British government axes its energy and climate change department

Closure decision by new British government
"plain stupid" - Ed Milibrand.

The government has axed the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) in a major departmental shake-up.

The brief will be folded into an expanded Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under Greg Clark.

Ed Miliband, the former energy and climate secretary under Labour, called the move "plain stupid".

It comes at a time when campaigners are urging the government to ratify the Paris climate change deal.

Read the BBC story - “Government axes climate department.”