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President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday joined UK’s Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, for the launch of ”Beyond Copenhagen: The UK Government’s International Climate Change Action Plan.” The Action Plan sets out what must be done so that the climate finance identified at Copenhagen begins to flow and those commitments countries made to tackle their emissions are delivered. The launch of the UK Government’s action plan was also an attempt to breathe new life into the quest for a legally binding international climate change treaty. The move was immediately welcomed by President Jagdeo. But, according to the Guardian newspaper, he warned that developing countries would not accept an agreement if rich countries – who have emitted by far the most carbon pollution – did not commit to further deep cuts in emissions. Referring to the US,Miguel Cabrera Tigers Jersey, he said: “There are countries who stick out and clearly need to do more work. If the largest [developed] country emitter falls so far below the minimum, it makes it far harder for other countries, and you lose the element of justice and fairness.” The diplomatic moves came as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met billionaire financier George Soros; Obama’s economic adviser Larry Summers; economist Lord Nicholas Stern,Michael Brantley Indians Jersey, President Jagdeo and other finance ministers to find ways to raise $30bn (£20bn) a year immediately and $100bn a year by 2020 to enable developing countries to adapt to climate change. The high-level advisory group on climate change financing,Florida Marlins Jerseys, convened by UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon and chaired by Brown and Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi, will consider at least six ways of raising up to $1tn dollars for climate change adaptation. These include: a small levy on all international aviation and shipping; enlarging existing carbon cap-and-trade markets; imposing a small ”Robin Hood”-type tax on all financial transactions; using the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights. The group of 19 financial leaders has been asked by Ban to report back by November, when UN climate talks take place in Cancun, Mexico. In “Beyond Copenhagen” the UK Government sets out its views on the way forward, including pushing for the European Union to increase its plans to cut emissions in line with comparable moves elsewhere and supporting the European Commission’s work to identify the practical steps that would be required to implement a 30 per cent target.  The plan sets out the Government’s belief that the low carbon transformation can be a major driver of economic growth and job creation – in the UK, in Europe and globally. In it the UK Government makes clear that it wants to build on the strengths of the Kyoto Protocol, that it is open to extending the agreement as a way of getting a legal deal and that it is in favour of strengthening the UN decision making process that was so frustrating at Copenhagen. It also makes clear that the UK is pushing for the EU to increase its plans to cut emissions in line with comparable moves elsewhere. The UK Government’s Climate Change Action Plan builds on the Copenhagen Accord, in which countries have put forward actions that,DJ LeMahieu Rockies Jersey, if delivered in full, would see global emissions peak before 2020. According to UK’s energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband,Trevor Bauer Indians Jersey, “we’ve got to dust ourselves down and kick-start efforts to get a global deal, get the climate financing flowing and make sure the cuts promised by countries happen. We need to do this, not just for environmental reasons, but also for economic ones.”The launch of ‘Beyond Copenhagen: the UK Government’s International Climate Change Action Plan came hours before the first meeting of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance. That meeting was co-chaired by Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and included President Jagdeo among others.Prime Minister Brown is determined to use the meeting to try and unblock critical negotiations on long-term finance.This is key to helping poor countries adapt to climate change, to securing greater emissions reductions by developing countries and to achieving a legally-binding climate treaty.A legally-binding treaty is crucial for limiting global temperature rises to no more than 2 degrees.  But as negotiations restart towards this, the Government is determined to lock in the emissions reductions already agreed in the Copenhagen Accord.Yesterday also,Craig Biggio Astros Jersey, the UK Government became the first in the world to publish plans that will set out how every major department will address the challenge of climate change in the UK.The Carbon Reduction Delivery and Adaptation Plans detail each department’s commitment to minimise the damage of climate change, by reducing emissions and by preparing for inevitable change in the UK climate.