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Climate Change: Cancun

Debate between Lord Howard of Lympne and Lord Eden of Winton
Monday 13th December 2010

(13 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Eden of Winton Portrait Lord Eden of Winton
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My Lords, while acknowledging that getting so many nations to agree—

Lord Howard of Lympne Portrait Lord Howard of Lympne
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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?