{ "format" : "linked-data-api", "version" : "0.2", "result" : {"_about" : "http://eldaddp.azurewebsites.net/answeredquestions.text?answer.questionFirstAnswered.=2019-09-09T11%3A35%3A19.307Z&tablingMemberConstituency=Romford", "definition" : "http://eldaddp.azurewebsites.net/meta/answeredquestions.text?answer.questionFirstAnswered.=2019-09-09T11%3A35%3A19.307Z&tablingMemberConstituency=Romford", "extendedMetadataVersion" : "http://eldaddp.azurewebsites.net/answeredquestions.text?answer.questionFirstAnswered.=2019-09-09T11%3A35%3A19.307Z&tablingMemberConstituency=Romford&_metadata=all", "first" : "http://eldaddp.azurewebsites.net/answeredquestions.text?answer.questionFirstAnswered.=2019-09-09T11%3A35%3A19.307Z&_page=0&tablingMemberConstituency=Romford", "hasPart" : "http://eldaddp.azurewebsites.net/answeredquestions.text?answer.questionFirstAnswered.=2019-09-09T11%3A35%3A19.307Z&tablingMemberConstituency=Romford", "isPartOf" : "http://eldaddp.azurewebsites.net/answeredquestions.text?answer.questionFirstAnswered.=2019-09-09T11%3A35%3A19.307Z&tablingMemberConstituency=Romford", "items" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1143383", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1143383/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

The UK Government recognises the importance of protecting rainforests and has a long and proud history of supporting action to combat deforestation. The Government\u2019s 25 Year Environment Plan, published last year, sets out work to protect the world\u2019s forests, support sustainable agriculture and move towards zero-deforestation supply chains.<\/p>

<\/p>

Brazil is one of our priority countries for both climate change and biodiversity engagement, and the UK Embassy in Brazil leads our engagement with the Brazilian Government on the environment. We have been having positive discussions with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, who are keen to continue our partnership to promote sustainable agricultural practices to combat deforestation rates. The first phase of our Low-carbon Agriculture programme (£24.9 million), completed in May this year, reached over 18,500 beneficiaries in the Amazon and Atlantic forest biomes and delivered a seven-fold increase in livestock productivity, while avoiding the clearance of 175,000 hectares of land and reducing 52% of carbon emissions. An additional £30 million has been committed to expand project activities to a second phase, taking place in two other major biomes in Brazil \u2013 Cerrado and Caatinga.<\/p>

<\/p>

Brazil will continue to be an important partner in negotiations at the forthcoming UN climate summits in Chile this December (the 25th<\/sup> Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP 25) and again at the significant COP 26 in late 2020, where we hope to raise the level of global ambition on climate change five years on from the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015.<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4062", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Richmond Park"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Zac Goldsmith"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-09-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-09-09T11:35:19.307Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "13"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-09-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Rainforests: Brazil"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department is holding with the Government of Brazil to help stop deforestation in the Amazon.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1447", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Rosindell"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Romford"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Andrew Rosindell"} ], "uin" : "284821"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 1, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} }