Motion: Keep Scotland Beautiful Climate Change Consultation

Keep Scotland Beautiful Climate Change Consultation

Lodged by Ken Macintosh Standard Motion 19 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament notes that, in December 2015, Paris will host the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP21, and that the negotiations will cover the establishment a new international agreement on climate change; welcomes the work being done by the charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful, in working to engage and inform people across Scotland about the international context, process and global conversation taking place; welcomes the launch of what it considers the charity’s unique public consultation, seeking to gather the views of people across Scotland about COP21 and the big issues and challenges around climate change action that will be discussed; understands that Keep Scotland Beautiful will collate responses to this consultation and present a detailed briefing paper to the Scottish Government delegation to COP21, outlining what the people of Scotland want to see out of the negotiations, and encourages the widest possible participation in this consultation, which is available at keepscotlandbeautiful.org/yourvoiceinparis.

Supporters (19)