This year is a landmark one for climate change. In Copenhagen in December, the world will come together at the United Nations conference to agree a new international agreement to tackle climate change. The current international agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, will expire in 2012. Copenhagen, in effect, will create its successor.

Read the 'Road to Copenhagen' Executive Summary to find out:

• the principles on which our position is based;

• the specific areas where we want to see agreement;

• what the UK is doing domestically.  

Also visit the official UK government website, `Act on Copenhagen' that presents the authoritative HMG position on climate change negotiations in Copenhagen 2009.

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