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Tackling climate change is essential to our security and prosperity. The FCO works through its network of posts across the globe to promote international action on climate change.

Dried up river bed near Lodwar, Kenya. People across East Africa are facing a critical shortage of water and food, a situation made worse by climate change (Getty images)

Climate Security

Climate change can be a risk multiplier in areas where there are already water, food, energy or demographic challenges.

COP17 Key achievements

Find out more about the key outcomes from the 2011 UN Climate Summit.
 

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Video: UK International Climate Fund

£2.9 billion fund will help developing countries adapt to climate change.

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A 4 degree world

Our interactive map shows some of the possible impacts of a 4 degrees Celsius rise in global temperature.

Tackling climate change is essential to our security and prosperity

Cambodian child walking through a flooded rice field. Impoverished countries like Cambodia are likely to be among some of the worst-hit by climate change (Getty images)

Climate change is a global problem and therefore requires a global solution. The FCO works through its global network of posts to promote international action on climate change.

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Prime Minister's message to polar scientists, marking 100 years since Scott's arrival at the South Pole

News, 17 Jan 2012
Prime Minister David Cameron commends the work of the scientists and support staff at British bases in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, continuing Captain Scott's legacy of research and discovery.

Foreign Office Minister praises British polar scientists ahead of Scott centenary

News, 16 Jan 2012
Minister Henry Bellingham heralds the work of the scientists responsible for continuing Captain Scott's scientific legacy with their cutting edge research on the environment and climate change.

Durban outcomes and what they mean to us.

News, 14 Dec 2011
British High Commissioner, Vicki Treadell, shares her views on the outcomes in Durban

'A renewed commitment to tackling climate change through international law'

News, 14 Dec 2011
Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham has welcomed the outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 17) which concluded in Durban, South Africa on 11 December.

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