CRC RIP?
On Friday, the Committee on Climate Change was supposed to advise the government on how tightly it should cap carbon emissions under the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme when...
View ArticleTrading away the future
2010 has been a bad year for the climate. Not just for climate treaty negotiations – few expect a deal in Cancún in Mexico this December after the failure in Copenhagen last December. But also for the...
View ArticleCRC bombshell: bad government, good for the environment
Before the election, the then shadow chancellor George Osborne used to give speeches about how Labour had given green taxes – fundamentally a good thing – a bad name. Now, in the heat and rush of the...
View ArticleTalk is cheap – but so is energy efficiency
The last time energy efficiency was a high profile issue was during the notorious oil shocks of the 1970s and the three-day week. But here we are again. This time round, the ‘trinity’ of rising energy...
View ArticleDECC is chasing its own tail on CRC simplification
I think the energy and climate department (DECC) is wasting its time trying to simplify the CRC. There’s no doubt the scheme is extremely complicated, and I’ve every sympathy with energy managers...
View ArticleDECC the halls
December was a month of extraordinarily bitter cold. A snowbound Britain found it hard to get excited about Cancún's fitful progress towards an international agreement to tackle global warming. But it...
View ArticleClimate change agreements revisited
Latest thinking by the energy and climate department (DECC) over climate change agreements (CCAs) smacks of blue-sky thinking. It has floated ideas not only to reform but even potentially to scrap the...
View ArticleReading the runes of the CRC review
The government’s plan to simplify the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme is starting to take shape. In January, the energy and climate department (DECC) published a series of...
View ArticleCRC: Dead man walking?
Industry lobby groups are calling on the government to kill off the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme. The recent consultation by the energy and climate department (DECC) on...
View ArticleTime for mandatory carbon reporting
The environment department (DEFRA) recently published a consultation on proposals to require larger companies to report their carbon emissions. But speaking at an event in London on 16 May, Sainsbury’s...
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