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''Environmental policy.''  
''Environmental policy - UK.''  


The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is the UK's first mandatory carbon trading scheme to address climate change and to promote energy saving.  
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme was the UK's first mandatory carbon trading scheme to address climate change and to promote energy saving.  


It aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions not already covered by climate change agreements and the Emission Trading Scheme, by reducing the UK's carbon footprint and meeting the emissions reduction targets set out in the Climate Change Act of 2008.
It aimed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions not already covered by climate change agreements and the Emission Trading Scheme, by reducing the UK's carbon footprint and meeting the emissions reduction targets set out in the Climate Change Act of 2008.




It was formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).
It was formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).
The scheme was replaced in April 2019 by the UK's Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) regime.




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* [[Emission trading scheme]]
* [[Emission trading scheme]]
* [[Energy Transitions Commission]]
* [[Energy Transitions Commission]]
* [[IPCC]]
*[[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC)
* [[Merit order]]
* [[Merit order]]
* [[Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting]]


[[Category:Ethics_and_corporate_governance]]
[[Category:Ethics_and_corporate_governance]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Latest revision as of 15:37, 24 June 2022

Environmental policy - UK.

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme was the UK's first mandatory carbon trading scheme to address climate change and to promote energy saving.

It aimed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions not already covered by climate change agreements and the Emission Trading Scheme, by reducing the UK's carbon footprint and meeting the emissions reduction targets set out in the Climate Change Act of 2008.


It was formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).


The scheme was replaced in April 2019 by the UK's Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) regime.


See also