climate change minister
“To meet the overall targets, we will require a range of
different mechanisms to achieve the savings in each of the
sectors affected. Many of the initiatives already in place
complement schemes such as the Carbon Reduction
Commitment which is now out to consultation.”
Joan Ruddock, Climate Change Minister (right)
In the hours before a Cabinet reshuffle, ministers and hopefuls tell
friends not to phone them in case they miss the summons from
No 10. There are usually as many losers as there are winners in this
Westminster version of musical chairs, But like lawyers who are
guaranteed a financial win whatever the outcome of a case, there
are others who wait for the announcements from Downing Street,
safe in the knowledge that there will be extra business for them
whoever secures the jobs.
They are the people who design the new logos the implementation of the 2008 Climate
and make the new door plaques and print the Change Act.
new letterheads and create the new websites The reaction to DECC was favourable, in that
when Departments are re-named or launched. it was seen as a vehicle for concentrating minds
There was no doubt a cause for celebration in Whitehall on the need for integration between
in those quarters last October when the De- a successful climate change strategy and a
partment of Energy and Climate Change was sound policy for energy management.
conceived. With the acronym of DECC, the Establishing a new department takes time,
Department carved swathes out of the portfo- even when the component parts exist elsewhere
lios of both DEFRA and BERR – itself a re- in government. DECC’s web site has taken a few
packaged and re-branded DTI – to streamline months to progress from a simple holding page,
while three out of four top-level Civil Service
Before DECC was conceived . . .
posts in the Department were still to be filled
formally four months after its launch.
• NHS Sustainability Development Unit
• Salix Finance for public sector carbon reduction Element of continuity
• Local Authorities Carbon Management Programme
•
But there was also some important continuity
Carbon Trust Standard
•
at DECC’s Whitehall Place headquarters. Joan
Carbon Reduction Commitment
•
Ruddock MP had made the transition to the
Climate Change Levy
•
Department from the encompassing role of
Councils Carbon Trading Scheme
•
Minister of Climate Change, Waste and
DCSF Low Carbon Task Force
•
Biodiversity at DEFRA.
Display Energy Certificates
•
It was to Ms Ruddock, therefore, that we
Energy Performance Certificates
turned for her ministerial viewpoint on topics
• EU Energy Trading Scheme . . .
as diverse as climate change management,
the Carbon Reduction Commitment and the
impact of the recession on climate change
investment.
The reaction to DECC was favourable, in that it was seen as a vehicle for concentrating minds in Whitehall
on the need for integration between a climate change strategy and a sound policy for energy management.
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