Summary
This Report, ‘The
Carbon Trust: Accelerating the Move to a Low Carbon Economy’ (HC 7), focuses
on the function of the Carbon Trust and the cost effectiveness of its work.
The Carbon Trust has an important role in meeting the Government’s
target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent from 592 million
tonnes a year in 1990 to 474 million tonnes a year in 2010.
The National
Audit Office concludes that the Carbon Trust has substantially revised and
improved the earlier Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme.
Findings
include:
- The Carbon Trust has built up a strong brand image and
raised awareness in the business community and the public sector of the need to
reduce carbon dioxide emissions
- The Trust has drawn on its business
experience to develop advice on carbon dioxide reductions that offer a
financial benefit to businesses, and to lever private sector investment in low
carbon technology.
Recommendations include:
- Developing
and expanding the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme to enable
organisations to demonstrate that they are taking climate change seriously
- Building stronger links with overseas organisations to collate better
information on international progress in developing low carbon technologies
that could be used to support work being done in the United Kingdom.
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