§ Mr. DafisTo ask he Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make representations to the intergovernmental panel on climate change to ensure that764W cost benefit analyses applied to the issue of global warming do not value the lives of people in different parts of the world unequally.
§ Mr. AtkinsThe intergovernmental panel on climate change is currently preparing a revised assessment of scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the risks of human induced climate change, which will cover inter alia an assessment of methods for determining the costs and benefits of action to mitigate climate change. Drafts of IPCC's assessments will be subject to detailed review by experts and governments, and in reviewing the material that IPCC produces in this area, the Government will give careful consideration to the different assumptions that have been made.