Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Foreign Secretary on progress towards securing a global legally-binding treaty on carbon emissions reductions and international climate change.

I hold regular discussions with Ministerial counterparts, including my rt. hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, on the UN climate negotiations. The Department, as Whitehall lead, is working closely with the Foreign Office and its global network of climate attaches, to support the Government’s aim of securing an international, legally binding agreement with mitigation commitments for all through the UN in Paris in December 2015.