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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will set out the areas of (a) scientific uncertainty associated with manmade climate change and (b) renewable and energy-efficient technologies, that she intends to present at the G8 as needing further international collective work. [204911] Mr. Morley: In February 2005 we will host a conference to explore the consequences of different levels of climate change, from a science perspective, in terms of impacts for different sectors and regions, as well as the for the world as a whole. It will also consider technological options to meet different stabilisation levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The conference will lay the foundation of our current understanding of the science by presenting the current state of play of all scientific issues related to the stabilisation of greenhouse gases. It will provide the scientific evidence of the scale of the threat and demonstrate the urgent need to tackle climate change. Work on renewable and energy-efficient technologies will be taken forward through a workshop hosted by the new UK Energy Research Centre. We will be inviting researchers from the G8 countries along with representatives from key developing countries with growing energy needs. The meeting will foster closer international cooperation on a number of areas including energy supply, demand management, and new and renewable energies such as biomass, hydrogen and solar PV.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

204911; 428 c1514W;428 c1512W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Climate change G8 Renewable energy Technology Science

Link

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