Sentences with phrase «environmental audit committee»

The vote follows a report released earlier that day by the cross-party House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee calling for a ban on fracking due to the risks it poses to Britain's efforts to tackle climate change.

The Commons Environmental Audit Committee said Britain should introduce a sliding scale tax on plastic packaging with the hardest to recycle being charge most and the easiest to recycle being charged least.

Environmental Audit Committee chair Mary Creagh said: «Billions of pounds of investment is needed in clean energy, transport, heating and industry to meet our carbon targets.

The commons all party environmental audit committee published its harsh critique of the PBR's «lack of boldness» ahead of the Budget on Wednesday, in which Gordon Brown is expected to stress his green credentials.

A new report from the UK parliament's Environmental Audit Committee warns it could take years to bring these emissions under control.

My question was prompted as last week I attended Dr James Hansen's evidence session to the UK Environmental Audit Committee.

The cross-departmental Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) recently called for evidence on the role of HM Treasury in relation to sustainable development and environmental protection.

But a new report published today by the Commons Environmental Audit Committee gives a clear warning about the impact funding reductions can have on the ground.

14:15 - environment, food and rural affairs secretary Caroline Spelman before environmental audit committee, on: green economy

In November, when MPs on the Commons environmental audit committee asked Richard Callard, executive director of the Green Investment Bank shareholder team at the Department for Business, if a privatised bank could invest in fracking, he replied: «Technically it could.

Jutta Kill from the organisation FERN, who is today giving evidence to the UK parliament Environmental Audit Committee said that Government proposals to regulate offset companies misleadingly give the impression that there are bad offsets and good offsets.

«The consequence of the rushed, 11th - hour consultation will be uncertainty among investors in all kinds of renewable energy, which will inevitably push up the cost of capital,» environmental audit committee chair Tim Yeo said.

1 pm: Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary, and Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office minister, give evidence to the Commons environmental audit committee on sustainable development.

The Environmental Audit Committee said all disposable coffee cups should be recycled by 2023 and the containers should be banned if the target is not met.

Leaders of the conservation charity A Rocha UK described the idea tabled by the Environmental Audit Committee as «excellent news».

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THE Environmental Audit Committee has urged the UK Government to introduce a 25p levy on disposable coffee cups and for all coffee cups to be recycled by 2023...

Air pollution contributes to thousands of deaths across the country every year, but government promises to tackle the problem are failing, according to a new report by the environmental audit committee (EAC).

China is showing a «leadership» on climate change which the UK is lacking, the chair of the Commons» environmental audit committee has told Politics.co.uk.

[14] In Parliament, she has been a member of the Environmental Audit Committee and was on the Communities and Local Government Select Committee during the 2005 — 10 Parliament.

Joan Walley is Labour MP for Stoke - on - Trent North and chair of the environmental audit committee

Tim Yeo, chair of the environmental audit committee, gives his judgement on the government's cuts to solar energy tariffs:

The environmental audit committee is currently hearing evidence from scientists and environmentalists in the lead up to the Copenhagen summit.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee Mary Creagh argues the Government should follow parliament's lead and be bolder on plastic waste.

The call from Joan Walley, who chairs the Commons» environmental audit committee, comes as the opposition party draws up its policy on green issues ahead of next year's general election.

«The challenge that David Cameron will have, assuming he's prime minister next year, is this nightmare inheritance that he takes over,» Tim Yeo, chairman of the environmental audit committee and MP for Suffolk South, said.

The Commons» environmental audit committee (EAC), publishing a report on the issue today, said the number of health problems and deaths is a «national scandal».

Mr Letwin told the environmental audit committee there had been «an immediate national crisis in the form of less growth and jobs than we needed» that prompted the Budget's growth agenda.

Airport expansion plans and an over-reliance on buying in emission credits to meet domestic carbon targets are negatively affecting efforts to convince other countries to take a tough stand on climate change, the environmental audit committee has found.

Biodiversity loss in England remains severe despite government conservation attempts, an environmental audit committee report said today.

MPs on the environmental audit committee and the energy and climate change committee attacked ministers» «panicked changes» without adequate notice to consumers and installers.

Chamber of Shipping: Response to the Environmental Audit Committee report; «Reducing CO2 and other emissions from shipping»

Less commented on, but of equal importance, were the conclusions of an environmental audit committee report on personal carbon credits.

Environmental audit committee chair Joan Walley said the Chinese government had a «set of plans and the ability to deliver them» — in contrast to David Cameron's government, which she accused of paying «lip service» to the decarbonisation agenda.

The environmental audit committee's report on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) points to underperformance in the scheme so far, concluding the «record in reducing carbon emissions is far less impressive».

Tim Yeo, chairman of the environmental audit committee, concluded: «The government must not shy away from the truth that emissions trading in itself is not a miracle cure for global warming, nor will it be painless,» he added.

The Government's housing policy fails to recognise the importance of the environment, according to a new report from the Environmental Audit Committee.

In a highly critical report, the environmental audit committee warns of a «dismal failure of purpose» at the Department for Transport (DfT) in its efforts to tackle climate change.

Being in Opposition can be frustrating, but I believe that in my roles as Chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee and as Shadow Environment Secretary, I played a part in shifting political attitudes towards green issues.

19.00 John Bercow joins MPs from the Environmental Audit Committee, environmental scientists and activists at a debate ahead of the Rio Earth Summit in June at St Martin in the Fields in Trafalgar Square, London

Last month, a group of UK parliamentarians — the Environmental Audit Committee — condemned the rush to exploit the wilderness of the wild north.

The Environmental Audit Committee published a report today, recommending that the government introduce a 25 - pence (around USD$.34) «latte levy», or tax, on every disposable coffee cup.

(This is a suggestion from the Commons Environmental Audit Committee.)

The Sustainable Development Strategy: Illusion or Reality for the Environmental Audit Committee, 2004.