§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action is being taken by Her Majesty's Government and other European Governments to bring the United States back into the Kyoto Agreement. [157861]
§ Mr. BattleThe UK has raised climate change and the importance of the Kyoto Protocol at the highest levels in the US Administration. Our EU partners have also taken steps to persuade the Americans to remain in the Kyoto process; there have been bilateral contacts as well as a534W visit by the Environment Minister of Sweden, the Environment Commissioner and senior Belgian officials to Washington last week.
Over the period of the recently-launched US review of climate policy and in the run up the resumed international negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol in Bonn in July, the Government will continue strongly to urge full US participation in the international efforts to tackle climate change.