Department of Energy and Climate Change

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

• our five point plan for UK climate action - the five key things we are doing to reduce emissions at home and abroad
   
• the UK Climate Change Programme - our 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.