Sentences with phrase «change secretary told»

The Energy and Climate Change Secretary told a Fabian Society conference in London tough regulation was needed to curb the excesses of the markets.

In an announcement viewed by green campaigners as a key test of the coalition's credentials on the environment, the energy and climate change secretary told MPs progress would be reviewed before the end of the parliament.

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«I can imagine these changes would be really good for the morale for the Chinese diplomats at the foreign ministry at a time when the morale of the diplomats in the US foreign service is at an all time low,» Susan Shirk, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia, told Bloomberg.

Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans are the main cause for climate change.

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey led attacks against the Conservatives at the start of the Brighton conference, telling the Observer newspaper «tea - party Tories» were threatening his environmental agenda.

Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, also asked if asked if the prime minister would have «have the moral backbone to tell [Trump] he is wrong on climate change» when she visits him in Washington.

The foreign secretary told the Commons that he planned to talk to the Trump administration about the issue of climate change.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday told the U.S. Secretary of Commerce that the state will sue the Department of Commerce and fishery regulatory bodies if changes aren't made to the fluke quota, which he says hurt New York's economy and commercial fishing families.

Climate change secretary Ed Miliband could be forgiven for giving in to the huge temptation to tell cynical journalists: «I told you so.»

The shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, who represents Paisley and Renfrewshire South, told an audience at Glasgow University on Saturday that the time had arrived to make clear to the Scottish people that real change would follow a no vote.

Mandelson told David Miliband on Remembrance Day last year that Labour could not win with Brown if nothing changed, as the then foreign secretary raised fears of a major defeat.

He told his cabinet lieutenants it was «totally unacceptable», that work must start and secretaries of state must become «activists» to push through change.

On Sunday, the Lib Dem delegates flouted party history and voted in favour of building more nuclear power stations — energy secretary Ed Davey having told them this is vital to fight climate change — and also voted to support fracking, albeit with an amendment to ensure pollution levels were closely monitored and those local to fracking sites were properly consulted.

Mr Balls, the former schools secretary, told The Daily Telegraph that the invasion had been a «mistake» for which Britain paid a heavy price while Ed Miliband, the former climate change secretary, said it had resulted in a «catastrophic loss of trust» for Labour.

Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander was the first to resign, telling Jeremy Corbyn «a change of leadership is essential» if Labour is to win the next election.

Simon Hughes told the FT that he was «trusting [the chancellor and chief secretary] will find a way of squaring the circle that colleagues in my party can sign up to and that will send a message to colleagues around the edges that they can't suddenly change the game after the rules have been agreed».

However, the prime minister has maintained the treaty does not involve fundamental change that would require a referendum, and the foreign secretary David Miliband told the European Scrutiny Committee this week that the «the charter does not create new rights, it records existing rights».

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper tells the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was right to speak out about changes to the benefits system, describing the proposals as «immoral».

Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, and for Climate Change, Barry Gardiner recently told the BBC's Daily Politics «we have to make sure that those people who are in this country illegally are removed from this country... I'm very happy to see a target of the number of those people that we want to remove».

White House Secretary Robert Gibbs told journalists that recent signals of new commitments by China and India created possible momentum toward an agreement at the U.N. - led climate change talks that started Monday and are scheduled to conclude on December 18.

Four former environment and climate change secretaries from three parties told the Observer they had concerns about «toothless» plans announced by the government last week, which suggested the new post-Brexit green watchdog would lack the power to take the government to court.

The Observer has been told that the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, and the education secretary, Michael Gove, raised their concerns at last week's cabinet meeting, saying the changes, which are strongly backed by Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, should not be a legislative priority.

President - elect Donald Trump's choice as Energy secretary also told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considering his nomination that he has changed his view on climate change, now viewing human activity as a contributing factor while not stating that it is the primary driver.

«It may seem impossible, but you can get it done,» Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, told delegates.

On the other end of the spectrum is Brazil, which Secretary of Climate Change Carlos Klink told ClimateWire is actively participating in efforts to devise a post-2020 target.

The secretary in the office greeted me warmly, and told me there had been a change in assignment.

Rhode Island's basic profile had changed little by the time U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told a crowd of Rhode Island stakeholders in late 2011, «In math, Rhode Island's white students trail Iceland, Estonia, Slovenia.

Michael K. Yudin, the assistant secretary for the office of special education and rehabilitative services at the U.S. Department of Education told Samuels that the findings do not change the view of the department that significant overrepresentation of minorities in special education is a real problem.

Lib Dem sources have told the BBC that Mr Clegg argued for his proposed changes in cabinet but they were blocked by the education secretary.

But Kevin Courtney, NUT general secretary, told Schools Week the wording change «undoubtedly constitutes a weakening of the expectation around sprinkler fitting in new schools».

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told reporters that the pocket - change donation (which she called a «generous gift») will be used to host a camp for kids, focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

But Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has put school discipline back on the table by telling reporters she is «looking closely» at whether to change the 2014 federal guidance, which some conservative critics have blamed for sowing «classroom chaos.»

England's exam system needs further changes, Education Secretary Michael Gove has told MPs, amid reports of plans to return to O - level style exams.

Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, secretary general of the Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi, told an audience of travel trade professionals the tourism sector has a crucial role to play in reducing footprint carbon footprints and combating climate change.

Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, secretary general of the Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi (EAD), told an audience of travel trade professionals the tourism sector has a crucial role to play in reducing footprint carbon footprints and combating climate change.

DECEMBER 7 2015 - Calling climate change a defining issue of our time, United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon today told top government officials that the opportunity exists «to define our own destiny» at the UN climate change conference (COP21) in Paris.

«The objective for Paris is to keep the two degree limit within reach,» the secretary of state candidly told MPs on the parliamentary Energy and Climate Change Committee.

Tell Chris Huhne, the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, that the purpose of the Green Climate Fund is to support people in developing countries to fight against climate change and secure their lives and liveliChange, that the purpose of the Green Climate Fund is to support people in developing countries to fight against climate change and secure their lives and livelichange and secure their lives and livelihoods.

António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, told leaders and delegates when he opened the high - level segment of the UN conference on climate change, COP23 in Bonn.

«Park rangers have to follow the orders of our superiors, including the Secretary of the Interior and the President of the U.S. Thus, if they tell us that we can no longer talk about climate change on the job, we have to obey them.

However, Mark Dreyfus, the parliamentary secretary for climate change who led Australia's team in Doha, told RenewEconomy at the conclusion of the dramatic final plenary that there was no case for Australia lifting its ambition just now.

Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told reporters ahead of the agreement in Paris that it is not intended to «miraculously solve climate change» or single - handedly limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, but instead is meant to «chart the course towards that long - term destination&rChange (UNFCCC), told reporters ahead of the agreement in Paris that it is not intended to «miraculously solve climate change» or single - handedly limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, but instead is meant to «chart the course towards that long - term destination&rchange» or single - handedly limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, but instead is meant to «chart the course towards that long - term destination»:

A UN political operative telling us what the IPCC report will look like in 4 years: «Robert Orr, UN under secretary general for planning, said the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on global warming will be much worse than the last one.»

In 1989 Maurice Strong was appointed Secretary General of the Earth Summit and in 1992, addressing Earth Summit II in Rio, he told the thousands of climate change delegates: It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air - conditioning, and suburbanhousing — are not sustainable.

Denver Business Journal: The boom in oil and natural gas production in North America, largely due to the new technologies of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, is changing the balance of power across the world, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice told attendees at the Vail Global Energy Forum.

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told reporters at the event that Mr. Bloomberg was ideal for the role, noting that he «has made an enormous difference, and makes us believe that we will soon be running faster than climate change, that we will soon be starting to defeat climate change, that the Paris Agreement can be fully implemented but with an enhanced ambition».

Industry should play its part in the fight against climate change by persuading governments to aid carbon cuts rather than lobbying against them, the UN secretary - general told a business conference on Sunday.

Tom Harris wrote that UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon «exemplified the childish and deceptive nature of the UN's approach to climate change when [Ban Ki - moon] told reporters at this week's launch of the Synthesis Report in Copenhagen: «Human influence on the climate system is clear - and clearly growing.

Ursula Brennan, permanent secretary at the MoJ, told the House of Commons committee that «it was not possible to do research about the current regime» as the government was «explicit it needed to make these changes swiftly».