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Is the Government cooling on climate change?

The Department of Energy & Climate Change has been abolished by Theresa May in one of her first acts as Prime Minister. The Westminster Hour asks what this means for mitigating against climate change in Britain - will it be forgotten by the Government or placed centre-stage throughout Whitehall? Sam Macrory meets Ed Miliband, the first Climate Change Secretary; former minister Greg Barker; fervent supporter of the department Caroline Lucas and critic Peter Lilley; as well as Lord Stern, who wrote a key report into climate change in 2006; and pollster Deborah Mattinson.

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6 minutes