UK and Norway Agree on Priorities for Diplomatic Cooperation to Fight Climate Change

The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Miliband, and Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, reached agreement today on a set of priorities for diplomatic cooperation to fight climate change.

Miliband and Støre reaffirmed their commitment to "combining their diplomatic resources to meet the systemic threat posed by climate change to our global foreign policy goals." 

With reference to the goal of limiting the average rise in global temperature to no more than 2˚C above pre-industrial levels, the UK and Norway pledged to coordinate strategic diplomatic efforts "to create the political conditions required to reach a legally binding regime on climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol."

The full text of the Set of Priorities document (pdf)