Report of LIBG forum on deforestation
How to stop deforestation
How to stop deforestation
This paper has bene issued by the Liberal International Climate Justice Committee and cna be viewed here: https://liberal-international.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Climate-Induced_Final.pdf
by Robert Woodthorpe-Browne
The recent Lib Dem campaign successes, and the way 'Cleggmania' hit the UK after the first party leaders' television debate, was not lost on the foreign press nor on our sister parties in Europe and the Commonwealth.
Following a powerful speech from its newly elected President, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes, the 2010 annual general meeting of the British Group of the Liberal International unanimously called on the government to rule out the like-for-like replacement of the Trident nuclear weapons system.
There can be a perception that developing countries undergoing rapid industrialisation are not greatly interested in action against climate change, seeing it as something that threatens their drive to prosperity.