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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the carbon dioxide emissions of (a) China, (b) India, (c) the US and (d) the UK were as most recently reported for the purposes of the Kyoto and Montreal agreements; and what projections have been made for...

Asked by

Philip Hollobone (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 February 2006

Reference

39789; 443 c265W;443 c265W

House

House of Commons

Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Asked by

Philip Hollobone (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 December 2005

For answer on

9 January 2006

Answered on

12 January 2006

The following table shows historical and projected carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions in million tonnes of CO2 (MtCO2 ) for China, India, the USA and the UK.Emissions estimates are submitted under the United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) which is the parent treaty for Kyoto protocol and the Montreal decisions, and also covers the US which has not ratified the protocol.The USA and UK are annexe 1 parties to the UNFCCC, and submit emissions inventories annually; the most recent year for which data are available is 2003. China and India are non-annexe 1 parties to the UNFCCC; the most recent data they have submitted is for 1994. The table also provides US and UK CO2 emissions for 1994 from UNFCCC submissions for comparison. The data in the table cover all sectors including land-use, land-use change and forestry as reported by the country. The UK's data have been updated for consistency with the information provided in June 2005 to the European Union.The USA and UK have submitted projections to the UNFCCC for CO2 emissions in 2020, but China and India have not. Projections to 2050 are not available for any of the countries, although the UK policy, as set out in the 2003 Energy White Paper, is to put ourselves on a path to a reduction of some 60 per cent. by 2050.

	CO2 emissions (MtCO2)
Country	1994	2003	2020
China	2,666.0	n/a	n/a
India	793.5	n/a	n/a
US	4,327.8	5,013.5	6,763.0
UK	559.8	555.9	524.7
n/a=Not available.

The International Energy Agency provides estimates of projected emissions from use of fossil fuels which indicate, for China and India respectively, increases of about 210 per cent. and about 240 per cent. over the period 1994 to 2020. Fossil fuels account for the majority of CO2 emissions but do not include land-use, land-use change and forestry which in 1994 reduced emission from China by about +5 per cent. and increased those of India by about 8 per cent.

Date

12 January 2006

Reference

39789; 441 c749-50W

House

House of Commons

Biosafety Protocol

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what representations he has made to (a) the United States, (b) Argentina and (c) Canada regarding their ratification of the Biosafety Protocol.

Asked by

Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 December 2005

Reference

440 c2502W; 38756

House

House of Commons

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on her discussions with the US administration on climate change strategies.

Asked by

Bob Spink (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 December 2005

Reference

35379; 440 c1597W;440 c1597W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action her Department is taking in connection with the failure of the US Administration to notify the UK before March of the import into the UK since 2001 of GM maize containing an antibiotic resistant marker of...

Asked by

Michael Meacher (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

4 April 2005

For answer on

7 April 2005

Answered on

7 April 2005

Mr. Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what action her Department is taking in connection with the failure of the US Administration to notify the UK before March of the import into the UK since 2001 of GM maize containing an antibiotic resistant marker of a type that the EU had been advised to phase out; and what steps her Department is taking to prevent a recurrence of such an event with reference to (a) regulatory controls in the US and (b) the implementation of controls in the EU. [224888] Mr. Morley: This relates to the incident in the USA where some batches of Syngenta's GM maize seed intended to be Bt11 actually contained an unapproved GM maize event known as Bt10. We were informed of this incident on 22 March and issued a press release on 23 March. Our understanding is that between 2001-04 approximately 15,000 hectares of Bt10 was grown in the USA and most of the resulting grain was used in the USA. Only 18 per cent. of US corn is exported and the levels of maize exported from the US to the EU are very small indeed. The European Commission has been informed that an estimated 1,000 tonnes of Bt10 food and feed products may have entered the European Union (as distinct from the UK) since 2001. We have no evidence at this stage of any import of Bt10 into the UK. We are unaware of the original source of the figure of 170,000 tonnes which you quote. There is no evidence that 170,000 tonnes of Bt10 maize has been imported into the UK; and indeed this figure is an order of magnitude higher than the total annual maize imports into the UK from the US, which are in a range of 4,000 to 14,000 tonnes annually. Following Syngenta's disclosure on 22 March, Defra and the Food Standards Agency have been working with the European Commission and the US authorities to gain information on whether or not any contaminated maize has been imported into the UK. We continue to monitor the situation closely. We have written to maize importers to remind them of the need to check imports of maize and other crops for the presence of GMOs which have not been authorised in the European Union. It is for EU and UK importers to satisfy themselves that imported maize grain and derived products are approved for use and if material is GM that it is appropriately labelled. Our GM Inspectorate and local authority inspectors oversee this process. We understand that the US authorities consider that Bt10 does not present any concerns for human or animal health. Bt10 maize does contain an antibiotic resistance marker gene (which is not present in Bt11). Although the antibiotic resistance marker is in the process of being phased out, the European Food Safety Authority has concluded that this antibiotic resistance marker gene would have minimal, if any, impact on human health if present in GM plants. I should stress that we take incidents of this kind seriously. We do monitor the supply chain records of GM imports and take immediate action if evidence or information indicates the presence of any unauthorized GM product. Our priority is to protect the consumer and environment and ensure there is informed consumer choice.

Date

7 April 2005

Reference

432 c1663-4W;432 c1659-60W; 224888

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the US Administration about its policy on countries entering into international environmental agreements as a condition of bilateral trade agreements.

Asked by

Lord Deben (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 February 2005

Reference

430 c1657W; 213227

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the latest position in respect of the ghost ships at Hartlepool, indicating what action she plans to take.

Asked by

Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

31 January 2005

Reference

210977; 430 c578W

House

House of Commons

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on global warming and climate change

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on global warming and climate change.

Lead member

Alan Meale

Answering member

Elliot Morley

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Adjournment debates

Date

18 January 2005

Reference

429 c191-215WH

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her counterpart in the US Administration; and what the outcome of those discussions was.

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 December 2004

Reference

204896; 428 c1517W;428 c1515W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what studies the Government has made of (a) sulphur dioxide and (b) nitrous oxide trading in the United States; and what conclusions it has drawn.

Asked by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2004

Reference

203666; 428 c992W;428 c992-3W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on collaboration between the Carbon Trust and the Clean Energy Group.

Asked by

Stephen O'Brien (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 December 2004

Reference

202143; 428 c674W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the continued presence of the four ghost ships at Hartlepool; and under what legal basis they remain there; for what reason the weather window afforded by summer has not been used...

Asked by

Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 October 2004

Reference

425 c92-3W; 189559;189560;189561

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on (a) the four ghost ships moored in Hartlepool and (b) proposals for a further nine former US navy ships to be dismantled in Hartlepool.

Asked by

Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 September 2004

Reference

424 c1677-8W;424 c1675-6W; 188433

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will place in the Library a copy of the environmental assessment underlying the decision that dismantling of the US ghost ships on Teesside is now the preferred environmental option; what views have recently been expressed on...

Asked by

Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 May 2004

Reference

421 c341W; 169857

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answered by

Elliot Morley (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

22 April 2004

Reference

420 c435-6

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answered by

Elliot Morley (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

22 April 2004

Reference

420 c435-6

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on responsibility for the US ghost ships in the UK.

Asked by

Alan Simpson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

22 April 2004

Reference

420 c435-6; 167019

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by when she expects the seasonal weather to be appropriate to allow the return of the four ghost ships from Hartlepool to the United States. - (Holding answer 5 March 2004).

Asked by

Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2004

Reference

419 c705W;419 c707W; 158914

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Suffolk Coastal, of 29th January, Official Report, 417 c494W, on US vessels, what discussions took place with (a) the US authorities and (b) the US Marine Administration before the...

Asked by

Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 March 2004

Reference

153328; 418 c1767W;418 c1769W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she intends to instruct that the four ghost ships moored in Hartlepool be returned to America. - (Holding answer 29 January 2004).

Asked by

Caroline Spelman (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 February 2004

Reference

418 c123W;418 c150W; 151641

House

House of Commons

Librarians' tools

Type

House

Session

Year

Department

Member

Primary member

Answering member

Legislative stage

Legislation

Subject

Publisher