Controlling Carbon

Thousands of large businesses in the UK face a mandatory emissions trading scheme. The Government is now consulting on implementation proposals. How will your business be affected?

The 2006 Energy Review committed the Government to reducing energy use in large non-energy intensive organisations by an amount equivalent to 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (MtC) emissions per year by 2020. The target sector (which will include organisations such as large banks, supermarkets, rail operators, hotel chains and central government departments) reportedly accounts for approximately 10% of the UK’s total carbon emissions.

In the recently published 2007 Energy White Paper the Government announced the introduction of an emissions trading scheme called the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).