§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport. what revisions of emission targets will be made to accord with the findings of the intergovernmental conference on climate control on human influence on the global climate. [10304]
§ Mr. ClappisonI have been asked to reply.
The UK target for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions remains that set down for all developed countries in the climate change convention—to return emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000—although we now expect to surpass this. For the period after 2000, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment has called for developed countries to agree to aim to reduce their emissions by a figure in the range of 5 to 10 per cent. below 1990 levels by 2010. He intends to take every opportunity to press his international colleagues to support that target and will he highlighting the important findings of the intergovernmental panel on climate change whenever he does so.