“This is a major setback for the UK’s climate change efforts. The abolition of the Department of Energy and Climate Change has been condemned by former ministers as a major setback to British efforts to combat global warming. At a stroke, the number of cabinet voices with a departmental remit for the environment and climate change has been halved. Lord Stern, a leading climate economist, said he was content with the change, and WWF said the department could be a “real powerhouse for change” if climate change “was hardwired” into it. “At a time when the challenge of climate change becomes ever more pressing, the government has scrapped the department devoted to tackling it.

Source: The Guardian July 15, 2016 07:45 UTC