What are we trying to achieve?

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has a new strategic framework to deliver its foreign policy goals.

As part of the new strategic framework, the FCO also has a new mission statement – “Better World, Better Britain” – reflecting the fact that we can no longer have environmental, physical or economic security in the UK without promoting it overseas.

One of UK's four policy goals is to "Promote a low carbon, high growth, global economy" by:

• create the conditions for a rapid shift in investment towards low carbon and for an ambitious post-2012 climate agreement
• enhance UK energy security through more diverse supplies and more efficient global consumption
• increase international commitment to an open economy and achieving the Millennium Development Goals