Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Daisy Cooper and Richard Graham

Wednesday 2nd November 2022 Commons Chamber

[Daisy Cooper (St Albans) (LD)]

1. What steps he is taking to help ensure that international partners deliver on the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use commitments.

[Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con)]

14. With reference to the Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, what recent steps he has taken with international partners to conserve forests.

[The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Dr Thérèse Coffey)]

Through the Glasgow leaders’ declaration, 145 countries, representing 90% of the world’s forests, committed to ending and reversing deforestation this decade, and we secured $20 billion of public and philanthropic finance to help them. We also secured a commitment from the world’s biggest traders to stop buying commodities grown on illegally deforested land. At COP27, the world leaders who made that pledge are gathering again to report back on progress and agree next steps.