Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Colin Challen (Labour), on Monday, 1 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 181 members in total.

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE EARTH HOUR 2010 CAMPAIGN

That this House calls for cross-party support for WWF's Earth Hour 2010 campaign which seeks to persuade over a billion people worldwide to switch off their lights for an hour at 8.30 pm on 27 March 2010 to demonstrate to political leaders the far-reaching public desire for an urgent, fair, ambitious, binding and scientifically credible global deal on climate change; notes that the Copenhagen Accord failed to establish a sufficiently ambitious or binding framework capable of tackling the threat of climate change; further notes the urgent need for a legally binding global compact which sets stringent carbon emissions reductions targets at global and national levels; further notes that such a framework must include a mechanism for the independent monitoring and verification of progress; further calls on the Government to seek a new international mechanism to provide sustained and sufficient finance additional to existing commitments and which will be committed to support mitigation and adaptation and to prevent deforestation in developing nations; recognises the lead the UK showed at the climate negotiations in Copenhagen; and further calls on the Government to take a leadership role in securing jobs in the UK's green economy and in safeguarding lives, livelihoods and the planet.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

765 

Session

2009-10

Other sponsors

Peter Ainsworth

Peter Bottomley

Simon Hughes

Lord Stunell

Stephen Williams

Subjects

Climate change Earth Hour

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk