Climate Change: International Cooperation

(asked on 25th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to secure international action on tackling climate change.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
This question was answered on 2nd May 2019

The UK played a pivotal role in securing the Paris Agreement in 2015 and we continue to take a leading role internationally in forging agreements and leading by example. The UK pledged to provide at least £5.8bn of International Climate Finance (ICF) between 2016 and 2020, aiming for an even split between mitigation and adaptation – and placing us amongst the world’s lead providers of climate finance. The United Nations Climate Action Summit later this year will be an important moment in increasing global climate ambition and action. The UK is co-leading on the climate resilience and adaptation theme with Egypt, in partnership with Malawi, Bangladesh and the Netherlands. This is a crucial opportunity to propel an unprecedented shift in enabling government, businesses and people to adapt to and cope with climate shocks and stresses. We have also offered to host the international climate change negotiations in 2020, which will be critical for agreeing more urgent and ambitious action on climate change.

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