The football season is over (it isn’t really but that’s what you tell people who don’t like football) but talk of league tables isn’t. In fact, having just submitted the Intellect response to the DECC consultation on The Carbon Reduction Commitment, league tables are very much front of mind. I can’t help thinking that the hackneyed old saying from football managers past and present that “the table doesn’t lie” might not be true when it comes to Government carbon reduction policy. If the CRC goes through as drafted it could lead to the publication of misleading company league tables that don’t accurately reflect the energy efficiency gains made by those listed. It could could be particularly bad for IT companies who take on the energy liability of other organisations when IT functions are outsourced to them. These processes will probably be carried out far more efficiently but the IT company will in effect be penalised in the lague table for growing it’s business and saving energy! The CBI and Intellect are together on challenging this and we hope things will change otherwise football managers everywhere will have to add a caveat to their favourite soundbite.

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