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The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)
is one of the tools implemented by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), that will help reduce carbon emissions
in the UK.
CRC addresses these
issues in two main ways, charging organisations on the carbon emissions that result from their energy use and putting the
environmental performance of organisations in the public eye, by publishing the performance of all those covered by the scheme
in a league table.
How it works The CRC affects most organisations with a half hourly electricity consumption of over 6,000 MWh per annum
(circa £500k).
At the start of each year, organisations affected are required to purchase allowances of carbon that they
expect to emit over the following year. At the end of each year, organisations covered will be placed in the CRC league table.
Carbon allowances will then be recycled based on ranking within the league table. Organisations with poor
environmental performance will be penalized, whilst those with good performance will be
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