Foreign Office

Blue Planet Fund hands out first £16.2m to global marine protection efforts

Politics

Blue Planet Fund hands out first £16.2m to global marine protection efforts

Programmes bringing together UK science and developing nations will aim to help enable marine habitat recovery

clock 13 August 2021 • 3 min read

Politics

Making climate a UK foreign policy priority is a start: Delivering it will be tough

clock 17 March 2021 • 7 min read

Politics

Government to merge Foreign Office and DFID, heralding potential climate aid shake-up

Merger designed to better integrate diplomatic and development goals, but campaigners fear aid efforts could be undermined

clock 16 June 2020 • 4 min read

Politics

MPs launch probe into UK's green diplomacy efforts and COP26 preparations

Foreign Affairs Committee chair Tom Tugendhat argues that 'in order to ensure that COP26 is a success, it must be postponed'

clock 30 March 2020 • 3 min read

Politics

Confirmed: UK and Italy to host crucial COP26 UN climate summit

Summit - tipped as the most important since 2015 - will see thousands of climate diplomats flock to Glasgow

clock 10 September 2019 • 4 min read

Policy

Foreign Office Minister Mark Field suspended after grabbing climate protestor

BREAKING: Footage shows Conservative MP Mark Field forcibly removing a female protester from last night's Mansion House dinner

clock 21 June 2019 • 2 min read

Policy

UK government under fire for 'tacit acceptance' of Arctic oil and gas activity

But Foreign Office hits back at 'baseless' claims from Environmental Audit Committee that UK encourages oil and gas exploration in the Arctic

clock 16 March 2019 • 3 min read

Politics

Number 10 denies government is planning to merge Departments for Business, Transport, and Culture

But Sun reports suggest proposal for new 'super-ministry' is under consideration, prompting fears climate change would slip down government priority list

clock 03 January 2019 • 3 min read

Waste

Boris Johnson orders Foreign Office to enlist in 'war on plastic waste'

Foreign and Commonwealth Office set to eliminate avoidable single-use plastics from its global operations by 2020

clock 28 February 2018 • 2 min read

Politics

FCO climate headcount down 60 per cent since 2011, FOI reveals

Freedom of Information request reveals number of UK-based Foreign Office staff working on climate change has fallen from 554 to 221 over the last six years

clock 07 September 2017 • 3 min read