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Climate Change Act 2008 (2020 Target, Credit Limit and Definitions) Order 2009

Debates on delegated legislation on Wednesday, 13 May 2009, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. The answering member was Baroness Wilcox.
Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (2020 Target, Credit Limit and Definitions) Order 2009. Lords debate on a motion to approve. Agreed to on question. Debated with draft Carbon Budgets Order 2009 and draft Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009. [Relevant documents: 12th report from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and 15th report from the Merits Committee]

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Reference

710 c1045-73 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Lawson of Blaby | 710 c1072 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would not intervene in the Minister’s lengthy speech—as we were reminded not to do by hi...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1072 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord about transparency. Clearly, some of the measures that have to...

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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the order that we are debating is entirely consistent with the Climate Change Act, which h...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 710 c1072 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister gave way. This is an important question because it involves cost to ordinary ...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 710 c1071 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thought I heard the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford—
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1068 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think I can be held responsible for those events. All I can say is that the IPCC’...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 710 c1068 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Minister recall that exactly 40 years ago—after all, we are projecting ahead 40 y...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1068 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think I will. It is essential that we as a country, jointly with other countries,...
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 710 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister does not want to mislead the House. The consensus to which he refers is not a...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1071 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not want to go back over what I said about the benefits of a low-carbon economy. I ag...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 710 c1071 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend for his clarification and assurance on tracking the ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1068-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not going to walk into that one. The research and analysis continue, we think that th...
Earl of Onslow | 710 c1068 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister said something very important there: the word "objectivity". If—this is just ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1067 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been an absolutely splendid debate, and how grateful I am to the business managers ...
Baroness Wilcox | 710 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Filkin, and the Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee for...
Lord Teverson | 710 c1064-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may interrupt this fireside chat and move on to the order. From these Benches, w...
Lord Berkeley | 710 c1063-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened with great interest to the debate, which has been a bit like a Second Read...
Lord Leach of Fairford | 710 c1064 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may quickly answer those pertinent points. The big ice melting was about 12,000 ...
Lord Berkeley | 710 c1064 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord. Will he explain what is causing the sea to expand? P...
Lord Leach of Fairford | 710 c1064 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords, with the recovery from the little ice age that I referred to earlier, that is at abou...
Lord Leach of Fairford | 710 c1061 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I said that more than 30,000 had signed a petition coming out in public. I referred to a f...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 710 c1061 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I stand corrected and I withdraw that remark, but the fact is that there is, whether one l...
Earl of Onslow | 710 c1061-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government are introducing legislation now that is due to have effect in 2050. I just ...
Lord Freeman | 710 c1062-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not going to follow the arguments from my much more experienced colleagues, although ...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 710 c1060 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is an issue of the Government against the real world and I certainly would not wish ...
Lord Marlesford | 710 c1059-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are very grateful to my noble friend Lord Lawson for challenging the Government on the ...
Lord Leach of Fairford | 710 c1058-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if I may say so, that is a perfect example of unsubstantiated assertion and anecdote. The ...
Lord Leach of Fairford | 710 c1057 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord would let me finish the sentence that I was in the middle of, I can say ...
Lord Teverson | 710 c1057 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are talking about facts and observations. I am a simple person in this area, but one fa...
Lord Leach of Fairford | 710 c1056 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lea, referred to ships passing in the night, and rightly so on the ec...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 710 c1056-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, but as regards ships passing in the n...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 710 c1053-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, no, no—everyone knows that that is a good mark for some of us to give to the Government. B...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 710 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that at some point in the future the noble Lords, Lord Lawson, Lord Stern and Lord ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1045 (Link to this contribution) That the draft order laid before the House on 22 April be approved. Relevant Documents: 12th Report...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 710 c1045-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to all three statutory instruments on the Order Paper in my name. Noble Lord...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 710 c1072 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister has been winding up for more than 20 minutes and, other than contributions fr...
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 710 c1050-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Government for ensuring that these statutory instruments, of which th...

Subjects

Climate change
EU action
EU emissions trading scheme
Standards
Carbon emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions

Legislation

Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009
Carbon Budgets Order 2009
Climate Change Act 2008 (2020 Target, Credit Limit and Definitions) Order 2009

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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