PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE
Biodiversity Loss and Climate Action - 14 April 2021 (Commons/Commons Chamber)
Debate Detail
Contributions from Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, are highlighted with a yellow border.
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Slough
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth
Climate change and biodiversity loss are inextricably linked, which is why the UK has made nature a core priority of our COP26 presidency. We pioneered and launched the leaders’ pledge for nature in September last year, and we are also driving global action to protect and restore critical ecosystems such as forests and accelerating our transition towards sustainable agriculture while mobilising the finance to support this.
Mr Dhesi
In order to tackle biodiversity loss, the convention on biological diversity, COP15, in May, will support new targets on nature. However, with the Environment Bill delayed yet again, how will the Minister ensure that the outcomes from this conference will feed into COP26 in November?
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The Prime Minister and President Xi have agreed that the UK and China should work together, as respective hosts of the United Nations framework convention on climate change COP26 and the convention on biological diversity COP15, to reinforce and amplify those linkages between climate change and biodiversity loss and to achieve mutually supportive and ambitious outcomes at both summits. We are working closely with our Chinese counterparts and with the UN secretariat of the UNFCCC, the CBD and the United Nations convention to combat desertification to strengthen the links between these conventions to deliver the best outcomes for nature.
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