The United Nations climate conference, held in Copenhagen, ended
with the Conference of the Parties taking note of the Copenhagen
Accord. Climate change experts from the Met Office played a key
role in the conference, providing clear science on the facts of
global warming and the challenges we face. As part of this role,
we created a map showing some of the impacts our world would see
if global average temperatures increased by 2 °C above pre-
industrial levels. The impact of a global temperature rise of 2
°C (PDF, 1.4 MB) Download the transcript (PDF, 94 kB) You can
also download the COP15 ‘Science — Driving our response to
climate change’ brochure, as a series of individual PDF files.
Informing mitigation (PDF, 3 MB) Informing choices 1 —
Mitigation (PDF, 2 MB) Informing choices 2 — Adaptation (PDF, 3
MB) Tackling temperature rises news release Articles below
discuss some of the key issues surrounding climate science and
climate change. They include some of the topics which were
central to the discussions in