Climate Change: Conferences

(asked on 20th July 2016) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which (a) minister and (b) Government officials attended the Petersberg Climate Dialogue on 4 and 5 July 2016; and what the outcomes of that meeting were.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 5th September 2016

The UK was represented by Peter Betts, Director, International Climate Change at what was formerly DECC, now BEIS, and another government official.

The full conclusions of the meeting are published by the German government at:

http://www.bmub.bund.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Klimaschutz/petersberg7_conclusions_bf.pdf and included as an annex here to be published in the House Libraries.

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