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1329335

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	UN Climate Conference 2021: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, how many applications were accepted from organisations applying for a presence at COP26.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Darren Jones
	uin	10561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government ran an Expression of Interest process earlier this year to identify stakeholder interest in participating within UK Government managed spaces at the summit, receiving 3,966 proposals from across 93 countries. Following an extensive evaluation process, we have longlisted a range of proposals for further consideration. At this stage, no organisation has received confirmation of space within UK Government managed spaces at the summit.</p><p>An events programme and list of exhibitors within the UK Government managed Green Zone will be made available to the public in due course.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 10562 question first answered 14/06/2021 12:09:27 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1329336

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	UN Climate Conference 2021: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, if he will publish a category breakdown of the successful applications to have a presence at COP26.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Darren Jones
	uin	10562
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government ran an Expression of Interest process earlier this year to identify stakeholder interest in participating within UK Government managed spaces at the summit, receiving 3,966 proposals from across 93 countries. Following an extensive evaluation process, we have longlisted a range of proposals for further consideration. At this stage, no organisation has received confirmation of space within UK Government managed spaces at the summit.</p><p>An events programme and list of exhibitors within the UK Government managed Green Zone will be made available to the public in due course.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 10561 question first answered 14/06/2021 12:09:28 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1329553

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Financial Services and Supply Chains: Environment Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what steps he is taking with global partners to ensure (a) food and commodity supply chains are environmentally responsible (b) that the finance industry is bound by net-zero and the Paris Agreement targets.
	tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
	tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
	uin	10712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2021 answer text <p>The Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue is critical to ensuring supply chains are environmentally responsible. This is a ground-breaking partnership between producer and consumer countries committed to taking action to transition to more sustainable commodity production and global trade. Building on the Just Rural Transition Initiative, we also aim to build momentum for policy action, innovation, and investment for sustainable agriculture and food systems, particularly through the ‘Transition to Sustainable Agriculture’ Policy Dialogue.</p><p>On the finance industry, the UK is implementing a framework for embedding climate into every financial decision and creating a more sustainable financial system to support the path to net zero. The agenda for private finance can be seen <a href="https://ukcop26.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COP26-Private-Finance-Hub-Strategy_Nov-2020v4.1.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>In addition, we have now launched the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which brings together over 160 firms (together responsible for assets in excess of $70 trillion) from the leading net zero initiatives across the financial system. GFANZ will work to mobilise the trillions of dollars necessary to build a global zero emissions economy and deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/06/2021 15:17:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1329556

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what discussions he has had with (a) the Welsh Government, (b) the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (c) industry bodies to use the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference to promote the renewables industry of (i) Wales and (ii) Ynys Môn.
	tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
	tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
	uin	10713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2021 answer text <p>I have regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues, including the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to help promote the UK's clean energy transition. I have met with companies in the renewable energy industry in Wales to explore how they can support a successful COP26. The Government has a long history of supporting the development and deployment of wave and tidal stream technologies in the UK, including in Wales. Since 2003 various bodies across Government have provided innovation/R&amp;D funding of £175m to the wave and tidal sectors (almost £80m since 2010).</p><p>I am working with the Welsh Government, alongside the other devolved administrations, to ensure an inclusive and ambitious COP26 for the whole of the UK. As part of this, I chair the COP26 Devolved Administrations (DAs) meetings with climate change ministers from the DAs. The COP26 Unit also worked with the Welsh Government and other DAs to encourage proposals from stakeholders, such as the renewables industry, across the UK via the Expression of Interest process for events or showcasing in UK Government managed spaces at COP26.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/06/2021 15:21:10 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1329560

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	UN Climate Conference 2021: Civil Society
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what steps he is taking to work with the Welsh Government to ensure there are opportunities for civil society to engage with COP26.
	tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
	tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
	uin	10714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2021 answer text <p>Civil society, with their links to on-the-ground communities and practitioners, are key partners to achieve the goals we have set for COP26. This is why I have set up an International COP26 Civil Society and Youth Advisory Council so that we can hear and act on the knowledge of civil society groups. My officials run regular, open-invite calls with a large network of civil society organisations to share updates on our planning for COP26, which are regularly attended by Welsh groups.</p><p>We are working with the Welsh Government, alongside the other devolved administrations, to ensure an inclusive and ambitious COP26 for the whole of the UK. As part of this, I chair the COP26 Devolved Administrations (DAs) Ministerial meeting with climate change ministers from the DAs. The COP26 Unit also worked with the Welsh Government and other DAs to encourage proposals from stakeholders across the UK via the Expression of Interest process for events or showcasing in UK Government managed spaces at COP26.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/06/2021 15:18:48 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1329562

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Forests: International Cooperation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what steps he is taking to work with his international counterparts to reduce the impact of global deforestation; and what support the Government has provided to protect rainforests.
	tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
	tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
	uin	10715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2021 answer text <p>The UK Presidency is working with international counterparts and partners to secure global action to protect and restore forests, and shift international agricultural commodity supply chains away from deforestation and transition towards more sustainable practices. We have established the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue to achieve this. The FACT Dialogue is a ground-breaking partnership between governments of producer and consumer countries committed to taking action to transition to more sustainable commodity production and global trade.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/06/2021 15:19:25 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1404975

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, whether the Government plans to sign up to the International Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	108603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-11-12/73892" target="_blank">PQ 73892</a> on 22 November 2021.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/01/2022 11:01:25 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1416497

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	COP26: Convention on Biological Diversity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, how many staff in his Department have been assigned to work on the Convention of Biological Diversity; and how many Ministers in his Department plan to attend the conference from 25 April to 8 May 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	111518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity represents a historic opportunity to secure an agreement to ambitious global action over the next decade. The UK is committed to playing a leading role in developing an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework to be adopted at COP15. The COP is due to take place in Kunming, China, later this year; though, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we expect a delay to the planned dates of 25 April to 8 May. Minister Goldsmith will head the UK delegation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the lead department for the Convention on Biological Diversity, working closely with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Cabinet Office. A core team is in place in DEFRA, drawing on expertise across DEFRA, its specialist arms-length bodies, working with other Government departments, civil society organisations and society at large. This includes working with the FCDO and our Posts across the diplomatic network, through which we are engaging host governments to support the delivery of our objectives. Nature is one of the key priorities in the UK’s COP26 Presidency, and so the Cabinet Office COP26 Unit is also supporting preparations for COP15 to ensure successful delivery of our COP26 objectives.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/02/2022 17:56:17 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1416914

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Environment Protection: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what steps he is taking to work with the UNFCCC to help ensure that the money pledged for nature at COP26 is (a) spent (i) effectively and (ii) transparently and (b) goes to frontline communities; and what estimate he has made of when that funding will be made available.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	112529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>At COP26, 141 countries committed to halting and reversing forest loss and land degradation by 2030 in the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, this is underpinned by almost $20 billion of public and private finance. In the activities supported by the pledge we will promote the full, effective, and willing participation of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in programmes that protect and restore forests, reduce deforestation and forest degradation, and we will work to ensure that benefits reach smallholders and local communities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>At COP26 the UK launched in partnership with Fiji a Taskforce on Access to Climate Finance, to improve access to financial flows for the most vulnerable. This proposes a new approach which aims to deliver a transformational step change in access at the national and local levels and to spur a related shift in the wider public climate finance architecture, improving the predictability, flexibility, transparency, affordability, and speed of disbursement of climate finance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/02/2022 18:08:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1416916

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2022
	answering body	COP26
	answering dept id	210
	answering dept short name	COP26
	answering dept sort name	COP26
	hansard heading	Natural Resources: Conservation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the President of COP26, what steps he is taking to help ensure that signatories of the Glasgow Leader’s Declaration on Forests and Land Use are held accountable; how that declaration is being connected to the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 process; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	112530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to taking bold action to tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. However, we are clear that countries cannot tackle environmental and climate crises alone; we need a concerted global effort. The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use is an unprecedented commitment from 142 countries, covering over 91% of global forests, to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. It’s underpinned by almost $20bn of public and private finance, by sustainable trade and by support for indigenous peoples’ rights. We will work with other countries that endorsed the Declaration to convert this political commitment into strong action on forests and land use. This will include working through multilateral events in 2022 such as meetings of the G7 and G20, and at COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>All Parties to the Paris Agreement must report on their progress towards its goals via nationally determined contributions - which cover every emitting sector including forests and land use. At COP26, as part of the Glasgow Climate Pact, countries agreed to revisit and strengthen their current emissions targets to 2030 in 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/02/2022 17:49:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas