President Hage Geingob held talks with the United Kingdom's (UK) Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on the margins of the United Nations Climate Change summit in Glasgow. According to Namibia's High Commissioner to the UK, Linda Scott, the two leaders discussed matters of mutual interest particularly around climate change and how Namibia and the UK could cooperate and develop business, technology and educational exchanges around green energy. Lord Ahmad requested Namibia to consider signing the Forest Declaration, which advocates using carbon credits to protect tropical forests.