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Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to employees and guests at Infosys in Bangalore, during his three day visit to India

PM leads official UK visit to India - 28 July 2010

Prime Minister David Cameron has led a UK delegation on an official visit to India, starting 28 July.

Climate Change and Energy Minister, Greg Barker, is accompanying the Prime Minister on what is described as the largest delegation in recent memory and designed to forge a stronger and deeper UK - India relationship.

Climate change, trade, education, security and aid are amongst the themes being discussed.

Barker puts low carbon growth at the heart of UK-India relationship (Press release)
Read the latest on the visit in International Climate Change section of the DECC site, the No 10 website, the Foreign Office website, or UK in India website
Follow the visit on Twitter, and tweet #fsinindia to ask the Foreign Secretary your question about India.

Annual Energy Statement - 27 July 2010

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne set out 32 actions being taken to accelerate the transformation of the energy system and wider economy, in the first ever Annual Energy Statement to Parliament today.

Groundbreaking ‘2050’ analysis has been published alongside the Statement, including six illustrative ‘pathways’ showing that meeting the target of an 80% cut in emissions by 2050 is ambitious but achievable, and compatible with maintaining security of energy supplies.

A new online ‘2050 Calculator’ was also launched, that enables the public to explore the trade-offs in building a 2050 energy system.

Chris Huhne with the Christian Aid football squad who are calling for the EU to commit to a 30% reduction in emissions targets by 2020

Chris Huhne makes European push on climate change - 14 July 2010

A new push to persuade Europe to cut its emissions by 30% by 2020 was kicked off today in a joint initiative by the UK, Germany and France.

In an article published simultaneously in the three countries, the countries’ climate change ministers Chris Huhne, Jean-Louis Borloo and Dr Norbert Röttgen set out the economic benefits for increasing Europe’s climate change targets. The current European target is for the EU to cut emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by 2020.

Commenting on today’s initiative to increase the target to 30%, UK Energy and Climate Secretary Chris Huhne said:

"This shows how seriously Britain, France and Germany take the low carbon agenda and how we want to work together to make it happen."

Read the joint article on the DECC website

Impacts of 4 degree world shown on Google Earth map - 14 July 2010

The UK Government has launched a Google earth map showing what could happen to the world should average global temperatures rise by 4 degree Celsius.

DECC Minister of State Greg Barker attended the launch event, where the Foreign Office unveiled their interactive map, developed in collaboration with the British Council, Met Office Hadley Centre and Google.

View the Google Map or find out more at the Foreign Office website.

Greg Barker launches Microgeneration Strategy consultation - 12 July 2010

Climate Change Minister Greg Barker is today launching the first stage of the Government’s plans to help communities become more self-sufficient in the way they use heat and power.

Homes, schools and businesses are already guaranteed cash payments through the ‘feed-in tariff’ for producing their own green electricity through technologies such as solar panels or small wind turbines, as well as for selling it to the national grid.

Around 100,000 homes and organisations have installed this kind of technology so far. The Government wants to see what more it can do to help develop the industry, create more job opportunities, and make sure customers can trust the green technology they buy.