Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has revealed that the UK will be seeking a legally binding climate change agreement at negotiations later this year. However, he has also voiced concerns that the deal will not go far enough to avert dangerous levels of climate change. Davey?s comments come after policymakers met in Lima, Peru, in December to lay the groundwork for the agreement. Late this year at UN climate change negotiations in Paris they will reconvene to agree on a universal treaty. The target is to the limit global warming to a 2C increase above pre-industrial levels, past this point scientists have warned that climate change effects, from rising sea levels to heatwaves, will become more frequent, intense and difficult to predict. According to the Guardian, Davey told MPs on the parliamentary Energy and Climate Change Committee that the UK would be seeking a legally-binding agreement from the talks in December but voiced concerns that an agreement would not go far enough.

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