The United Kingdom will not replace Gregory Barker, who resigned his post as the nation’s climate envoy in March 2015. “There are no plans to appoint a new envoy on climate change at this time,” Prime Minister David Cameron announced in a written statement in March.
Cameron noted that the U.K. had a role in the negotiation of the Paris Agreement in December without a climate envoy: Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd represented the nation.
The Government is committed to tackling climate change by reducing our emissions at home and pushing for ambitious action globally,” Cameron wrote. “The focus now is on implementation [of the agreement]”
Barker became the U.K.’s first climate envoy in July 2014 and stepped down from the position last year when he left the House of Commons.
