Question

To ask the President of COP26, if he will make an estimate of the number of carbon miles that will be incurred by staff employed by the Government to host COP26; and what plans he has to offset those carbon miles.

COP26 will be carbon neutral, which is a requirement from the UNFCCC on the UK as Host Country. However, our main priority is to reduce the emissions from the Conference in the first instance. We are asking all of our staff and volunteers to use low-carbon travel options and will be offsetting the emissions associated with travel, including those in the run up to COP26, from the travel data collated once the event has been delivered.