The document discusses climate change research activities funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). It provides an overview of FP7's structure and budget breakdown for climate change research. Key areas of research included understanding and predicting climate change; developing climate-friendly technologies; and improving tools for climate change mitigation and adaptation policy analysis. Specific projects studied climate processes, the role of oceans, carbon and nitrogen cycles, impacts in the Arctic, atmosphere pollution, and effects on water resources and ecosystems in Europe.