Identification

Title

Climate Change Agreements

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

Details of current or terminated Climate Change Agreements (CCA) for the UK under the Climate Change Agreements (Administration Facilities) Regulations 2012. The Climate Change Agreement scheme has 51 sectors of various business types. Each sector has its own umbrella agreement which sets out improvement targets for each sector. A sub-sector is a practical method of partitioning within a sector such that the target units (Operators) in each sub-sector carry out the same or similar processes and/or have either all energy targets or all carbon targets. A trade association or other body may represent a sector of industry. Some sectors have set up (or plan to set up) subsidiary or separate organisations to represent them in the agreements. This sector/trade association will look after the management of all the operators which fall within their sector. For example a supermarket chain would be the Operator, each store which is eligible to be in the scheme would be a facility and all the facilities together would form a target unit. A target unit can just hold one facility or it may be a multi-facility target unit. The target unit holds an underlying agreement which sets out the targets that the target unit must meet. Eligibility to hold a CCA depends on the operator carrying out a listed ‘eligible process’. The CCA scheme runs from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2023. Industrial operators that enter into and abide by the terms and conditions of their CCA are entitled to a discount on the Climate Change Levy (CCL), a tax added to electricity and fuel bills to encourage operators to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they emit. Operators holding CCAs must monitor and report their energy consumption against agreed targets across four two-year target periods – each covering two calendar years – running from 2013 to 2020. At the end of each target period, operators meeting their targets will be certified to continue to receive the CCL discount. CCAs are voluntary agreements containing targets to increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Facility and Target Unit addresses for 6 specific sectors are not released, for National Security/Site Security reasons. The sectors are NFU1 (Pigs), NFU5 (Eggs & Poultry Meat), BMPA (Meat), BPC1 (Poultry Meat), BPC2 (Poultry Meat Processing and Feed and DATC (Data Centres). Energy efficiency improvements and emission reductions data may not be included for some sites where a case for commercial confidentiality has been accepted. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://ea.sharefile.com/d-sdcec7883d694408b

protocol:

name:

description: External version on Defra Data Services Platform

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

protocol: http:

name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM

description: DEFRA Data Services Platform Customer Forum

Unique resource identifier

code

f7dd9552-991f-4c2e-b1d4-929f70faf8e6

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Keyword set

keyword value

climate protection

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.1

East bounding longitude

1.7

North bounding latitude

60.9

South bounding latitude

50

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

GB-ENG

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2016-06-27

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

No lineage recorded

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Proprietary format | MS Excel (XLS)

version of format

Not Applicable

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-19

Metadata language

eng