Climate change and energy
Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. Rising global temperatures will bring changes in weather patterns, rising sea levels and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather. The effects will be felt in the UK; internationally there may be severe problems for people in regions that are particularly vulnerable.
We are acting now to adapt to climate change and to reduce the risk by contributing less to the causes. These pages explains what climate change means for the UK and what we are doing about it.
Get help to shrink your carbon footprint!
Contact the ACT ON CO2 advice line - 0800 512 012 (Mon-Fri 9am – 5pm), to find out how energy suppliers are required to help you tackle climate change, or go to www.est.org.uk (2 April 2008)
Latest information
Selected additions to this site and other relevant government websites
What is climate change?
The greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, effects
of climate change globally and in the UK
What
we are doing in the UK
Information about the 2007 draft Climate Change Bill; the UK Climate Change Programme; initiatives for individuals and business; adapting to climate change; energy issues.
What
we are doing internationally
International negotiations including UN Climate
Change Conferences; developing
countries; the EU, Kyoto Mechanisms and the Intergovernmental
Panel on
Climate
Change.
Evidence & research: science & economics
Links to relevant documents including work on the cost of carbon
Emissions trading
UK and EU emissions trading schemes
See also:
Page last modified: 2 April 2008