G8 AND CONTRACTION AND CONVERGENCE

Early day motion 961, tabled 21 March 2005 by Colin Challen (Labour). Signed by 168 members.

That this House welcomes the recent decision of the Synod of the Church of England to support contraction and convergence as the overarching framework to tackle climate change; further welcomes the comments of the Honourable Kalonzo Musyoka, Minister for Environment and Natural Resources, Kenya, given at a meeting for African Environment Ministers in Nairobi in February, supporting contraction and convergence; congratulates Aubrey Meyer, founder of the Global Commons Institute, which formulated the concept of contraction and convergence, on receiving the Climate Change Champion Award made by the Corporation of London, for his work in attracting the support of many government and international agencies for contraction and convergence; and calls upon the Government to seek, during its presidency of the G8, to advance the international effort to avert the dangers of climate change by promoting the constitutional framework of contraction and convergence, which embodies the principle of equal rights to the global commons.

Signatures by party: Labour 107, Liberal Democrat 30, Labour/Co-operative 15, Conservative 9, Plaid Cymru 4, Scottish National Party 2, UUP 1.