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Climate Change (Political Response)

I accept that. At our conference last month, we made it clear that the international agreement—the Prime Minister understands the agenda item—of the developed world to put money into the kitty to deal with adaptation and mitigation is just as important. The reason our motion is more focused is that there is a campaign in this county and around the world for action now and next year. We are trying to get the Government and Parliament to make decisions about this country. We are also continuing to exhort our Government to make the right decisions at Copenhagen. However, the motion adds to the three general propositions that I have set out for the next decade and calls on the Government and Parliament to sign up to the 10:10 campaign—if we pass the motion this evening, that is what we will do—and commit this country and this Parliament to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent. by the end of 2010. At the end of this debate, I shall ask colleagues from all parties to support the motion and reject the amendment. If we make the right decision today, we can bring great credibility to Parliament, we can do the right thing for the people whom we represent and, just as we did a few months ago when we decided to give proper recognition to the commitment and service of the Gurkhas, we can show that Parliament can determine what the nation does, not just the Government.