Welcome to the website for the Department of Energy and Climate Change
We face unprecedented challenges to our environment, our economy, and the future security of our energy supplies and the decisions we make now will affect the planet and our way of life for generations to come. DECC exists to tackle these challenges.
This site provides information about the Department and about the work we do. If your web browser supports RSS feeds, you can sign up to be kept informed whenever we add major news stories or speeches by our Ministers.
You will find further information about all the main areas of our policy work on the BIS (energy) and Defra (climate change) web pages.
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The Road to Copenhagen: The UK government's case for an ambitious deal on climate change - 26 June 2009
On 26 June 2009, the Government published "The Road to Copenhagen", a document that makes the UK Government’s case for an ambitious agreement at Copenhagen in December 2009, and focuses on urgent action to limit global temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.