Sentences with phrase «change secretary said»

The energy and climate change secretary said the moves ensuring no new coal energy is permitted without CCS made the UK one of the most «environmentally ambitious» countries in the world.

«I am worried there is a tendency on the Conservative right wing, a significant part of its parliamentary party, that does not appreciate the importance of being at the table in Brussels when it comes to negotiating the rules for the single market — and does not understand the strength the EU gives us globally in tackling problems like climate change,» the energy and climate change secretary said.

Not exact matches

During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Wednesday, former Exxon Mobil (xom) CEO Rex Tillerson said climate change exists — its future impact is just hard to predict.

The United Nations» main Twitter page quoted Secretary - General Antonio Guterres as saying, «Climate change is undeniable.

«While he expressed his disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

Although the US military, Secretary of State Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis all say unequivocally that the US does not want or train for regime - change missions in North Korea, the president and the military have to do what's best for the country at any cost.

China must accelerate the pace of economic reforms, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said after the first day of talks between the two nations in Beijing, but his Chinese counterpart warned change will take time.

The proposed change provides a path to the eventual sale and deployment of self - driving vehicles in California, state transportation secretary Brian Kelly said in a statement.

Last week, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May gave a speech at the Conservative Party conference in which she said that, «When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.»

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

Just last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan said lawmakers were putting the «finishing touches» on a new health care bill — one that reportedly might scrap protections for people with preexisting conditions — while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reassured Americans they can soon expect to see proposals for «the most significant change to the tax code since Reagan.»

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Chief of Staff John Kelly has reassured West Wing staffers that there will be «no immediate personnel changes at this time,» despite media reports that National - Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, among others, will be replaced.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.

Secretary O'Neill said he believed the administration needed the flexibility to deal with changes in the international economic system and would oppose anything that reduces the administration's «flexibility.»

Commerce Secretary Mike Gill said some of the changes the agency is seeking this year are a response to the problems those reports highlighted.

He's always been tough, but he changed when he started to have national ambitions,» said George Arzt, former press secretary to Democrat Ed Koch, one of Giuliani's predecessors as New York City mayor.

In his opening remarks to dialogue, US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said China's $ 347 billion trade surplus with the US was not the product of market forces and that the bilateral trading relationship needed to change.

On Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, refused to say whether the tariffs would ultimately go into effect, adding, «I would anticipate that if there are no changes to the behavior of China and they don't stop the unfair trade practices, then we would move forward.»

The company, Canada's No. 2 pipeline operator, released a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other department officials saying that increased carbon levies for Alberta oil sands producers and new Canadian targets for greenhouse - gas emission cuts should serve to help assuage U.S. concerns that approving the C$ 8 billion ($ 6.41 billion) project would increase climate change.

There was some agitation in the WCC to find a new site for the assembly, but general secretary Konrad Raiser says that a change «would mean almost total loss of credibility» for the WCC among African churches (over seventy member churches are in Africa).

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.

«From Masagana 99 and high - yielding varieties in the 1960s, to Masagana 6000 and Golden Rice today, it seems nothing has changed,» said Antonio Flores, a farmer from Mindanao and secretary general of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas.

But APC deputy secretary general, Rahmat Ajiguna, said that «Syngenta, who owns the Golden Rice patents, can change the agreement regarding royalty any time they want adding that we can not trust any scientist or government officials with alleged financial ties to IRRI, Syngenta, Monsanto or to any agrochemical TNCs, whom we assumed to be lacking any credibility whatsoever.»

Former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty was recently quoted as saying some unions were still «protecting the 1980s» as «they can not make the changes».

Katie Wilson, USDA deputy under secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, said many schools requested these changes.

The former energy and climate change secretary criticised the Iraq war by saying UN weapons inspector Hans Blix should have been given more time to continue his work.

Commenting on the Welsh teaching union's decision to strike on October 5 over pension changes, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this:

But shadow environment secretary Peter Ainsworth hit back saying it was «disappointing» that Mr Huhne had «chosen to play party politics with the serious issue of climate change».

Environment secretary Hillary Benn said the line would help to take the fight against climate change into people's homes.

Television footage of the health secretary being heckled and jostled by angry protesters outside Downing Street yesterday could have attracted support from the 57 % of Lib Dems and 31 % of Conservatives who said they were opposed to the changes.

Earlier, Tony Blair expressed full confidence in the home secretary, saying the changes he was implementing would bring improvements.

The shadow foreign secretary admitted changing the Treaty of Rome would be an «enormous exercise» but said it should be something championed by the UK government.

«Whilst it is encouraging that student numbers have not decreased in our universities, it is extremely worrying that there has been no change in the number of students from the very backgrounds the government is spending considerable sums of money on persuading to apply,» UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said.

«For me this has been a phenomenal experience, I made history as the first Latino (in serving as Secretary of State) and we have reaped many successes because I've had a phenomenal employees but things change, the governor decided not to stand for election and me that was very important,» said Cortes - Vazquez, who also noted that his new job is but a continuation of their work to community service.

Tony Blair and Mr Miliband have repeatedly argued that annual targets would be too restrictive but the environment secretary said yesterday that legislation setting out the government's approach to climate change could be useful.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Only the NASUWT has continued to challenge governments across the UK on the unacceptable changes made to teachers» pension provision.

The deputy secretary - general of the United Nations says the Trump administration must be «brought back to the table» on climate change, despite repeatedly pledging to pull out of an agreement aiming to reduce carbon emissions.

«Parents and students will judge proposed changes to student finance on whether they make university more expensive or not,» UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said.

And Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Smith said Labour's Brexit policy is «deepening and evolving», in a further sign that the party is ready to change tack.

He clashed with the shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, who reminded the education minister about his comments in 2008, criticising ministers that had an ««it weren't me miss» attitude», and said that it was time to change this.

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.

Previous governments had backed away from going down such a route, Mr Cameron said, but he believed this would have to change so that, «in extremis», such material could be obtained with a signed warrant from the home secretary.

Labour's shadow communities secretary, John Denham, said: «The fund helped areas which saw rapid changes in population from migration.

Earlier this week, economic secretary to the Treasury Ed Balls said the EU was the only way to effectively deal with climate change, and he condemned David Cameron for being the most «anti-European» leader the Conservatives had ever had.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to allay fears of a military confrontation with North Korea, defending Trump's comments but also saying there's no sign that the threat level from North Korea had changed and that Americans should «sleep well at night.»

In a move predicted for several months and one that will no doubt intensify the believe that she is gearing up for another shot at the White House, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has changed her position on same - sex marriage, saying in a video recorded for the Human Rights Campaign that she now supports letting gay couples legally wed..

«As you know Labour are now in formal talks with the Liberal Democrats to see if we can agree a stable government to secure the economic recovery and change our politics,» the letter, signed by the joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson, said.

The UN Secretary General is quoted in the statement to have said that the summit would chart a new era of sustainable development in which poverty would be eradicated, prosperity would be shared and the core drivers of climate change would be tackled.

The National Secretary of the Junior Staff Union of the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG, Frank Adjetey Badu, says workers will not change their decision on government's planned concession of ECG.

Defence secretary Philip Hammond and Lady Warsi say changes to upper house should not be government's focus