Does CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme encourage businesses to reduce carbon emissions?

Article date : 11/08/2010

 

A new government scheme may not be as successful as it hopes in encouraging businesses to become more energy efficient, one sector commentator has suggested.

A spokesman for the Centre for Alternative Technology said that the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme has one problem in that it allows businesses to purchase carbon credits, rather than reduce their emissions.

He explained that this may facilitate organisations in buying their way out of making any real reductions in the emissions that they produce, which could allow them to make significant profits without lowering their harmful impact on the environment.

"The scheme encourages organisations to "dump" their emissions elsewhere, for example, by outsourcing energy intensive bits of their business to [countries] not covered by the scheme," the spokesman alleged.

The energy and climate change minister Greg Barker has called on thousands of businesses across the UK to register with the programme.

Written by Tony Harrison
 

 

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