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Priorities
Watch the latest Video on climate change - building a low carbon high growth economy
The FCO is particularly focused on:
- communicating the economic benefits of taking action to combat climate change
- promoting the development of low carbon technologies
- making sure that the poorest and most vulnerable countries are listened to in the international debate
- helping to research the implications of climate change for global security
Low carbon economies
Economic studies have made it very clear that the cost of action against climate change now is small while the cost of doing nothing is very great
Low carbon technology
The UK is a world leader in the technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power stations and burying the gas underground
Vulnerable countries
Vulnerable countries have an important voice in the international debate around how to tackle climate change and need to press the richer and more developed countries to be ambitious in their action
Global-security
Climate change will turn things we've taken for granted: such as fresh water access, stable coastlines or fertile land into scarce resources and therefore potential sources of conflict
