Reaction to David Cameron speech at UN Climate Summit
ECIU board members Lord Howard of Lympne and Professor Michael Grubb comment
By George Smeeton
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Commenting on the speech today by Prime Minister David Cameron at the UN Climate Summit in New York, ECIU board member Lord Howard of Lympne said: “The Prime Minister said that climate change is one of the most serious threats facing our world – a threat to national security, poverty eradication and economic prosperity. I fully agree.
“The forecasts of rising sea levels, declining food production and damage to the natural world are warnings on which we have to act.
“The Government is absolutely correct to be pressing for a legally binding agreement at the UN summit in Paris next year. I think it deserves our full support.”
ECIU board member Professor Michael Grubb, Professor of International Energy and Climate Change Policy at UCL, said: “This Summit has to be seen as the event which is designed to fire the political starting gun for global negotiations on tackling climate change that culminate at the end of next year.
“One thing that has come out clearly today is that there is a much more cohesive sense amongst the major political players about the severity of the issue, the determination to tackle it, and the recognition that they are all it together.”