Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Colin Challen (Labour), on Monday, 21 March 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 168 members in total.

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G8 AND CONTRACTION AND CONVERGENCE

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.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

961 

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Climate change G8

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk