CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Budaragina, Marianna |
|---|---|
| Title | The Evaluation of Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (2010-2013): the current situation and the ways ahead |
| Summary | Aiming at an 80% GHG emissions reduction by 2050, the UK has implemented a high number of climate change mitigation policies, among which the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) has become an issue of wide discussion and criticism. Having been implemented in 2010 to incentivise energy efficiency and carbon management improvement in the UK non energy-intensive organisations of the public and private sectors, CRC has already gone through serious changes. This research provides an evaluation of the CRC performance in the first three years of its implementation (2010-2013), aiming to examine its success in terms of energy efficiency improvement. The interviews of the CRC participants and experts, online survey of the participating organisations, analysis of the Schneider Electric statistical data as well as literature review of the latest CRC-related publication have been carried out in the course of this research. Together these methods allowed to demonstrate the functional and instrumental overlap with the other UK climate policies (CCL, Mandatory Carbon Reporting), resulting in redundancy of CRC, and outline scheme’s main achievements and drawbacks. The key achievements include increasing the importance of the energy efficiency discussion among participating organisations and further encouraging signing the Climate Change Agreements. The main flaws were defined as high cost and complexity, instrumental problems, misleading incentives with regards to the used fuels and political instability of the scheme implementation. No serious energy efficiency improvement took place as a result of CRC compliance. The concluding part provides brief recommendations for further CRC development, showing the need for a greater accent on the environmental implications of the scheme and merging CRC with the other climate change policies in order to address the problem of complexity and high administrative cost. |
| Supervisor | Mnatsakanian, Ruben |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/budaragina_marianna.pdf |
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