Climate Change and Energy
“If I had to pick one issue that has the moral and political and economic salience as great as those issues of peace and war in the 1950s and 1960s, in the 21st Century it's climate and the environment"
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.
Climate change is not just an environmental challenge, but is a threat to the global economy and to global security. The projected rise in the global average temperature will have catastrophic effects, increasing the frequency of extreme weather events (floods, cyclones and hurricanes).
Tackling climate change requires a sustained global effort to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases through cleaner energy, transport and changes in technology and behaviour.
This section features articles relating to climate change issues, including developments in research, environmental seminars, both in Argentina and the United Kingdom, and the work of the UK Government.
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Climate change news
- Latin America at the heart of a Copenhagen agreement (17/11/2009)
- The Ambassador met Dr. Jane Goodall (22/10/2009)
- Copenhagen needs CCS (14/10/2009)
- Tackling climate change on four fronts (11/09/2009)
- Copenhagen: In the balance (09/09/2009)
- Along the low-carbon path (21/08/2009)
- UK at forefront of a low-carbon economic revolution (15/07/2009)
- Climate change in the media (14/07/2009)
- A global deal on climate change is vital (22/06/2009)
- Climate change and politics (19/05/2009)
