ICF Consulting Advises UK Carbon Trust on Development of Carbon Management Programme for UK Businesses

LONDON, UK, October 8, 2003 – Earlier this year, The Carbon Trust of the UK appointed ICF Consulting to design its Pilot Carbon Management Programme for UK-based companies. The programme, which has just been launched by the Carbon Trust, is a pioneering initiative to provide guidance and technical support to UK entities seeking to integrate the effective management of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into their core business or operational strategies. The programme is expected to be of particular importance given the large number of entities in the UK that will be required to act to reduce their contribution to global warming, given regulatory, customer, investor or other stakeholder requirements.

In addition to evaluating the business case for the programme for both for the Carbon Trust and end users, ICF Consulting assisted with the development of the overall approach to carbon management. This area of assistance included developing analytical tools and methodologies, publicity, and technical guidance documentation. The Carbon Trust's Carbon Management Programme is based on the lessons learned from the best practices of UK and international companies that have adopted a proactive stance on Carbon Management. In addition to providing support and guidance to identify and appraise options for carbon abatement, the Programme provides detailed guidance to assist companies to appraise the business case for carbon management and implement the necessary organisational changes to promote a long-term and sustained commitment to this important issue.

"We were honoured to be involved in such a pioneering initiative that can provide real practical and commercially-relevant support for UK-based companies in the face of increasing requirements for the minimisation of GHG emissions" says Abyd Karmali, ICF Consulting's Director of European Climate Change Services. " In particular, the guidance tools go further than those already in existence by enabling companies to begin to understand and quantify the commercial implications of forthcoming GHG policies, such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, for their businesses."

Mr. Karmali continued, "We were in a privileged position to be able to synthesise the lessons learned through our own 15 years' of carbon management advisory experience and the Carbon Trust's own activities with a range of UK entities taking a proactive stance on this issue. We believe that the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management Programme will be of great value to a large number of UK entities and will play a valuable contribution in helping the UK Government to meet its national objectives to reduce GHG emissions." The Carbon Trust's Carbon Management Programme will be tested over the next 18 months through a pilot study involving a number of leading UK companies.

Learn more about the The Carbon Trust's Carbon Management Programme.