To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will join the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition; and if she will make a statement.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
25 May 2016
The UK has joined the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition as a government partner.
The UK supports carbon pricing and carbon markets as a means of driving cost effective decarbonisation to help reach the long-term goal agreed in Paris: to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees and make efforts to deliver 1.5 degrees.
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Department for Energy and Climate Change
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