{"id":710,"date":"2008-10-03T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/british-government-creates-department-for-energy-and-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:17","slug":"british-government-creates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/british-government-creates\/","title":{"rendered":"British government creates Department for Energy and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has created a new government Department for Energy and Climate Change. Ed Miliband will be at the helm of the new governmental agency. The Guardian newspaper wrote that the action “signals a major rethink of the government’s environment policy and reflects the rise of climate change to the top of the national and international environment agendas”. <\/p>\n

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Greenpeace welcomed the initiative. “This is, potentially, fantastic stuff. Until now, one department has been dealing with climate change and another – the department for business (DBERR) – with energy. This entirely nonsensical division hamstrung any chances of a coherent, low carbon energy policy and kept business and environmental interests at perpetual loggerheads. No prizes for guessing who usually won”, the organization said on its website, although it added a wait-and-see note<\/a> to its optimism.<\/p>\n

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