Britain’s energy challenge
Energy policy in the UK is at a crossroads, and the decisions made now will reverberate for decades. At least 43 gigawatts of new electrical generation capacity, equivalent to half of Britain’s current...
View ArticlePreaching to the converted
“Follow the carbon, find the cost savings.” This is the take-home message of a new report by analysts Verdantix for the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) setting out why more and more leading companies...
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 ArticleGood intentions, wrong kind of cuts
The phrase ‘greenest government ever’ has become a mantra for the Coalition, not least for David Cameron and energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne. And we are assured that at the heart of the vision...
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 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 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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