On 1 February 2010 Early Day Motion (EDM) 765 was tabled with the help of co-sponsorship from Stephen Williams, MP for Bristol West.
This EDM aims to raise awareness in Parliament for the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) Earth Hour 2010 campaign, which is encouraging people to switch off their electrical appliances for one hour on 27 March 2010 in order to demonstrate the importance of making serious commitments to tackle global climate change.
"That this House calls for cross-party support for WWF's Earth Hour 2010 campaign which seeks to persuade over a billion people worldwide to switch off their lights for an hour at 8.30 pm on 27 March 2010 to demonstrate to political leaders the far-reaching public desire for an urgent, fair, ambitious, binding and scientifically credible global deal on climate change; notes that the Copenhagen Accord failed to establish a sufficiently ambitious or binding framework capable of tackling the threat of climate change; further notes the urgent need for a legally binding global compact which sets stringent carbon emissions reductions targets at global and national levels; further notes that such a framework must include a mechanism for the independent monitoring and verification of progress; further calls on the Government to seek a new international mechanism to provide sustained and sufficient finance additional to existing commitments and which will be committed to support mitigation and adaptation and to prevent deforestation in developing nations; recognises the lead the UK showed at the climate negotiations in Copenhagen; and further calls on the Government to take a leadership role in securing jobs in the UK's green economy and in safeguarding lives, livelihoods and the planet."
At the time of writing this EDM has already gained the cross-party support of over fifty MPs: a figure that is likely to continue to rise once the House resumes business on 22 February 2010.
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