| answer text |
<p>The UK is a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) individually as well as through the EU and we are bound by all the obligations
of the Paris Agreement under international law. This includes the requirement to prepare,
communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The
UK is firmly committed to the Paris Agreement and to our emissions reduction and climate
finance efforts under it. We have demonstrated our commitment domestically – we were
the first country to introduce legally binding emissions reduction targets through
the Climate Change Act, and we have recently published our highly praised Clean Growth
Strategy, which is ambitious and robust in setting out how we will decarbonise the
UK economy through the 2020s.</p><p> </p><p>Leaving the EU will not affect our statutory
commitments under our own domestic Climate Change Act and indeed our domestic binding
emissions reduction targets are more ambitious than those set by EU legislation. Our
Clean Growth Strategy includes the commitment that our future approach to tackling
climate change is at least as ambitious as the current schemes we have in place.</p><p>
</p><p>The Devolved Administrations were consulted in the formulation of many of the
policies in the Clean Growth Strategy and in the development of EU legislation. We
will continue to work with the Devolved Administrations as we develop and implement
the policies and proposals that we have set out.</p><p> </p>
|
|
