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Climate change

  • Debate Pack

    Opposition Day Debate: Climate change and flooding

    Tuesday, 15 December, 2015

    This pack has been produced ahead of the Opposition Day debate on Climate Change and Flooding which will take place in the Commons Chamber on Tuesday 15 December 2015. It has been updated to reflect the Opposition Motion published on 15 December.

    • Debate Pack
    • Climate change
    • Energy
    • Environment
  • Insight

    Paris Climate Conference: greenhouse gas emissions

    Thursday, 26 November, 2015

    • Insight
    • Climate change
    • Environment
  • Insight

    The Paris Climate Conference: Taking stock of greenhouse gas emissions

    Thursday, 26 November, 2015

    • Insight
    • Climate change
    • Environment
  • Debate Pack

    Preparations for the Paris Climate Change Conference

    Wednesday, 18 November, 2015

    This Debate Pack has been complied ahead of the Backbench Business Debate on Preparations for the Paris Climate Change Conference to be held in the Commons Chamber on Thursday 19 November 2015. Debate packs are produced quickly after the announcement of parliamentary business. They are intended to provide a summary or overview of the issue being debated and identify relevant briefings and useful documents, including press and parliamentary material. More detailed briefing can be prepared for MPs on request to the Library.

    • Debate Pack
    • Climate change
    • Energy
  • Debate Pack

    Debate pack: Coastal flood risk

    Friday, 03 July, 2015

    This debate pack has been compiled ahead of the debate on Coastal flood risk to be held on Tuesday 7 July 2015 at 9.30am in Westminster Hall. The Member in charge of the debate is Melanie Onn. Debate packs are produced quickly after the announcement of Parliamentary business. They are intended to provide a summary or overview of the issue being debated and identify relevant briefings and useful documents, including press and parliamentary material. More detailed briefing can be prepared for MPs on request to the Library.

    • Debate Pack
    • Climate change
    • Environment
  • Research Briefing

    Key Issues for the 2015 Parliament

    Tuesday, 19 May, 2015

    This book examines the key issues facing the House of Commons over the course of the 2015 Parliament - from the public finances to the UK’s membership of the EU and from school places for children to climate change.

    • Research Briefing
    • Armed forces
    • Asia Pacific
    • Benefits policy
    • Business
    • Child care
    • Children and families
    • Climate change
    • Communities
    • Consumers
    • Crime
    • Culture, media and sport
    • Defence
    • Defence policy
    • Demography
    • Economic policy
    • Economic situation
    • Elections
    • Energy
    • Europe
    • Family law
    • Farming and fishing
    • Finance
    • Further education
    • Government
    • Health services
    • Higher education
    • Housing and planning
    • Immigration
    • Industry
    • Institutions
    • International trade
    • Justice
    • Middle East
    • Parliament
    • Pensions
    • Pre-school education
    • Press and media
    • Prisons
    • Public spending
    • Rail
    • Schools
    • Sciences
    • Security
    • Tax
    • Technology
    • The EU
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Infrastructure Bill: Energy and Climate Change measures

    Friday, 23 January, 2015

    The Infrastrucutre Bill 2014-15 provides a number of new powers and regualtions that relate to energy and climate change. The note provides information on some of these for the Commons Report stage debate.

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Energy
    • Environment
  • Research Briefing

    Lima Climate Change Conference

    Monday, 01 December, 2014

    The UNFCC conference on climate change will take place in Lima in December 2014. The aim is to agree a gloabl limit on emissions to be agreed in Paris in 2015 and implemented in 2020

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
  • Research Briefing

    Carbon capture and storage

    Wednesday, 23 July, 2014

    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) generation is not yet proven on a large scale, and nor is storage long-term, despite a series of UK Government and EU initiatives aimed at incentivising its development. In March 2013 Peterhead (Aberdeenshire) and the White Rose Project (Yorkshire) were named as the two preferred bidders in the latest UK CCS Commercialisation Programme Competition.

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Energy
  • Insight

    Weathering a storm of extremes

    Wednesday, 04 June, 2014

    • Insight
    • Climate change
    • Environment
  • Research Briefing

    The Green Deal

    Thursday, 06 February, 2014

    This paper describes the Government's Green Deal energy efficiency policy. The Government has since decided to stop funding the Green Deal Finance Company (GDFC) which was set up to lend money to Green Deal providers.

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Energy
  • Research Briefing

    Nuclear power

    Thursday, 24 October, 2013

    On 21 October the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change announced that agreement had been reached with EDF to build the UK's first new nuclear power station since Sizewell B was commissioned in 1995.

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Energy
  • Research Briefing

    Energy Bill 2013 – update for Report stage

    Thursday, 30 May, 2013

    The current Energy Bill now has its Report Stage scheduled, for 3 June 2013. This note provides an update to some of the more controversial areas, and to previous Library research briefings on the Bill.

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Energy
  • Research Briefing

    Deepwater and Arctic oil drilling

    Thursday, 20 September, 2012

    This note outlines several examples of how previously inaccessible sources of hydrocarbons are now starting to be exploited, the regulatory regimes that surround this and the increasing controversy over drilling in the Arctic.

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Energy
    • Environment
  • Research Briefing

    Antarctica: the treaty system and territorial claims

    Wednesday, 18 July, 2012

    The unique treaty system that protects the Antarctic is constantly updated and sometimes challenged. A current Private Member’s Bill would implement recent changes in the UK.

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • International law
    • Overseas territories

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