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Conference To Discuss Carbon Reduction In Gwynedd
A conference to discuss carbon emissions and their impact on the way we live will be held at Plas Tan y Bwlch, Maentwrog on Tuesday 18th January 2011. The event is organised by the Gwynedd Environmental Partnership, as part of the Gwynedd Local Services Board’s Carbon Footprint Reduction Project.
The day is aimed at exploring how the community sector can contribute towards reducing the county’s carbon footprint by looking at what changes to the way we live have already been made, what further changes can be made and how to prioritise action to combat this environmental challenge.
The keynote speaker will be BBC Wales’ environment and rural affair correspondent, Iolo ap Dafydd. Topics covered by other expert speakers will include housing, tourism, agriculture, transport and community work, and their importance in relation to carbon footprint reduction.
Huw Davies, Gwynedd Environmental Partnership chairman, said:
“Climate change has been identified as one of the main threats now facing the world, and it is essential that steps are taken on every level to reduce its impact.”
This focus on the community sector follows the first phase of the Gwynedd Local Services Board’s Carbon Footprint Reduction Project, which concentrated on reducing the carbon footprint of the public sector. Now, every authority that is a member of the Board has committed to targets and action plans to make a real difference to carbon emissions.
Representatives of community organisations are invited to attend the conference for an opportunity to learn more about these important issues. Places are restricted to one from each organisation and must be booked in advance. The conference aims to be truly sustainable, with busses organised to transport delegates to Maentwrog from Dolgellau, Pwllheli and Caernarfon. Local food will be served.
For more information about the conference, to reserve your place and to find out about travel arrangements phone 01286 679652, email: PartneriaethAmgylcheddol@gwynedd.gov.uk
Delegates must book their places before 7th January 2011.
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The property industry will be able to give its views to the government on changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme over the next month.
Today, the Department for Energy and Climate Change has today launched a consultation on proposed changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme. It announced changes to the scheme in last month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, which will simplify the scheme by removing potential bonuses for companies that cut energy use.
Critics say the changes to the scheme have turned it into a “green tax” rather than an incentive scheme. The CRC was introduced in April. CRC participants would, under the proposals, only have to buy the first allowances in the scheme in April 2012, one year after the date proposed initially. The government is also proposing to postpone the second phase of the scheme.
Other amendments include information disclosures, the treatment of Northern Ireland departments and the updating of a number of references in the original CRC Order.
The carbon tax is designed to incentivise large public and private sector organisation to take up cost effective energy efficiency opportunities through the application of reputational and financial drivers. The consultation period is due to close on 17 December.
Source: PropertyWeek.com
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Planned changes to a Government scheme aimed at reducing carbon emissions will impact heavily on businesses, a Bradford-based energy boss has warned.
Gareth Henderson, managing director of Orchard Energy, which has offices in Bradford and Brighouse, said he would monitor changes to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme following Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to divert revenue raised from businesses into the public purse from 2012 .
The scheme was introduced by the previous government in April and requires participants to buy allowances to emit CO2.
The Environment Agency have now written to all CRC participants clarifying that the CRC League Table is to be retained, and this is to be welcomed. This will help to reinforce the benefits of investing in AMR installation and certification schemes.
It doesn’t look like there will be other changes to Phase 1 of the scheme and this is all to the good: the air of uncertainty created by recent announcements has not helped customers to get geared up for compliance. However there is still time to address changes for CRC Phase 2 as the footprint recording year for Phase 2 starts in April 2011, and this is an opportunity to address at least one area of over-complexity: the relationship between CCAs (Climate Change Agreements) and the CRC scheme.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services and CA Technologies have announced a partnership that will help companies comply with carbon legislation in the UK.
The strategic partnership will provide both organisations with the consultation and services to comply with the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme in the UK.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services and CA Technologies hope that by working together, both companies can pool their skills and assets to support sustainability and provide carbon and sustainability management tools and processes that measure, assess and report environmental impact and performance within an organisation.
Robust support
“The complementary strengths of Siemens and CA Technologies have been fused together in response to the needs of the executive boardroom for a technology and process solution that can accurately and robustly support environmental sustainability challenges,” said John Hall, head of strategy and portfolio for north west Europe at Siemens IT Solutions and Services.
The CRC is a mandatory cap and trade scheme in the UK that will apply to large non energy-intensive organisations in public and private sectors and it is estimated that the CRC will cut carbon emissions by 1.2million tonnes per year by 2020.
Moving positively
“By partnering with Siemens we can move positively ahead with software and process implementation advice that will deliver streamlined reporting to organisations,” said Sonny Masero, vice president, sustainability EMEA, CA Technologies.
“It is a giant leap forward from the spreadsheets that some organisations are still using to manually calculate emissions and liabilities,” he added.
Source: Shane Hulgraine – Businessandleadership.com
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Camfil Farr is the world leader in air filtration and clean air solutions. The company differs from competitors in its approach, producing products that can deliver a tangible reduction in energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Camfil Farr gained certification to the environmental management system standard ISO 14001 in 2000. Through the continued application of careful energy management, robust monitoring and measurement of energy consumption and waste streams, Camfil Farr has continued the journey and led by example by being the first UK manufacturing company to achieve certification to the energy management system standard BS EN 16001 in July 2010.
More recently Camfil Farr has become the first organisation in the world to be awarded the BSI’s Kitemark in Energy Reduction Verification (ERV). Download the article from BSI here.
“Independent certification will ‘rubber stamp’ us as a trustworthy and truly sustainable business which hugely benefits the industry we work in. Since a core part of Camfil’s business is selling energy saving filters we felt it was crucial for the organisation to be seen to be practising what it preaches!”
Managing Director
Bill Wilkinson
THE recent Treasury Spending Review announced that the CRC energy efficiency scheme was tobe simplified to reduce the burden on businesses, with the first allowance sales for 2011-12 emissions now taking place in 2012 rather than 2011.
The CRC energy efficiency scheme, formerly known as the carbon reduction commitment, is a mandatory energy saving and carbon emissions reduction scheme for the UK. The scheme is intended to raise awareness of energy consumption in large organisations, especially at a senior level, and to encourage changes in behaviour and infrastructure. It applies principally to large businesses and public sector organisations. The scheme originally required organisations to buy allowances based on their level of electricity use in April 2011. Depending on the performance of the organisation, the money would then be returned with a bonus or penalty in October 2011.
Nicola Tiffen, a partner in Hay & Kilner’s commercial property unit, said: “This delay in the requirement to purchase the allowances until April 2012 is generally good news, although the allowances must still cover emissions from 2011-2012 onwards. There is also a likelihood that participants will have to buy two years’ worth of allowances, some retrospectively for 2011- 2012 and some going forward to cover 2012 – 2013.
Councils have an opportunity to take some quick steps to reduce their tax obligations under the Carbon Reduction Commitment, writes Matt Fulford
Buried in section 2.108 of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) was a fundamental change to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), turning what was an incentive into a tax and leaving local authorities with something to think about.
All organisations using more than 6,000MWh per year of electricity will be paying 8-9% of their energy costs in a ‘carbon tax’ to the government by 2012, and contrary to original plans, not getting any of this back. Local authorities will need to take practical measures immediately to reduce carbon emissions, and in particular consider those from their schools.
Our initial calculations suggest that councils will have to find between £150,000 and £300,000 per year from 2012 to pay for this change, with 50-60% of this cost arising from schools’ emissions. However under the new system the cost of carbon can be directly passed on to schools, which was impossible under the complex original scheme. If local authorities were to do this we estimate the cost would be an average of £1,500 for a primary school and £4,500 for a secondary school.
Other changes following the CSR will remove the financial links to the CRC league table and achieving the Carbon Trust Standard, making them solely measures for improving reputations.