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51 records in UK in 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many press or public relations officers are employed by (a) Ofgem, (b) the Oil and Gas Authority, (c) the Civil Nuclear Police Authority, (d) the Coal Authority, (e) the Committee on Climate
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he will take to ensure that the UK contribution to the $100 billion of climate finance referred to in the UNFCCC Paris Agreement conforms with Article 9, Paragraph 3 of the Agreement and is additional to t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to increase parliamentary engagement in the implementation of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the total UK financial commitment to the Green Climate Fund until 2030.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the total projected expenditure on (a) the feed-in-tariff scheme, (b) contracts for difference, (c) the Renewable Heat Incentive and (d) the capacity market mecha
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what wholesale price and carbon price forecast scenarios her Department uses when forecasting total projected expenditure of the Levy Control Framework.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which form of transport she used to travel to the COP21 climate change conference in Paris; and for what reasons she travelled by that mode of transport.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what resources were committed by the UK at the COP21 climate conference in Paris to help developing countries pay for repairing damage from extreme weather events caused by climate change.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which form of transport she used to travel to the COP21 climate change conference in Paris; and for what reasons she used that mode of transport.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the international aid budget she plans to allocate to support communities managing the consequences of climate change in each of the next five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what studies they are undertaking into the slowing of the Gulf Stream and the subsequent impact on climate change and extreme weather patterns in the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what form of transport she used to travel to the COP21 conference in Paris in December 2015; and for what reasons she used that form of transport.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what level of actual or projected overspend against original projections of expenditure under the Levy Control Framework she has identified for each year from 2014 to 2018; and in which of those
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much overspend against original estimates within the levy control framework has arisen from variations in (a) performance of offshore wind, (b) levels between strike price and reference pric
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what form of transport she used to travel to the COP21 conference in Paris in December 2015; and for what reasons she used that form of transport.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of her officials are engaged in preparing the Government's next Climate Change Risk Assessment.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what (a) presentation and (b) other documentary contribution her Department has made to the World Climate Summit held in Paris alongside the UN COP21.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recent flooding in the UK, the slowing of the Gulf Stream, and the COP21 climate talks in Paris, what strategy they have to address increasingly extreme weather patterns affecting the UK’s climate.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they plan to ensure that UK scientific institutions have the funds to collaborate with those in Arctic countries to monitor and predict the melting of permafrost and the release of methane; and what practical steps are
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what participation the UK has had in the sustainable innovation forum hosted by the UN Environment Programme as part of the COP21 climate change conference in Paris.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Prime Minister, which (a) business organisations and (b) non-governmental organisations he met during his visit to the COP 21 climate change conference in Paris on 30 November 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the implications for her polices of the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Communiqué presented by the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on behalf of the Prince of Wale
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information she holds on the number of countries calling for a commitment to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees; what the Government's policy is on limiting the long-term glob
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of (a) 1.5, (b) 2, (c) 4 and (d) 6 degrees of global warming on (i) countries belonging to the Climate Vulnerable Forum and the Alliance of Small Islan
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on how many occasions a special adviser in her Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the Paris climate change conference.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many civil servants in her Department are in the redeployment pool.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has for her Department's Future Fit Programme in each year between 2015-16 and 2019-20.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what projection she has made of a global temperature increases by (a) 2050 and (b) 2100 caused by greenhouse gas emissions trajectories (i) under current trends and (ii) if all Intende
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much of her Department's funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what training her Department has provided to staff on the family test; what other steps she has taken to raise awareness of the family test among staff of her Department; and if she will make a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what representations she has received from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate on the Paris Climate Conference; and whether she has evaluated that Commission's list of 10 opportunit
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the Government's policy is on negotiating legally binding targets at the Paris World Climate Summit 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department are engaged on work related to climate change in (a) posts around the world and (b) London.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the outcomes were of her visit to China in November 2015; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who she met during her visit to China in November 2015; and what was (a) discussed and (b) agreed at those meetings.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 November 2015
Today I am setting out my priorities for the UK’s energy and climate change policy for the coming Parliament and publishing the DECC Autumn Update which sets out our key priorities and the recent progress the department has made against them.Affordable, r...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 November 2015
Today my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Amber Rudd) has made the following statement.Today I am setting out my priorities for the UK’s energy and climate change policy for the coming Parliament and publishing the DECC ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what cost savings her Department is planning to make in the current financial year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her Department's spending on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising was in (i) 2014-15 prices and (ii) as a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her Department's expected underspend is against departmental expenditure limits in the current fiscal year; and what her Department's latest forecast of total AME spend is for this year com
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the prospects of a long-term global carbon reduction goal being agreed at the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in 2014, what percentage of the International Climate Fund was spent on (1) low carbon development, compared to the original target of 30 per cent, and (2) adaptation, compared to the original intention of 50 per cent.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to ensure that civil servants respond to comments in the 2014 report on the UK's International Climate Fund (ICF) by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact that pressure to spend ICF funds quic
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that cost-effectiveness in spending improves as the International Climate Fund scheme expands.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many of her Department's policies have been assessed against the family test; what steps she has taken to publish the outcome of such assessments that have been carried out; and if she will
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps her Department is taking to implement the family test.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Prime Minister, whether he plans to attend the COP21 climate talks in Paris.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her policy is on the Global Goal on Adaption.