PARTY politics meets climate change. Leaders of the UK鈥檚 three major parties have agreed that whoever wins the general election this May, Britain will carry through its obligations to try and halt global warming.
The , signed by the leaders of the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and Labour, represents an unprecedented show of party unity. It comes in the same week that officials from 194 countries met in Geneva, Switzerland, to finalise an initial negotiating text for the upcoming UN climate summit in Paris, France, in December.
The trio vowed to seek a deal in Paris restricting global temperature rises to 2掳C, a threshold beyond which climate would be likely to have catastrophic consequences.
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鈥淭hey鈥檝e agreed this goal is above party politics,鈥� says , director of the Green Alliance, the pressure group that brokered the cross-party deal. But, he says, they are still to confirm dates and details for their pledges, such as ending emissions from coal and transitioning to an energy efficient economy.
