High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Committee on Climate Change is an independent body which advises the UK Government on tackling and preparing for climate change. The Committee provides advice on setting carbon budgets (carbon budgets are designed to place a limit or ceiling on the level of economy-wide emissions that can be emitted in a five year period), and reports regularly to Parliament on the progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Committee advises the Department of Energy and Climate Change and its powers are invested by Part 2 of the Climate Change Act 2008. It was formally launched as a statutory committee in December 2008 with Lord Adair Turner as its chair. The other committee members are David Kennedy (CEO), Lord Robert May, Sir Brian Hoskins, Lord John Krebs, Professor Julia King; Professor Jim Skea; Professor Michael Grubb and Sam Fankhauser.