The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) - the Government's new compulsory carbon emissions trading scheme - will start on 1 April this year.
CRC will involve thousands of businesses having to forecast, record and report their carbon dioxide emissions and, from April 2011, buy allowances to cover those emissions.
- Do you know whether or not your business is going to be caught under CRC?
- If your business is caught, has your Board approved a compliance strategy and senior management team approved a CRC compliance plan?
- Can you calculate your energy usage to within five per cent accuracy?
- Have you considered how you fare under CRC as tenant or landlord?
Environmental lawyers Rebecca Carriage and Oliver Ennis from Mills & Reeve, together with Phil Cookson (environmental scientist with Aardvark EM Limited, whose clients include the Westfield Group, the Diocese of London and the British Red Cross Society), will be talking you through what businesses need to know to decide whether or not they are obligated under CRC and, if so, what they need to do next.
10.45am Arrival for an 11am start
11am - 12pm Introductory session:
- Why CRC awareness is important for business
- The legislation - what does the scheme involve?
- Next steps for businesses under CRC
- Questions
12pm Refreshments
12.15pm - 1.15pm Worked case study discussing issues such as:
- How do you work out whether you are caught?
- How do you register?
- Hiving off of parts of a large business
- What is the position if you are a landlord or tenant?
- What happens to your joint venture company or franchisee?
- How the system works in practice - doing well in the "league table"
- Questions
1.15pm Sandwich lunch