Department of Energy and Climate Change

This section provides more detail about what the UK Government is doing to tackle climate change, including: 

• The five point plan for UK climate action - the five key things DECC is doing to reduce emissions at home and abroad  
• the UK Climate Change Programme - policies and priorities for action in the UK and internationally  
• the Committee on Climate Change - an expert, independent body, looking at how the UK can best achieve its emissions reductions goals for 2020  
• individual and community initiatives such as the ACT ON CO2 Calculator and personal carbon trading  
• what the public sector is doing to cut its own emissions and become more energy efficient 
• emissions trading and Climate Change Agreements - what they are and what they are achieving  
• the international strategy for addressing climate change and the part the UK is playing globally.