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The Energy and Climate Change Unit, in BIS’s Enterprise and Business Group, is working to help create the conditions for UK business success through key energy and climate change policies by working closely with and influencing the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), other Whitehall Departments, international organisations and business on key energy and climate change policy - minimising competitiveness impacts, improving sustainable environmental performance, and productivity, and maximising business opportunities.
A key policy objective is to promote the security of our energy supplies and energy prices. This involves tackling domestic and international climate change issues, including the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
An important part of the Energy and Climate Change Unit’s work is the Climate Change Projects Office (CCPO), the UK Government’s primary contact for business on climate change projects under the Kyoto Protocol. It runs a programme of trade missions, both inward and outward, to promote UK private sector expertise on climate change project-related business opportunities. The CCPO promotes broader carbon market mechanisms to support the UK position in the United Nations (UN) post-2012 climate change negotiations.
The Energy and Climate Change Unit represents UK business sector interests (including concerns stated by UK Energy Intensive Industries), in this year Copenhagen negotiations - the challenging successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
Current areas include: Biofuels; Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS); Carbon budgets; CCPO projects; Climate Change; Coal; EU-ETS; Nuclear;and Renewable Energy.
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