Thursday, January 31, 2008

Climate Change Bill shunned by Cardiff MPs.

Although these MPs have all had hundreds of letters from constituents NONE of the Cardiff MPs have signed this EDM, nor have John Smith MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, or Julie Morgan MP for Cardiff North, or Kim Howells MP for Pontypridd. Plaid Cymru Williams, Hywel has signed.

You can check if your MP has signed using the link below.
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=34898&SESSION=891

Please contact your MP today using the link below asking him/her to sign the EDM to give us a bigger safety margin.
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/press_for_change/email_mp/index.html

Early Day Motion

EDM 736
CLIMATE CHANGE BILL
21.01.2008


Griffiths, Nigel

That this House welcomes the introduction of the Climate Change Bill to Parliament and the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP's) recent Human Development Report which described the Bill as a bold and innovative proposal to create a national carbon budget; notes however that the UNDP also warned that the Bill needed improving as its targets were not ambitious enough, and international aviation emissions were excluded, meaning that even if the Bill were applied to every developed country, global temperature would rise well beyond the two degrees Celsius limit and perhaps as high as four or five degrees; congratulates the Prime Minister on his speech on 19th November 2007, when he acknowledged the evidence now suggests that as part of an international agreement developed countries may have to reduce their emissions by up to 80 per cent.; and urges the Government to support amendments to the Bill during its passage through Parliament to address the UNDP concerns, making it an unequivocally world-leading response to climate change.