COP 28

Lord Razzall Excerpts

Wednesday 17th May 2023 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

I am sorry to disagree, but we do have detailed plans on where we are going. We have laid them out in our building strategy and in our net-zero plan. Only just before the Recess we published our Powering Up Britain plan, outlining exactly the kind of details that the noble Lord referred to.

[Lord Razzall (LD)]

My Lords, do the Government have any view on the impact on COP 28 of the invitation for President Assad to attend?

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

I saw that the COP 28 presidency had invited Assad and all world leaders. It is a UN body, so of course we do not control who gets invited or who chairs it. Clearly, we deplore the invitation of such an appalling man to this event, but it is not something for which we are responsible.