To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress the Government have made since September 1990 in the attempts to secure international action to reduce greenhouse gases; and what action the United Kingdom Government are taking independently to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the hon. Member for Stockton, North (Mr. Cook) on 19 July 1991, columns 375–76.