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The UK government has announced the creation of a Department of Energy and Climate Change. The move, which has for the first time forged an arm of government explicitly uniting climate and energy, has been welcomed by the renewables industry and the environmental movement. The new government arm, which is to be headed by Ed Miliband, will assume responsibility for areas which had previously been covered across two departments - the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) - in a move which is hoped will provide more direction and focus to the pressing issues of both security of energy supply and climate change.

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