Climate Change Convention

(asked on 25th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to submit a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) which is separate from the EU's NDC to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as required by the Paris Agreement after the UK leaves the EU.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 1st May 2018

The UK is firmly committed to the Paris Agreement and to our emissions reduction and climate finance efforts under it. We have demonstrated our commitment domestically – just last week I announced that we would submit our highly praised Clean Growth Strategy as the UK’s long-term strategy to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). I also announced our intention to seek the advice of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term emissions reduction targets after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes its Special Report on 1.5oC later this year.

The UK is a party to the UNFCCC individually as well as through the EU and we are bound by all the obligations of the Paris Agreement. This includes the requirement to prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions. A decision on the nature of a future UK NDC once we have left the EU is one of a number of issues we are currently considering carefully. We are looking forward to constructive discussions with the EU to ensure that we reach the best deal for the British people and for tackling climate change.

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