Chamber and committees

Good morning, and welcome to the sixth meeting of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. As a result of membership change, our first agenda item is a declaration of interests. We repeat our thanks to Ms Webber for her contribution to the committee. I welcome Maurice Golden to the committee. We look forward to working with you, Mr Golden. I invite you to make a declaration of interests.

Under item 3, as part of our international development work, and in the run-up to the 26th United Nations climate change conference of the parties, we are looking at climate justice. In this one-off session, the committee will hear from two panels. First, I welcome Jamie Livingstone, head of Oxfam Scotland; Carolyn Sawers, acting chief executive of the Corra Foundation; and Chris Hegarty, senior adviser for Christian Aid Scotland. Good morning to you all.

We will move straight to questions. I invite Mr Cameron to open the questioning on behalf of the committee.

Can the witnesses hear us?

I will start with Mr Livingstone. I let the witnesses know that Mr Hegarty is back on board on audio only.

Mr Nhlema, thank you for joining us from Malawi this morning. Could you tell us a little bit about your work and your relationship with the Scotland Malawi Partnership?

Dr Hill, your written submission says that we

“should be a champion of the principle of additionality”

and that you believe that there is potential for us to be a global leader in the area. Will you briefly give us some more context for that?

Mr Nhlema, would you like to come in?

Dr Hill and Professor Jafry, do you want to comment briefly on that? We are now very tight for time.

We are very tight for time and two members still wish to ask questions. I will bring in Mr Golden first.

I thank Mr Nhlema, Professor Jafry and Dr Hill very much for their contributions this morning. We will now move into private session. I thank everyone for their attendance.