Chris Huhne Oral Statement to House of Commons on outcomes of Durban #COP17 climate change conference

Secretary of State Oral Statement on the outcomes of the Durban COP17 climate change conference

decc.gov.uk 12 Dec '11, 8pm

Chris Huhne Oral Statement to House of Commons on outcomes of Durban #COP17 climate change conference

With permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement on the outcomes of the United Nations climate change conference in Durban, which concluded just yesterday. I was present for the last week of the conference, along with my colleague the Minister of State for Climate Change [who cannot be at today’s statement as he is in committee]. Mr Speaker, after the disappointment of Copenhagen, last year’s Cancun conference showed that the UN climate process was back on track. The Durban conference was designed to build on that outcome, and our aims were therefore higher. At our most optimistic, we hoped to agree a roadmap to a new global legally binding agreement, to replace or supplement the Kyoto Protocol. Unlike Kyoto, this would incorporate emissions targets for all countries other than the poorest and least developed. This would be accompanied by agreement to a second commi...

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