The Environment Bill 2019-21 has completed it Committee Stage in the House of Commons. This paper is a summary of what happened in the Committee and how the Bill has changed. It considers key Government and Opposition amendments. It is prepared in advance of the Bill's next stages (Report and Third Reading) scheduled for 26 January 2021.
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Durban Climate Conference (181 KB, PDF)
The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UN Framework on Climate Change took place in Durban between 28th November and 11th December 2011.
Background on previous annual meetings can be found in the Library Paper on the Copenhagen conference in 2009 and in the Standard Note on the Cancun conference in 2010.
Many of the decisions that were not taken in Cancun – such as what would succeed the Kyoto Protocol – were no nearer to being resolved when the conference began, with little progress during preparatory meetings. Despite this consensus was reached on drawing up an agreement by 2015, that would include all developed and developing countries making some kind of commitment to reduce emissions, which would come into force from 2020. The EU also agreed to a second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol.
There was also progress in other areas, such as climate finance for developing countries, forestry, and inclusion of carbon capture and storage in the Clean Development Mechanism
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Durban Climate Conference (181 KB, PDF)
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The end of the transition means changes for how fisheries will be managed in the UK. There will be further changes depending on whether an agreement on a future relationship is reached or not.
