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To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking with the international community to reduce carbon emissions from methane in Arctic permafrost thaws.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking with the international community to reduce carbon emissions from methane in Arctic permafrost thaws.
Asked by
Lord Dykes
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
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Answered
Answered on
1 December 2009
The Government recognise the potentially significant feedback between methane release from permafrost thaws and climate change, and are seeking the strongest possible commitments in the Copenhagen negotiations to emissions reductions which will (among other benefits) reduce the impact of anthropogenic climate change on the permafrost. We recognise the need for research to understand better the processes involved. UK researchers including those at the Met Office Hadley Centre are actively involved in this, including work with Russian collaborators on permafrost modelling. We are also looking at how current scientific work can contribute to the task force established by the Arctic Council to consider the impacts of methane and other short-lived products such as black carbon and tropospheric ozone. The Arctic Council task force investigating this is due to report in February 2011.
Subjects
Climate change; Pollution control; Carbon emissions; Arctic; Methane
Date
1 December 2009
Reference
83; 715 c22-3WA
House
House of Lords