Response to GHG reporting consultation
ISEP has responded to Defra's consultation exercise on whether regulations should be introduced to make it mandatory for certain UK companies to report on their greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions.
As widely reported over the past year, ISEP supports a mandatory reporting requirement for all large companies – option 3 in Defra’s consultation – and has now submitted a response, which draws on direct evidence from ISEP members gleaned from surveys and workshops.
The response challenges some central aspects of the consultation’s accompanying impact assessment. Critically, this included assumptions relating to costs and benefits over time and to the value of GHG reporting.
The ISEP response addresses the specific consultation questions and presents practitioner-sourced evidence and information on the benefits, costs and value of GHG reporting. Summary findings and analysis from the June 2011 survey of ISEP members on GHG reporting are also included.
The full ISEP response is available from ISEP's website.
For enquiries about ISEP’s work on GHG reporting, please contact Nick Blyth, senior adviser for climate change, at [email protected].