The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that both the Carbon Trust and the Energy Saving Trust will no longer receive core Government funding. This news comes after the coalition revealed its deficit reduction program, but again works against the promise to become the ‘greenest Government ever’.
The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that both the Carbon Trust and the Energy Saving Trust will no longer receive core Government funding. This news comes after the coalition revealed its deficit reduction program, but again works against the promise to become the ‘greenest Government ever’.
Starting from April next year, the trusts will be in a position to bid for Government contracts to deliver activities which support green programs, but will gain to guaranteed funding.
“The development of the Green Deal, an ambitious market-driven energy efficiency scheme, combined with the need to further prioritise public expenditure, mean that DECC needs to take a different approach to future delivery of energy efficiency and low carbon innovation. Similarly, spending on innovation in the future will be focused on a much smaller range of priority technologies,” a DECC spokersperson explained.
The Carbon Trust insists that the organisation is well-positioned to cope with the cuts, despite the prospect of its budget being reduced by more than half, while the Energy Saving Trust has now confirmed it is planning to seek charitable status.
