"The Carbon Commissars are watching you! Companies face compulsory green auditors"

Source:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/the-carbon-commissars-are-watching-you-companies-face-compulsory-green-auditors/

The move to force mandatory reporting of energy use and CO2 emissions on private companies is draconian and intrusive.
 
... The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) yesterday published for consultation draft proposals to reform and augment mandatory requirements for audit and corporate governance:

(with) clear hints that government intends to put pressure on companies to engage specialist consultants in carbon emissions and energy consumption to audit their climate policy performance ...

This requirement should be seen in the context of the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting Regulations (SECR) which came into force in 2019, and in spite of its title greatly extended ... mandatory reporting supported by criminal sanctions for non- or misreporting.

... The new proposal for a separate energy and carbon audit — distinct from the financial audit and conducted by a different professional body — not only imposes further costs on businesses, but also creates a green profession focused on monitoring the requirements of the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting Regulations.

Since these are supported by criminal sanctions this is sinister and unwelcome development.

Intrusive and heavy-handed coercion of this kind is a strong disincentive to entrepreneurial behaviour at a time when growth in the British economy is urgently required.

"Government has already needlessly made it a criminal offence for businesses to misreport their energy consumption and carbon emissions, now it seems they are moving towards creating a separate professional class to police these regulations.

This is not how to make responsible businesses feel welcome in the UK.”

... You can just imagine how Greenpeace would be able to run amok with any companies it disapproved of."