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”.
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 to its optimism.
