16 April 2012
Our latest issue of Carbon Law - to help you keep up to date on key climate change and emissions trading issues.
12 January 2012
The latest edition of our Environment and Energy Law newsletter, bringing you news and updates on a wide range of issues.
28 December 2011
The Energy Act 2011 received royal assent on 18 October and passed into law less than a year after it was introduced to the House of Lords in December 2010. The Act deals with the following key themes: energy efficiency, security of energy supplies and measures for reducing carbon emissions. The largest part of the Act introduces the coalition’s flagship ‘Green Deal’ policy to encourage and facilitate the retrofitting of existing properties. Burges Salmon has played and continues to play a significant role in the development of this policy, which is the focus of this article.
23 December 2011
On Wednesday 21 December 2011 the European Court of Justice ruled that the application of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to airline operators flying in and/or out of the EU was lawful.
07 December 2011
The aviation industry will come within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme from 1 January 2012. Airlines would be well advised to grab this particular nettle and deal with risk and cost management in the context of the EU ETS, by implementing appropriate emissions trading strategies. We have prepared a detailed briefing note on the subject.
01 July 2011
On 30 June 2011, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) outlined its proposals to make the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) easier and simpler for businesses.
13 May 2011
DEFRA released a consultation yesterday inviting views on four alternative options they could use to introduce carbon reporting for businesses. This consultation will be relevant to your business if it is a quoted company, a large company or has at least one half hourly meter and consumes more than 6,000 MWh of qualifying electricity per year.
05 April 2011
The latest edition of our Environment and Energy Law Newsletter.
01 December 2010
The latest edition of our Environment and Energy Law Newsletter.
26 August 2010
Have you complied with the September 2010 registration deadline?
14 June 2010
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010 has now been published and is in force. The final publication of the Order follows several rounds of Government consultation, and now provides organisations with the certainty required to evaluate whether their particular organisation is covered by the Scheme, to what extent, and if so, what now needs to be done.
23 April 2010
A review of 4 key developments in regulation shake-up
21 January 2010
Does the Copenhagen Accord represent a failure to agree a way forward for dealing with climate change?
08 October 2009
The Government has now published its response to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) consultation that closed in June 2009, which announces some fundamental changes to the proposed structure of the CRC scheme. This briefing note summarises the changes.