Written question asked by Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation)) on Wednesday, 16 May 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 21 May 2007. It was answered by Ian Pearson (Labour) on Thursday, 24 May 2007 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Climate Change: Electricity Generation

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what contribution United Kingdom officials or scientists made to the ad hoc working group on Mitigation potentials of policies, measures and technologies of the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change, held in Bonn on 15 to 18 May; and whether any specific electricity generation technology was promoted by the United Kingdom.

Answer: [holding answer 21 May 2007]: UK officials played an active part in the European Union’s (EU) preparations for the Bonn United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) Ad-hoc Working Group meeting. During the meeting, the EU presented information on the mitigation potential of the EU as a whole and not as individual member states. In the preparations, the UK did not promote any specific electricity generation technology. The EU’s submissions and presentations can be found on the UNFCCC website at:"www.unfccc.int."

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