§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what activities the Government are pursuing through the United Nations to address world scale environmental concerns.
§ Mr. WaldegraveWe are pursuing through the United Nations, and its organs, a number of activities to protect the global environment. These include matters that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister raised when she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on 8 November 1989, not least preparations for the 1992 United Nations conference on environment and development and the work of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (established by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation). In June we will host the second meeting of the parties to the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer which, with its parent convention, is administered by the United Nations Environment Programme.