From the BBC:

Green groups have welcomed the creation of a new energy and climate department in Gordon Brown's government reshuffle.

Ed Miliband will head the new department, and will join his elder brother David around the Cabinet table.

Previously, the UK's energy policy and climate strategy has been divided between two separate government teams.

Think-tank Green Alliance said it hoped the move would result in a more joined-up approach to cutting emissions.

"Hallelujah. A department of energy and climate change, and not before time," responded the alliance's director, Stephen Hale.

"Ed Miliband's in-tray is piled high with issues that the old structure did not resolve. The new department puts climate change where it belongs, with its own seat at the cabinet table."