CRC 'stealth tax' damaging attempts to cut carbon
New research being presented to Parliament today (May 17) indicates that attempts to encourage some of the UK's largest organisations to cut carbon have been hit by a change in government policy.
A Global Action Plan study carried out among 108 organisations affected by the carbon reduction commitment (CRC) indicates this change in policy has had a detrimental impact on encouraging them to save carbon.
The research revealed that 41% of respondents felt the CRC placed a high administrative burden on them with 42% stating that it had caused resources to be moved away from other sustainability initiatives.
The performance league table which was meant to drive change has also had little impact with 80% of respondents not changing their approach in response to the publication of the first league table.
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