Climate Change Convention

HL Deb 13 November 1997 vol 583 c42WA

Lord Judd

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What action they will propose at the Third Climate Change Convention in December to remedy the failure of most industrialised countries to provide the "new and additional resources" for ecologically sustainable development in the less affluent nations which were promised at the Earth Summit in 1992.

Lord Whitty

We do not propose to announce specific action at the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). However, we shall provide the necessary resources for our development programmes, including those aspects concerned with the protection of the global environment. We are also fully committed to a substantial replenishment of the global environment facility, which provides the financial mechanism for the FCCC, and shall encourage other industrialised countries to follow our example.