08 Sept 2009 - Transcript - Copenhagen in the Balance, press briefing by David Miliband and Ed Miliband - Department of Energy and Climate Change

08 Sept 2009 - Transcript - Copenhagen in the Balance, press briefing by David Miliband and Ed Miliband - Department of Energy and Climate Change: "08 Sept 2009 - Transcript - Copenhagen in the Balance, press briefing by David Miliband and Ed Miliband

David Miliband (DM): … for a briefing on the state of the climate change negotiations and also a discussion of some work that I’m going to be doing this week with European Foreign Ministers to try to re-energise the global effort to secure a deal at Copenhagen.

You’ll know that for some time it’s been the position of the British Government that climate change is not just an environmental issue, it’s an economic issue, a, a security issue, and therefore a foreign policy issue. It’s a foreign policy issue because it involves very complex international negotiations but also because of the foreign policy consequences of the sort of climate changes that are underway. And I want to say a few words about that.

But the purpose of this press briefing is actually very simple, and that is reflected in the title that you can see behind me, that the deal that the world needs in Copenhagen is now in the balance. There is a real danger that the talks scheduled for De ...