Flood risk management and funding
This briefing paper provides an overview of flood and coastal risk management in the UK, including which bodies manage risk, current policy on flood risk management, and how flood funding works.
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The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (83KB PDF)
The CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment) Energy Efficiency Scheme (EES) is a mandatory carbon dioxide emission reporting and trading scheme, intended to promote energy efficiency in large public and private sector organisations. However, the 2010 Spending Review delayed its full implementation and changed the scheme’s details, and following Budget 2012, it is now under review through a DECC consultation.
Smaller organisations report emissions and are then placed in performance league tables, and larger ones do this too, but also have to trade allowances to emit carbon. A draft Order for the first trading round has just (May 2012) been laid, and the first performance league tables were published in November 2011.
The CRC EES has been criticised however by businesses, who say it is too complex, and complain that any revenues raised through trading will not be recycled to the best-performing companies as originally planned, but instead retained by the Treasury. Budget 2012 said that if the scheme cannot be simplified to produce “very significant administrative savings” for businesses, then it will be replaced by “an alternative environmental tax” on which the Government will consult in Autumn 2012
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The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (83KB PDF)
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El Niño conditions form when warmer waters spread across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, resulting in global changes to weather and climate. Several forecasts from national weather agencies indicate that the next El Niño could be one of the strongest on record.
