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UK leads campaign for a legally binding climate change treaty following negotiations in Copenhagen.

4 degree map (Met Office Hadley Centre)

Scientists say 'very likely human activity is to blame'

A Met Office review of the latest climate research confirms our planet is changing rapidly and man-made greenhouse gas emissions are very likely to be the cause.

Ice on the Han river in Seoul, South Korea. (Getty images)

Climate finance

Prime Minister Gordon Brown launches a High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing.

Solar farm in Nevada, USA (Getty images)

10:10 carbon reduction commitment

FCO has signed up to the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010.

The road to Copenhagen

December 2009 (iStockphoto)

In December 2009, the world came together to agree a new international agreement to tackle climate change

Priorities

Cambodian children walking through a flooded rice field in Cambodia.Impoverished countries like Cambodia are among some of the worst-hit byclimate change, say experts (Getty images)

Foreign Office priorities include: promoting low carbon technologies and low carbon economies

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