Legislation 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which the Government had already scrapped before its second year and a mechanism which one can’t help but feel will be superseded by mandato- ry reporting, albeit for fewer companies initially.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 organi- sation 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


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