§ 85. Mr. HagueTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what measures Her Majesty's Government have taken to secure international agreement on the need for action on the greenhouse effect.
§ Mr. TrippierWe actively support the work of the inter-governmental panel on climate change and in particular the United Kingdom chairs its working group on scientific assessment. The United Kingdom is leading efforts to gain support for an international framework convention on climate change. This was unanimously supported at the recent conference of environment Ministers in the Netherlands. Our leading role in promoting international initiatives on climate change was underlined by the Prime Minister's speech at the United Nations on 8 November.