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Environmental Transformation Fund

EDM number 1621 in 2007-08, proposed by Mark Durkan on 20/05/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Climate change, Environmental protection and International development.

That this House recalls the wide welcome in November 2007 for the Prime Minister's announcement of an £800 million fund to help the world's poorest countries adapt to climate change; notes that this environmental transformation fund was widely expected to be administered as direct grants to countries experiencing droughts, storms and sea level rises associated with climate change; is concerned that the Government now intends that this money will be administered by the World Bank mainly in the form of concessionary loans which poor countries will have to repay to the UK with interest; believes that inviting poor countries to incur new debt to cope with climate change contradicts the logic of debt cancellation; notes the plans to promote the environmental transformation fund as a showpiece contribution to developing countries at the G8's meeting in Japan in July; welcomes the indications that some other countries favour grants rather than loans as the working basis of such a fund; calls on the Government to renew the spirit of its principled past endeavours on making poverty history, debt cancellation, transforming aid and leading on climate change; and urges Ministers to commit to this fund in the form of direct grants and as additional aid.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mark Durkan20/05/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartyProposed
David Drew20/05/2008StroudLabourSeconded
Eddie McGrady20/05/2008South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Andrew George20/05/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Andrew MacKinlay20/05/2008ThurrockLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley20/05/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
David Taylor21/05/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Rudi Vis21/05/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Hywel Francis21/05/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore21/05/2008HendonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer21/05/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Alan Meale21/05/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell21/05/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Elfyn Llwyd21/05/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Lynne Jones21/05/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Paul Holmes21/05/2008ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Gregory Campbell21/05/2008East LondonderryDUPSigned
Bill Etherington02/06/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Betty Williams02/06/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn03/06/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Janet Dean04/06/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Joan Walley04/06/2008Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell05/06/2008Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock09/06/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson11/06/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin11/06/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Julie Morgan13/06/2008Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
John McDonnell23/06/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Eric Illsley26/06/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ann McKechinUnknownWithdrawn

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