A stable climate is an essential public good. Delivering a stable climate is a security, prosperity and moral imperative, not simply a long-term environmental challenge. It underpins much of what we try to achieve internationally. An unstable climate threatens the achievement or protection of many human rights. The latest science, collated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report in November 2007, has demonstrated that the climate challenge is more urgent than previously thought.

Sir Nicholas Stern’s review of the economics of climate change was the most detailed economic assessment to date. Its clear message was that the most vulnerable globally – those who are least able to adapt – are being hit first and hardest.

Climate security is central to national and international security. Without a stable climate, it will become ever harder for governments to put in place the conditions needed for security and prosperity in a crowded and interdependent world. To address the root of the security issues we face, we must tackle the global insecurities underlying them

Working with other countries and international institutions such as the EU and UN to rapidly shift towards a lower carbon world is one of our key goals.

We're also focussed on securing energy for the UK and tackling the challenges of a global economy.

Shifting to low carbon

Shifting to low carbon

Securing energy

Securing energy