Climate Change Risk: National Audit Office Guidance

Lord McFall of Alcluith Excerpts

Monday 25th October 2021 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con)]

The right reverend Prelate will know that Defra leads on environmental matters and on the greening government commitments, or GGCs, the UK Government’s ambitions to improve the environmental performance of its own estate and operations. We expect the greening government commitments to be published in the very near future.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith)]

The noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, is not present, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer.

[Baroness Kramer (LD)]

My Lords, many Members here sit on boards and know, as I do, that however good the risk assessment process, change is driven only where a named senior executive is responsible. How many government departments and other public bodies have a named senior executive responsible for action on climate change and climate change risk?