Minister of State (Minister for Climate Transition)
Responsibilities
The minister is responsible for:
- net zero strategy and carbon budgets
- Electrification Champion
- electric vehicles (EVs) (joint with DfT)
- international climate and energy policy
- G20 climate and energy lead
- climate finance, green finance
- citizen engagement
- carbon markets
- climate science
- innovation for climate and energy
- climate security
- methane emissions
- biomass sustainability
- biomethane, tidal, geothermal
Current role holder
Katie White OBE MP
Katie White was appointed Minister of State in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 21 July 2026.
She was previously Minister for Climate in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero between 7 September 2025 and 21 July 2026.
She was elected as the MP for Leeds North West in July 2024.
Education
Katie graduated from the University of Glasgow.
Career outside politics
Before going into politics, Katie worked at Friends of the Earth where she co-led the campaign for the Climate Change Act.
In 2009, she worked with the UK government to prepare for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), before going on to work at the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
She was previously Executive Director at WWF-UK.
She was awarded an OBE for her services to tackling climate change.