The Portfolio Committee held a video conference, on 7 October 2009, with the Members of Parliament, United Kingdom, on the way in which a committee on climate change was established in that Parliament. The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed legislation that introduces the world's first long- term legally binding framework to tackle the dangers of climate change. The legislation also established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), as an independent body, to provide the Government with advice on the levels of the first three carbon budgets up to 2020 and to review the 2050 targets. In addition to providing advice to the United Kingdom Government on reducing GHG emissions, the committee also focuses on the challenges of climate change to the United Kingdom.