Presidential Motorcades And Mitigating Climate Change

EDM number 2181 in 2008-09, proposed by Dai Davies on 28/10/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Climate change.

That this House notes the comments made on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 on 25 October by the Foreign Secretary that he thought the appointment of Tony Blair as European Union President `would be very good for Britain, as well as very good for Europe...We need someone who, when he or she lands in Beijing or Washington or Moscow, the traffic does need to stop, the talks do need to begin at a very, very high level'; is surprised that, as a former Environment Secretary, he should be putting a political premium on the use of climate-polluting presidential motorcades; recalls the Foreign Secretary stressing at a United Nations Climate Change conference as recently as 8 September 2009 the important role the European Union can play in the Copenhagen climate negotiations, stating that the United Kingdom could help provide the marching orders it thought were necessary for Europeans around the world who were committed to making a deal; and calls on Ministers in Her Majesty's Government to keep focused on strategies to combat climate change, and to avoid advocacy of unnecessarily extravagant modes of official transport while carrying out their official responsibilities.

This motion has been signed by a total of 6 MPs.