CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE WORLD'S POOREST PEOPLE

EDM number 761 in 2008-09, proposed by Colin Challen on 10/02/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Climate change.

That this House believes that 2009 is the most crucial and pivotal year for climate change, culminating with the UN's conference in Copenhagen in December; calls on the Government, as a matter of justice, to take the urgent action necessary to help the world's poorest people who are already suffering a range of impacts linked with a changing climate despite having contributed little to global emissions, in order to avoid further devastation to their lives and livelihoods; and further believes that in correcting this injustice the Government needs as a minimum firstly to accept the proposals laid out in the Committee on Climate Change's report, Building a low-carbon economy - the UK's contribution to tackling climate change, for targets for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emission reductions of 34 per cent. by 2020, with 42 per cent. if a global agreement is reached and 80 per cent. by 2050 and secondly, in recognition of the polluter pays principle, to supply finance for adaptation through international organisations in the form of grants rather than loans, and through a governance structure that comprises mainly of recipients.

This motion has been signed by a total of 53 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.