Sentences with phrase «ed davey»

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has appointed former secretary of state for energy and climate change, Ed Davey, as a consultant.

-- Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in address to Liberal Democrats in Glasgow

The fossil fuel industry was deeply «unsettled» by comments from energy secretary Ed Davey raising the prospect that their assets could be rendered worthless by global action on climate change, according to a letter of protest sent to the secretary of state.

The trouble for Ed Davey was that sooner or later all political flights of fancy inevitably have to face the «Pub Test».

His post discusses Andrew Neil's interview with Ed Davey, Dana's response, and also discusses the Cook et al. consensus paper.

And here, the actual wording of the EU deal is important, wording which Ed Davey claimed in The Guardian may actually be leverage to encourage action from others:

Britain's energy minister Ed Davey told The Guardian it was the most significant environmental agreement the UK has entered into, bringing coal - dependent nations like Poland onboard with cutting their emissions.

A minimum 40 % plunge in Europe's CO2 emissions by 2030 agreed by EU leaders last week was a «historic moment» on the road to a global climate deal, enabled by a new British relationship with Poland, the energy minister Ed Davey has told the Guardian.

On 18 June, Ed Davey made a speech at at Residence Palace, Brussels, which is published on the DECC website at https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/edward-davey-speech-ambitious-and-flexible-europes-2030-framework-for-emissions-reduction.

He speaks to the erstwhile Lib Dem SoS at DECC, Ed Davey, for his angry reaction, and to an green energy academic activist.

The public was able to make a choice about Ed Davey and his party.

This evening on my LBC show we discussed Ed Davey's outrageous idea that newspapers and broadcasters should refrain from giving a platform to climate change sceptics.

There is so much wrong with Ed Davey's rant, it is difficult to know where to begin.

I'd say that proves that the argument is far from won and that people like Ed Davey need to up their game.

«Climate change talks still on knife edge after a long night,» U.K. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey said on his Twitter feed before China and India spoke.

On the BBC program Sunday Politics, Andrew Neil hosted UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey for a discussion about climate science and policy.

UK energy secretary Ed Davey previously told the BBC that the rest of the UK would not pay Scotland's «energy costs to ensure its own security of supply».

Speaking to Carbon Brief earlier this year, former secretary of state Ed Davey described coalition negotiations over the fourth carbon budget as «a bit of a war».

Energy and Climate Change secretary Ed Davey says these proposals are «a radical shift» away from old policies of «tinkering at the edges» without tackling fuel poverty's root causes — homes that are too energy inefficient to be kept warm on a budget.

It is very clear, therefore, that Ed Davey (Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change) had both these men in mind when he spoke about the folly of people who deny the reality of anthropogenic climate disruption: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/04/2097641/uk-climate-minister-slams-media-and-blinkered-deniers-its-the-science-stupid/

Hence this statement in 2014 by Ed Davey, UK Secretary of State responsible for climate change negotiations:

Liberal Democrats boss Ed Davey said «The government is still committed to renewables including onshore wind».

The Treasury's stance has put the chancellor at loggerheads with the Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey, whose party strongly supports more renewable energy.

«The true cost of Car Wash is so much bigger than the eye - watering sums actually stolen,» said Ed Davey, investigative journalist at Global Witness.

Last year, it was former secretary of state Ed Davey who had this unenviable task.

Pitted against Energy Secretary Ed Davey, Mr Carter described the findings of the most authoritative report ever undertaken into the science of climate change — put together by hundreds of scientists around the world — as «hocus - pocus science».

In December, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey promised the North Yorkshire plant two lucrative «contracts for difference» — which would see it earn # 105 for every megawatt hour it generates, rather than the normal price of # 50.

Similarly, energy secretary Ed Davey has attacked some sections of the press for giving «an uncritical campaigning platform» to anyone sceptical of the consensus view on climate change.

In the remarkable case of Ed Davey, he was able to shut out data that may even be consistent with «the consensus» — the temperature hiatus, etc — not on the basis of an engagement with the science, but by invoking the consensus.

For instance here is a BBC interview in July 2013 with UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey:

Prime Minister David Cameron's promise to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership if re-elected would be a «disaster for environmental policy» Ed Davey, the secretary of state for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), said last night.

A new deal to tackle climate change expected to be agreed in Paris in December is unlikely to prevent dangerous climate change, energy secretary Ed Davey has warned.

Following Ed Davey's somewhat silly comments about the climate debate, I recently submitted an FOI request for more information.

It will have hugely strengthened Osborne's hand in his battle with Ed Davey.

The energy minister, Ed Davey was speaking at Renewable UK in Birmingham.

Ed Davey is obviously left of the environment ministry, directed by climate sceptic, Owen Paterson.

Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Climate Change Secretary, warned....

Fossil fuel investments could become the «sub-prime assets of the future,» warned British energy secretary Ed Davey.

Blundeston Primary School science teacher Ed Davey taking a hands on science lesson with pupils.

Managing our nuclear legacy: the # 67.5 billion question for Ed Davey, Lord Avebury blog for Lib Dem Voice, March 11, 2013

Energy ministers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates are at the conference, being hosted by U.K. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

That's how Ed Davey, the United Kingdom's Energy and Climate Minister, is describing the climate impacts of natural gas from shale formations: This report shows that the continued use of gas is perfectly consistent with our carbon budgets over the next couple of decades.

Trade and industry spokesman Ed Davey will take over from Mr Lamb, while continuing to chair the campaigns and communications committee.

Former energy minister Ms Rudd is promoted to take control of energy policy, a role held before the election by Ed Davey.

The Liberal Democrats also made gains in London as former government ministers Sir Vince Cable and Sir Ed Davey both won back the seats they had lost in 2015 to the Conservatives.

Transport spokeswoman Susan Kramer and campaigns chief Ed Davey are discussing possible bids with their families and colleagues, while Vince Cable, acting leader and Treasury spokesman, has yet to rule himself out.

Ed Davey: Davey, the Minister in charge of the Post Office, is very pro-enterprise, supportive of cuts and Steve Hilton's favourite Lib Dem as a result.

I suspect when Brake said he was lucky he was a / being modest (he must have run a good campaign) and b / alluding to the fact that he held on whilst Ed Davey and Paul Burstow lost on a similar vote share and Vince Cable with 3 % more than he got.

Energy secretary Ed Davey avoided answering questions about the Cameron idea as officials frantically considered how to draft the new policy into the forthcoming Energy Bill.

Other signatories to the letter include the former Treasury secretary David Laws, the former energy secretary Ed Davey and Lady Williams, the former Labour cabinet minster and now a Liberal Democrat stalwart in the Lords.