On Monday 19 June our 'Enabling sustainable electrification of the UK economy' inquiry hears from:
4.30pm
· Joanna Campbell, Assistant Director,
· Nick Winser CBE, Commissioner,
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The transcript for our 12 June hearing on The UK and the Arctic Environment has been published, and is available at: committees.parliament.uk/work/7323/the- 🔎
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Emily Hunter, : "It is very difficult to quantify the effect of #AirQuality on #biodiversity."
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., : "For too long we have focused on individual responsibility rather than social responsibility."
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Matthew Clark, : "the impact of the ultra low emission zone measures is now well documented"
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., : "There is enough evidence to say that we should be looking at school air quality and how to protect children in schools."
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Matthew Clark : "[The air quality consultation] didn't give us enough time to talk to stakeholders locally."
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., : "It's all very well to put duties onto local authorities, but if we are not given the powers to make people comply there is not much we can do."
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Prof Alastair Lewis, : "One of the really crucial sectors that will need to looked at in the future, along with the emissions from vehicles, is the emissions from our buildings"
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Professor Frank Kelly, : "There is a general lack of ambition behind the targets, and there has been for a long time."
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Professor Sir Stephen Holgate CBE, : "The health profession itself is poorly informed about air pollution."
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📺Our hearing on Outdoor & Indoor #AirQuality Targets has now started, and is available to watch live at bit.ly/46dzUA7
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Ahead of #CleanAirDay, today our Outdoor & Indoor #AirQuality targets inquiry hears from:
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@ERGImperial
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@RCPhysicians
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@The_CIEH
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Ahead of #CleanAirDay, today our Outdoor & Indoor #AirQuality targets inquiry hears from:
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We have published the transcript for our 7 June hearing on Environmental Change & #FoodSecurity.
The transcript is available here: committees.parliament.uk/work/7063/envi 🔎
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Ahead of #CleanAirDay, tomorrow afternoon our Outdoor and Indoor #AirQuality targets inquiry hears from:
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Today's meeting of our #PolarResearch sub-committee has finished ❄ The transcript will be uploaded later in the week, in the meantime video of the session can be found at bit.ly/3P0Gbsw
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Dr Iain Williams, : "[The Memorandum Of Understanding] avoids the double jeopardy where a research project needs to apply for funding from UKRI and from the Norwegian Research Council."
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The hearing has been temporarily suspended for votes in the House and will resume shortly.
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Henry Burgess, : "The Arctic, in many cases, is still radically under researched and under discovered."
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Henry Burgess, : "There is a need, a requirement, to study what's happening there [in the newly opened up Arctic Ocean]."
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Dr Anna Jones, : "The sea ice is changing so quickly, and the impacts of the loss of the sea ice are potentially really huge and they feed across the whole Arctic system."
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Professor Geraint Tarling, : "We wont be a major player in the Arctic unless we get lots of long term observations."
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., : "There are several tipping points in the climate system that we can't reliably predict."
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., : "UK science is punching well above our weight in the Arctic. We produce 10% of the world's science on the Arctic in our universities."
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Dr James Lea, : "We need to make sure we get the next generation of arctic researchers coming through."
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., : "We also need to be looking into the ethics of it. It's not just the natural sciences that need to be involved, but the social sciences also."
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Professor Geraint Tarling, : "The Changing Arctic Ocean programme did a lot of research on blue carbon, which mapped out areas of a lot of high carbon sequestration, which can help us to identify marine areas to protect."
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The hearing has been temporarily suspended for votes in the House and will resume shortly.
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., : "We have the Montreal protocol to thank, which has delayed the onset of sea ice free summers in the Arctic by about 10 years."
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📺Our Sub-committee’s hearing on The UK and the Arctic Environment has now started, and is available to watch live at bit.ly/3P0Gbsw
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This afternoon our sub-committee on polar research hears from:
4.15pm:
· @arcticfrontiers
· @AndyShep_CPOM
· Dr James Lea,@LivUni
· @BIOPOLE_NERC
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· @Arctic_Office
· @BAS_News
· @NERCscience
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This afternoon our sub-committee on polar research hears from:
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On Monday our sub-committee on polar research hears from:
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That concludes today’s hearing on Environmental Change & #FoodSecurity. A transcript will be made available on our website next week, and you can watch the recording of the session at bit.ly/3NfDcLH 📺
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Judicaelle Hammond, : "In terms of land use changes, anything is possible so long as farmers and land managers can see a viable commercial alternative."
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