According to the United Nations’ top climate change official, a lack of global leadership on climate change is seriously hampering efforts to combat global warming.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has today published the results of its inquiry into the adequacy of the current structure and operation of government in dealing with the challenge posed by climate change. The Committee is calling for the creation of a new post of climate change minister.

Ofwat has today published a comprehensive policy statement on climate change and the water sector in England and Wales.

According to a new European Commission survey, Europeans are highly concerned about climate change and clearly willing to take action against it.

Investment in flood defences should rise substantially to keep up with climate change is the message that the Environment Agency Board will hear and discuss when they meet in Bristol today.

The Chancellor today set out the 2008 Budget which includes measures to tackle climate change, the most serious and pressing environmental challenge the world faces.

The Government’s blueprint for tackling climate change was published yesterday.

The draft Climate Change Bill shows the Government is learning some lessons from the failure to meet its 2010 carbon dioxide reduction targets, the Environmental Audit Select Committee concludes in its Seventh Report - but also comments that that the Government's policy towards the UK's 2050 target is clearly incoherent.