UK: Alarmist economist Ed Miliband becomes Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Who's who in the new Cabinet so far - Times Online

Ed Miliband steps down as Cabinet Office Minister to become Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change following the structural change at the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which is now split into two with a spin off department for Energy and Climate Change.

July 2008 - Ed Miliband's speech to the Compass conference

Take the issue of climate change, the biggest threat to humankind that we face. How can progressive politics address the issue? Fundamentally, it is about government shaping markets. It is about government's role in ensuring that we control the big forces that exist in our society, like climate change, and the protection of the next generation.

And the new carbon budgets that we are planning will have profound effects on government. That's why we need to have a manifesto that thinks radically about our energy policy, our transport policy, our urban policy - and also about our economic policy. Because we see in economics today, with the oil price as it is, economics and environmentalism coming together. That means thinking very hard and very seriously about the alternatives to oil, but it also means thinking very seriously about how we can be ahead with the green economy of the future.

Ed Miliband: Information from Answers.com