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Large organisations compelling supply chains to reduce their emissions

Nick Fedson MEng MSc

Small or unprepared organisations might find their clients’ demands challenging.

As organisations grow and their operations become more complex, so do their supply chains. In 2019, CDP’s supply chain report revealed that, among CDP respondents, supply chain emissions tend to be five and a half times greater than operational emissions. The 2020 edition of the same report revised the estimate significantly thanks to improvements in emissions accounting across supply chains. CDP respondents today estimate that their supply chain emissions are more than eleven times greater than their operational emissions.

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Targeted Charging Review

Fahira Batovac

The Targeted Charging Review (TCR) is an Ofgem led project and it represents a radical change in the way business are charged for transmission and distribution costs. It assesses how residual network charges, which recover sunk or fixed costs of the network companies, should be set and recovered. The impact of this change will depend upon customer’s circumstances and usage behavior.

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Build Back Better

Samuel Clements

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to ensure our economy is sustainable and resilient in the long term. It has reminded us how the biggest crises, whether medical or environmental, demand an ambitious and collective response. That is why it is our vision to help all our clients to set and achieve ambitious decarbonisation targets.

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Designing a successful, finance-grade, ESG strategy

Gianluigi Corbani

An ever-increasing number of large corporates are responding to pressure from investors, customers and the wider stakeholders’ community by making highly visible commitments to decarbonize. This accelerating trend is in turn increasing the demand for finance-grade greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting to underpin not only emissions disclosures but also wider efforts to develop sustainable Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies.

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OPEC Agrees to Increase Output Gradually During 2021

John Hall

180th OPEC Conference & 12th OPEC and Non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting – 3rd December 2020

In spite of the pandemic, OPEC would still like to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary, and like all long-term relationships, attitudes change and for OPEC, so too do partners. There is always talk of discord in the relationship and that it is on the verge of collapse, but reality always kicks in as the members realise that without the support of each other, and particularly the main players, their voices would never be heard, individual policies would falter, and they would lose any sense of direction. As one of the smaller members said to me some time ago, we each have one vote, yet those with a bigger output seem to have a bigger vote! Not all are equal. (more…)

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Don’t Delay Your CCA

Jeremy Nicholson

Government gives green light to those eligible to save money and set course for net zero

For any business with eligible processes and plans to reduce energy or carbon emissions, applying for a Climate Change Agreement (CCA) should be a no-brainer.

The government has published its response to the consultation on an extension to the current scheme for CCAs, which relieve eligible energy-intensive users from most of the costs of the Climate Change Levy (CCL). The consultation outlined proposals to extend the scheme by two years and open it up to new entrants, allowing eligible facilities not currently participating to apply to join in 2021. The consultation received 101 responses, which fed into the final decision-making.
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