The return of the climate department?

There was some surprise news in UK politics yesterday. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been reshuffling his ministers and re-ordering some departments. In the process, the idea of a climate department has been brought back from the dead. Grant Shapps will now head up a newly formed Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.

If you remember, the UK was an early pioneer in creating a climate change ministry. The Department of Energy and Climate Change was formed in 2008 under the Labour govern...