New BP service will help industry manage climate change levy and improve environment

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(2001), "New BP service will help industry manage climate change levy and improve environment", Facilities, Vol. 19 No. 11/12. https://doi.org/10.1108/f.2001.06919kab.007

New BP service will help industry manage climate change levy and improve environment

New BP service will help industry manage climate change levy and improve environmentKeywords: Environmental management strategy, Energy saving

BP recently announced its development of a programme to assist companies respond to the Climate Change Levy. Through a new energy-environmental service, UK industrial companies will be able to better manage their energy needs and reduce emissions. It will also seek to help companies generate surplus emission credits and provide expert advice on how these can be traded through the UK emissions trading scheme, which becomes active in 2001.

BP recognised that its customers would need to acquire new expertise to respond to essential emission reduction targets set by the Government and to accommodate the costs and competitive implications of the climate change levy. By using its extensive experience and established emissions trading business network, BP's new programme is designed to help customers adapt positively to the challenges of CCL.

As Alistair Dutton, BP's Innovations Manager, explains, "BP has a substantial experience-base in energy-environmental management and emissions trading through piloting our own successful internal emissions trading scheme and our involvement with the UK emissions trading group. We want to offer this experience to our customers to show how energy-environmental management is as good for business as it is for our environment".

By adopting BP's new energy strategy, customers should create surplus emission credits, which can then be successfully traded with other UK companies. This in turn will generate new finance within the industrial economy to fund more projects linked to emission reductions and environmental improvements.

Companies can effectively "out-source" this non-core activity to an energy and environmental specialist, such as BP itself, and thereby adopt proven processes and practices which will lead to targets being achieved or exceeded.

For further information contact Ian Parry. Tel: +44 (0)1782 399444; Fax: +44 (0)1782 399777; E-mail: iparry@marketingmix.co.uk