About this site
This is the official UK government website for activities in the lead up to global climate change negotiations, in Copenhagen, December 2009, where the successor to the Kyoto Protocol will be agreed.
This website was launched on 26 June 2009, coinciding with the launch of the UK’s Road to Copenhagen document.
You will be interested in this site if you are:
- Based in the UK or internationally, and keen to follow HMG activities around climate change in the lead up to Copenhagen Already engaged in the climate change debate, eg as a journalist,scientist, policy maker, researcher, or through a stakeholder groupsuch as NGO, faith, business or other
- Interested in the UK’s perspective on the road to Copenhagen and what they hope to achieve at COP15.A member of the public interested in the initiatives in the UK and abroad which are already demonstrating success towards climate change.
- Seeking to campaign for an ambitious deal at Copenhagen and want to see what other groups are doing and how you might get involved.
- If are looking for ideas about what simple behaviour changes you can make to reduce your emissions, you can calculate your carbon footprint and find tips on how to reduce it at Act on CO2.
- The UK's international ambition for a global deal on climate change, via our Ambitions content, and updated activities on progress towards this, via our Achievements and Newsroom
- Profiles, via UK Action of the activities different groups, including government, business, faith groups and others, are taking to improve climate change and also push for a global deal at Copenhagen
- The work around the world on climate change, via Global Action
- Domestic and international news and updates, as they happen.
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