‘We have to succeed because the threat to our children’s future is so serious,” says Ed Davey

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has said the next twelve months will be ‘critical’ following a new agreement on climate change made in Lima this month. The world’s first global deal on climate change will be made in Paris in 2015.

14 December 2014 – In response to the new agreement reached by UN members to tackle climate change, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey said: “This is an agreement that unites all nations, unlocking the door to the world’s first global climate deal in Paris next year.

“The talks were tough but the Lima Call for Climate Action shows a will and commitment to respond to the public demand to tackle climate change.

“I am proud the UK has been leading the way – by our laws on low carbon energy and climate, by successfully championing ambitious targets to cut emissions in Europe and with our central role here in Lima.

“The next 12 months will be critical and the UK’s leadership will be needed more than ever in the difficult negotiations ahead – but we have to succeed because the threat to our children’s future is so serious.”

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