UK to launch emissions registry soon

Resumen de Prensa            Enervía, miércoles, 25 mayo 2005

FUENTE: Platts


The UK government is taking the final steps this week towards full UK participation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, it said Tuesday. Firms covered by the EU ETS will be able to open their UK carbon accounts later this week, with the launch of the UK's emissions trading registry, a web-based software system for holding and transferring allowances. And individual installations covered by phase I of the scheme have now been informed of the number of allowances they will receive. The government said the registry had been developed by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the technology had already been licensed for use by twelve other states. "I am delighted this scheme is now going live in the UK. It will become one of the main ways to cut carbon dioxide emissions, while maintaining economic growth," said environment secretary Margaret Beckett. Electronically-linked national registries are central to both the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and wider international emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol. The twelve other countries that have been licensed to use the UK's registry software are: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Sweden, the Netherlands and Norway. Four of these --Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands--have already started trading.