19 June - Interview with Ed Miliband

The UK's Energy & Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, has been speaking about the urgent need for a global climate change deal and the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate was held in 22 and 23 June in Mexico.





The Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate will be held next 22 and 23 of June 2009. President Calderon will host the opening ceremony. The event was announced last March 28th by President Barak Obama and will have the following goals:

• To facilitate the dialogue between both largest developed and developing economies
• To support political leadership to generate positive outcomes at the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen next December 2009
• To explore concrete initiatives to increase clean energy sources, reducing greenhouse emissions at the same time.
  
  

The event will be attended by representatives from the following 17 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Secretary of Energy and Climate Change of the UK, Ed Miliband will attend the event.

About Ed Miliband

• Edward Miliband is a member of the Labour party and is the current Secretary of Energy and Climate Change
• He took office the 2nd of October 2008
• He has a graduate degree in Economics
• He joined the Cabinet of Prime Minister Gordon Brown on June 2007.
• On October 16th 2008 he announced the UK’s goal to reduce 80% of CO2 emissions by year 2050.