Climate Change: Cancun

Debate between Lord Howard of Lympne and Lord Eden of Winton

Monday 13th December 2010 Lords Chamber

[Lord Howard of Lympne]

My Lords—

[Lord Eden of Winton]

My Lords, while acknowledging that getting so many nations to agree—

[Lord Howard of Lympne]

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend and the Government on their Statement. As someone who had the honour of representing the Government at the first earth summit in Rio in 1992, I well recollect how difficult these conferences can be. Now that the momentum lost at Copenhagen has to some extent been resumed as a result of the efforts which my noble friend has described, will he tell us a little more about what our Government, together with our partners in the European Union, intend to do between now and the Durban conference in order to maintain that momentum?