Environment Bill
Debate between Earl of Kinnoull and Baroness ParminterWednesday 8th September 2021
(3 years, 3 months ago)
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The Earl of Kinnoull (CB)
My Lords, I want, very briefly, to support Amendment 11. The whole point of this Bill is that it is going to be ready for the COP 26 meeting. It is a model Bill. It is something that we hope that other countries will adopt as a method of dealing with very difficult problems.
It seems to me in business experience that if you have long long-term targets, interim targets are very helpful. Therefore, as a necessary logical consequence, one would want the model Act to have such interim targets as well—the exemplar we would want other countries to follow. As I am sure we will be managing the thing in a logical way and therefore managing it with interim targets and would want other people to do that as well, it is logical that we should have these targets.
Baroness Parminter (LD)
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge, for her excellent opening remarks. As she rightly said, a number of us spoke at some length on this matter in Committee. We have had excellent expositions from her and supporting evidence from the noble Lord, Lord Deben, of the merits of this case and why we need these statutory targets. It is not just this House that is calling on them —business is calling on them. This is what it needs to make the changes in the future for our country and for the sustainability of companies. Given that time is tight, if the noble Baroness were to press this to a vote, she would have the support of these Benches.
Biodiversity: Impact of Neonicotinoids
Debate between Earl of Kinnoull and Baroness Parminter(3 years, 11 months ago)
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The Deputy Speaker (The Earl of Kinnoull) (Non-Afl)
The noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter.
Baroness Parminter (LD) [V]
My Lords, how is this decision compliant with the Aarhus convention on environmental justice, given that the application documents and the chief scientist’s advice to the Government are being kept secret, and that, while the NFU lobbied undercover, the public could not participate in the process?