NEW: Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Select Committee

There are several committees in parliament which look at climate change in various ways. In general the select committees are very good and debunking govornment spin and providing a voice of support for stringent cuts in emissions. There have been some changes recently, so to summerise.

There are several select committees:

1. The Environmental Audit Committee (which has hitherto done most of the work on climate change and is focused on a theme rather than a department).
2. The Envronment Food and Rural Afairs (EFRA) Committee (which has looked at DEFRAs work, including climate change to a significant degree)
3. The Energy and Climate Change Committee (which has taken onthe climate change part of EFRAs brief in the same way that the department for energy and climate change has taken on the climate change part of DEFRAs work)

Other than these committees some significant players in the general milieu of gvornment climate policy are:

1. The Committee on Climate Change (setup to oversee the climate change bill).
2. The Sustainable Development Comission.
   

The new energy and climate change committee has web pages here.

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