Consultation start: 11 May 2011
Consultation end: 5 July 2011

Summary

A consultation document has been issued seeking your views on whether regulations should be introduced to make it mandatory for some UK companies to report on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or whether the Government should continue to encourage measuring and reporting of GHG emissions on a voluntary basis.

Section 85 of the Climate Change Act 2008 requires the Government to make regulations, under the Companies Act 2006, by 6 April 2012 requiring the directors’ report of a company to include information about GHG emissions as is specified in  regulations, or to lay a report before Parliament explaining why no such regulations have been made.

No decision has yet been made.  This consultation aims to inform Ministers’ decision on whether to introduce regulations.  The consultation document considers four different options, including a voluntary approach, designed to promote more widespread and consistent reporting by companies of GHG emissions.

Your views are sought on the questions that are asked at the end of the document on the four options presented and on the potential requirements of mandatory reporting, if introduced.

How to respond

Name: Carla Hopkins

Email: ghgreporting@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Address: Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Area 5C, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2AL

Telephone: 020 7979 8587

Downloads

20 May 2011

• Impact assessment (pdf, 1266 KB)

11 May 2011

• Consultation document (pdf, 403 KB)
• Letter (pdf, 105 KB)