PARTICIPANTS
scheme, there are a lot of issues about brand
awareness and the performance league table.”
Y
DECC
INDUSTRT Since the meeting, the Government has
CHAIR
POLICY
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confirmed that the rules have been changed
from the original draft legislation, so that sub-
sidiaries of large companies can qualify for
the scheme in their own right if they so wish.
“A good example,” said Mackenzie, “is a
big retail chain like the Arcadia Group, which
owns Top Shop and River Island. It can have
CHAIR, PROFESSOR MARTIN FRY NIALL MACKENZIE HEAD OF LYNNE CEENEY HEAD OF
CHAIRMAN, ESTA CARBON MARKETS, DECC SUSTAINABILITY, PARSONS
Top Shop [participate in the scheme] in its
BRINCKERHOFF own right. [But] once you have nominated
Y how you want to configure your organisation
INDUSTRT
EXPER you have to stick with that for the phase – we
will not allow people to play games and shift
a badly-performing part of the operation
round the organisation to massage the table,”
he stressed, adding that he hopes the decision
“will help some of the branding issues that
people have raised with us”. For a run-down
LAURENT MINEAU HEAD OF DR KEITH COLQUHOUN CLIMATE DR GRAHAM EARL HEAD OF
of the latest amendments made to the Carbon
ENERGY SERVICES, EDF ENERGY CHANGE STRATEGY MANAGER, CLIMATE CHANGE, BAA AIRPORTS
THAMES WATER Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency
Scheme, visit
www.decc.gov.uk.
Mackenzie added “the treatment of renew-
ables” and “early action opportunities” to his
list of issues that have arisen. But he con-
firmed that the scheme will be monitored
closely to observe what impact it has on com-
mercial growth. “If your business grows dra-
matically and you have been maintaining the
ANDREW FORTE DIRECTOR OF JOE GRICE ENERGY MANAGER, SIMON HARRIS MANAGER
same energy consumption, you are obviously
PROPERTY & UTILITIES, HILTON GUY’S & ST. THOMAS’ NHS ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
HOTELS FOUNDATION TRUST TEAM, RBS becoming more efficient,” he said. “There has
been quite a lot of debate in the previous con-
sultations about what the right metrics are for
growth. We are sticking with turnover,
because that is the lowest common denomina-
tor for the public sector and business.
“For later stages that is something that we
would need to keep an eye on. We do not
want to penalise you for growth if you are
HATTIE PARK PROJECT ROGER PARKER HEAD OF ALEX PITMAN GROUP ENERGY
managing your energy as part of that.”
MANAGER, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, SOUTHEND EFFICIENCY MANAGER,
SUSTAINABILITY, BBC OUTREACH BOROUGH COUNCIL THE CO-OPERATIVE ESTATES Listening intently to Mackenzie, Transport
for London’s (TfL) environment and climate
change coordinator, Helen Woolston
explained to the round table her predicament.
“A number of the different parts of TfL are
contracted-out or franchised,” she said. “For
example, the Docklands Light Railway is run
for us by Serco.” Woolston was unclear about
whether the operations of its contractors
SIMON TAYLOR HEAD OF CSR, TOM WAGLAND MANAGER, HELEN WOOLSTON
ought to be taken into account in calculating
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE
RICOH EUROPE CHANGE COORDINATOR, TfL TfL’s CRC commitment. What followed was
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