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28th March 2008 - All central
Government departments will be included in a pioneering emissions trading
scheme that will also target emissions from large businesses including
supermarkets, banks, hotel chains and department stores, Environment Secretary
Hilary Benn said today.
The Carbon
Reduction Commitment (CRC), scheduled to begin operation in 2010, is a
mandatory emissions trading scheme that will cover around 5000 public and
private organisations, including government departments, retailers, banks and
local authorities, which combined account for 10 per cent of the UK economy’s
emissions. Mr Benn also announced that public sector bodies in England,
including local authorities and hospitals, would be supported in becoming more
energy efficient through an extra £30 million over three years in interest-free
loans for energy efficiency projects.
The further funding
for public sector loans, to be delivered by Salix Finance, forms part of the
Government’s £400 million domestic Environmental Transformation Fund. The Fund
invests in the demonstration and deployment of low carbon energy and energy
efficiency technologies in the UK,
to help reduce emissions and improve the security of energy supply. This builds on an existing fund of £21 million
in loans, which have already helped 100 public bodies including schools,
hospitals and local authorities, and funded nearly 1000 projects.
The Government
today published its response to over 200 public and private sector
organisations who wrote in during the consultation period on the Carbon
Reduction Commitment.
The scheme,
designed to save at least 4 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2020 –
the equivalent of taking more than a million cars off the road – will be
implemented through the Climate Change Bill, which is currently going through
Parliament.
Full
details of the Carbon Reduction Commitment, including the Government’s response
to the consultation, can be found at http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/uk/business/crc/index.htm
Full
details of the Salix scheme can be found at http://www.salixfinance.co.uk/home.html
Contact IT
Energy to find out how Faronics
Power Save qualifies under this funding scheme.
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