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Ellie Chowns Excerpts
Tuesday 22nd October 2024

(6 days, 8 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Hamish Falconer Portrait Hamish Falconer
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My hon. Friend asks an important question. Peace building at a civil society level has an important role to play in trying to resolve this conflict. I will write to him with details of our plans.

Ellie Chowns Portrait Ellie Chowns (North Herefordshire) (Green)
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T3. I welcome this Government’s ambition in seeking a new climate finance goal at COP29 in Baku shortly. Will the Minister assure me that she understands the scale of need? The UN Environment Programme says that 10 to 18 times more funding is needed for adaptation than is currently on the table. Will she make sure that it includes loss and damage and is additional to aid?

Anneliese Dodds Portrait Anneliese Dodds
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I am grateful to the hon. Lady for a very important question. The UK Government could not have been clearer that climate and nature must be at the heart of all that we do, including in foreign and development policy. The Foreign Secretary underlined that at Kew, and I underlined that in the Chatham House speech that I gave last week.