Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what role her Department is playing in preparations for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Paris in December 2015.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change is leading the Government’s preparations for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Paris, in December this year. Defra is actively supporting those preparations towards achieving an ambitious global agreement on climate change.