COP 28

Lord Teverson Excerpts
Wednesday 17th May 2023

(1 year, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Teverson Portrait Lord Teverson (LD)
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I agree with the noble Baroness that it is a great disappointment that we do not have a Secretary of State going to the Gulf for COP 28. Will the UK still be chairing the Powering Past Coal Alliance that it has led and chaired in the past? If so, will it therefore cancel its coal mine intentions in Cumbria, here in the UK?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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I am not going to get into the debate about Minister Stuart. He does an excellent job and is well respected across the international community for his work, building on the work that we did at COP 26. We are committed to the Powering Past Coal Alliance. I think the noble Lord is being slightly disingenuous; he knows that the coal mine in Cumbria is nothing to do with power generation.