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The FCO is helping the UK work towards building a low carbon, high growth economy.

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)

Copenhagen: In the balance

At Copenhagen in December, the world will come together at the United Nations conference to agree a new international agreement to tackle climate change.

Deforestation in Indonesia (Getty images)

Priorities

Find out more about our priorities, including helping poorer countries and supporting global security

Copenhagen: In the balance

The impact of a global temperature rise of 4ºC

At Copenhagen in December, the world will come 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

UK climate change projections

Icebergs in the Antarctic (Getty Images)

The latest UK climate projections and the five point plan in the lead up to Copenhagen

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