Media alert: One month to the CRC EES – is your organisation ready?

Published 3rd March 2010

The UK’s largest organisations have only one month remaining to set up effective monitoring strategies to help them manage their liabilities under the Government’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.

The reminder comes from CA, one of the world’s leading independent IT firms, which is helping blue chip organisations track and reduce emissions for the CRC’s mandatory targets. The company believes that large organisations usually need a minimum of 3 months to organise a carbon monitoring framework, but this can be reduced to 1 month with the right tools

The CRC EES demands reporting of carbon emissions from corporate activities from April 1, 2010. The legislation affects any UK user of 6000MWh or more of electricity and forces them to cut their carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. A public league table will rank organisations’ performance on energy efficiency and carbon. Penalties will be levied on non-compliant organisations.

CA’s carbon emissions tracking work for Tesco – part of the retailer’s pledge to halve its emissions by 2020 even before the CRC’s targets were published – is part of one of the most comprehensive corporate responses yet seen to the climate change and sustainability issues facing large organisations. CA is also reporting against the CRC for its own operations in the UK and Ireland.

UK plc - CRC “state of play” briefing opportunities:
Sonny Masero, VP CA EcoSoftware and Colin Bannister of CA’s Technical Sales, can provide a UK plc “state of play” telephone briefing covering:

• Level of “CRC readiness” among UK blue chip firms and government departments
• Critical steps and timings for organizations to set up a framework for CRC compliance
• Practical challenges for large organisations in:
o understanding their liabilities
o monitoring carbon emissions and other indicators and reducing them


About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent IT management software company. With CA’s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organisations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimise business performance and sustain competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.ca.com/gb
About CA ecoSoftware

CA’s EcoSoftware incorporates risk management and monitoring software - based on sustainability management, carbon management, environmental assessment and operational energy management modules. These tools enable organizations to set targets on key environmental indicators such as carbon emissions, water usage and waste generated and then monitor their reduction over time, which have proved problematic for many organisations.

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