Margaret Beckett
Margaret Beckett
Dame Margaret Mary Beckett, DBEis a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliamentfor Derby South since 1983. She was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith 1992 to 1994, and briefly served as Leader of the Labour Party after Smith died suddenly. She later served in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of roles, becoming Britain's first female Foreign Secretary in 2006...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 January 1943
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The focus of our agenda for this meeting is on energy, and on how we can make better use of technology to make the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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We believe we can reach the 20% target with support from all sections of the economy and society.
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We face a timetable that is driven by nature, science and by the predicted effect of climate change on our world, not by our own negotiating processes.
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There are some problems remaining but what we have to be wary of is creating further problems ourselves.
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It is imperative that we find new ways to cooperate and develop a shared understanding of how the world can respond to climate change.
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It is excellent news that we will soon be able to increase our supplies of home-produced beef.
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Sustainable development is a key issue for the UK's Presidency, and at our meeting we will be talking about climate change and about how to make agriculture more sustainable.
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It is clear that for China and India the priority is (economic) development.
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You can almost never say that a particular event is caused by climate change,
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It will be essential, for China and for everybody else, to see if we can do something to allow them to use the resources that are available to them, but in a clean carbon way.
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The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory work.
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This campaign is about giving people confidence the work is being done.
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Technology is essential to make the transition to a low-carbon economy and targets ... have a vital role to play in driving forward that progress.