UNITED STATES POSITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Early day motion 469, tabled 29 June 2005 by Lynne Jones (Labour). Signed by 68 members.

That this House notes that on 7th June, the same day as President Bush stated in his joint press conference with the Prime Minister in Washington DC `We want to know more about climate change. It's easier to solve a problem when you know a lot about it', a statement was issued that had been prepared collectively by the Academy of Science in each G8 country, including in the US National Academy of Sciences, which, inter alia, stated that `a lack of full scientific certainty about some aspects of climate change is not a reason for delaying an immediate response that will, at a reasonable cost, prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system'; fully supports the sensible approach of the academies to invoke the environmental precautionary principle; and calls upon the Prime Minister and relevant departmental ministers to put pressure on their United States' counterparts to fulfil their moral duty to take the urgent action needed to combat climate change, to stop trying to water down or distort the final declaration of the Gleneagles G8 meeting in July, and to back fully and carry out all the key climate change mitigation conclusions and action commitments at the Gleneagles G8.

Signatures by party: Labour 40, Liberal Democrat 18, Conservative 4, Plaid Cymru 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Respect 1, Scottish National Party 1.