) The Rio summit of 1992 represented what many people saw as a comprehensive programme of aspiration t...

Lord Benyon | 541 c258-60 (Link to this contribution) I will come on to that. I said a little earlier that the hon. Lady had misread the mood of the House...

Caroline Lucas | 541 c242-3 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for the opportunity to take part in this debate, and, as a member of the Environm...

Peter Aldous | 541 c245-7 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Environmental Audit Committee, I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in t...

Subjects

Climate change

Environment protection

Forestry

Sustainable development

Conferences

UN Conference on Sustainable Development

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