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Mandatory reporting 2/4
recent CRC Performance League Table
– a league which the Government had
already scrapped before its second year
and a mechanism which one can't help
but feel will be superseded by mandatory reporting, albeit for fewer companies
initially.
Indeed, participation in the CRC scheme,
and the learning that has driven, may
go a long way to explain the pervading
sense of calm about the imminent legal
responsibility to report GHG emissions
as part of annual reports and accounts.
Those participating in the CRC will
have a better understanding in regards
to the difficulties of putting in place an
efficient and effective monitoring and
measuring scheme.
Speaking to SB, Institute of
Environmental Management and
Assessment's (IEMA) executive director
of policy, Martin Baxter, agrees: "Through
the CRC, companies will have managed
data and information and would have
obtained an understanding of how to
identify where there are data gaps. They
can then apply that learning through
their organisation which is covered by
the mandatory reporting requirement.
"The synergy between mandatory
Organisations need to look further ahead
than simple, and immediate, compliance
reporting and the CRC is the top level
commitment and visibility of the organisation and also something that has a pub-
lic face which helps to catalyse internal
interest to drive improvement," he says.
However, that public face of the CRC
