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1471002

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what steps the Government is taking to play a leading in role in delivering on the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forest and Land Use.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	19614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK Presidency is continuing to lead international collaboration on Forest and Land Use, building on progress made at COP26. We held an international ministerial meeting on 1 June in Stockholm and we are continuing to work with countries that have endorsed the Declaration to gather views on implementation. We are creating a space for countries that are actively engaged in accelerating progress on the GLD to drive momentum and collectively address shared challenges.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/06/2022 10:45:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1490924

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Businesses: Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what recent assessment he has made of the progress of businesses in developing solutions to climate change.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Selaine Saxby
	uin	901195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>Businesses absolutely drive the innovation in green technologies, both in terms of efficiency and also reduction in costs.</p><p>The wind, solar and electric vehicle sectors demonstrate what R&amp;D, innovation and economies of scale can do in terms of the expansion of clean technologies across the world.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2022 16:55:05 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4863 label Biography information for Selaine Saxby

1487998

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	COP26: Departmental Responsibilities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what his priorities are for the remainder of the UK’s COP Presidency.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	33765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>At COP26 in Glasgow all 197 Parties agreed to the Glasgow Climate Pact to urgently keep 1.5°C alive and finalise the outstanding elements of the Paris Rulebook. Through our COP26 Presidency, we are committed to working with international partners to deliver the commitments made at COP26.</p><p> </p><p>On Mitigation, the Glasgow Climate Pact requests parties to revisit and strengthen their 2030 targets in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as necessary to align with the Paris Agreement temperature goal by the end of 2022.</p><p> </p><p>On Adaptation, we must demonstrate that sufficient progress is being made through the Glasgow Sharm El-Sheikh work programme on the Global Goal on Adaptation and on efforts to double climate finance for adaptation to developing countries by 2025.</p><p> </p><p>On Finance, we will work on delivering the South Africa Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) announced at COP26 and continue discussions with potential future partners announced at this year's G7.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue our ambition as an inclusive Presidency Year, collaborating across sectors and all parts of society to deliver effective climate action.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 18/07/2022 15:30:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1487969

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	COP26: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, when he last met Ministers in the Welsh Government in Cardiff.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	33922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>COP26 Devolved Administrations Ministers Meetings, which I chair, have formally convened five times. Communiqués from these meetings can be found on GOV.UK. The Welsh Government Minister for Climate Change has been present at these meetings.</p><p> </p><p>Energy policy, including energy efficiency, falls within the remit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). With support from the devolved administrations, BEIS established an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) that is responsible for discussing Net Zero, Energy and Climate Change. This aims to meet every two months and brings together Ministers from the four administrations to discuss emission reduction efforts across the UK. This intergovernmental engagement on net zero will continue to facilitate collaboration and coordination across devolved and reserved competence, ensuring we are delivering effectively for all parts of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to working with the devolved administrations to achieve our shared goals of leading the charge against climate change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 33923 question first answered 18/07/2022 15:35:29 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1506754

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	COP26: Work Experience
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, how many young people aged eighteen or younger have undertaken work experience in his Department in the last 12 months; and what proportion of those young people were (a) girls and (b) boys from state schools.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	51687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>There have been no people aged eighteen or younger over the past twelve months who have undertaken work experience in the COP26 Unit.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 28/09/2022 14:42:12 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1488373

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what progress the Government is making on each of the commitments it made at COP26, and whether it is on track to deliver all of them.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	34972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Delivery of the Glasgow Climate Pact is the top priority for the UK Presidency. The UK and Egypt recently convened Ministers in Copenhagen to discuss progress and heard strong commitment to deliver.</p><p>Since COP26, and following the call in the Glasgow Climate Pact, there have been 16 NDC submissions. A further eight National Adaptation Plans have been published, meaning 2 billion people are now covered by adaptation plans globally. We recently held the 5th Energy Transition Council Meeting where countries reinforced their commitment to implement tailored solutions to decarbonise their power sectors more rapidly. Over 180 countries, regions, cities, and businesses have now signed up to the Zero Emission Vehicles Declaration.</p><p>In total, six countries have endorsed the Agriculture Breakthrough, with Morocco and Sweden endorsing at Stockholm+50. On the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, where 145 countries committed to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030, we are working closely with key signatories to establish a new annual meeting to drive the delivery of this goal.</p><p>We have continued the push to mobilise finance to support energy transition, including the announcement of progress on four new Just Energy Transition Partnerships at the G7 summit. We are working with international partners to meet the $100bn delivery plan for public finance and the doubling of adaptation finance by 2025.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2022 09:34:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1490922

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of global (a) GDP and (b) emissions generated by countries that have net zero commitments.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	901193
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>When the UK took on the role of organising COP26 less than 30% of the global economy was covered by Net Zero targets.</p><p>As a result of the work the UK did with partners, by the time we got to COP26 over 90% of the world's economy was covered by Net Zero targets.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2022 16:55:02 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

1487997

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: International Cooperation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what assessment he has made of the progress of nations on submitting new Nationally Determined Contributions since COP26.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	33764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>Since COP26, there have been 16 NDC submissions. This represents progress but the Government continues to work closely with partner countries and organisations to drive climate ambition, and to urge all countries to revisit and strengthen their NDCs by the end of 2022 to close the ambition gap and keep 1.5C within reach.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 32939 question first answered 20/07/2022 17:07:32 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1487444

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the ability of the US to meet its climate commitments in the context of recent decisions by the US Supreme Court relating to planet-heating omissions.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	32500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>The COP President regularly discusses the climate commitments made by the US and others with his counterpart US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC), John Kerry , and has done so since the beginning of the UK’s COP26 Presidency.</p><p /> <p>Most recently, the COP President met with SPEC Kerry on Saturday 9 July to discuss a range of climate change issues, including the recent ruling of the US Supreme Court in relation to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).<strong><br></strong></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/07/2022 14:38:28 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1472029

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what assessment he has made of the impact of the war in Ukraine on the global delivery of the Glasgow Climate Pact.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	22423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>Putin’s illegal and brutal invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated to countries the dangers of relying on fossil fuels controlled by a hostile actor. Countries now understand the benefits of low-cost, homegrown renewables, the price of which cannot be manipulated from afar. Climate and environmental security are now synonymous with energy and national security. And it is clear that our long-term energy futures do not lie in fossil fuels.</p><p>I am pleased that governments are responding by accelerating the transition to clean power. Here in the UK, we have recently published our Energy Security Strategy, to turbocharge our deployment of wind, of solar, of nuclear, and of hydrogen.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/06/2022 12:26:22 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord