Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is very often the world's poorest people who are most dependent on the free services provided by ecosystems and that therefore, economic development of any sort that undermines those ecosystems or is un-green will not only not help those people, but actively harm them? Will he continue to put an increasing focus, as I know he is, on tackling the environmental causes of some of the base poverty we see in the world today?
Food Security and Famine Prevention (Africa)
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 15 September 2011.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Food Security and famine prevention (Africa).
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