Calculating the Cumulative Administrative Burden of Energy and Climate Change Reporting Requirements on UK

The overall aim of this work is twofold. First is to calculate the cumulative administrative burden of the carbon reduction policies outlined in Table 1 on UK businesses.

Second is to examine the business energy and climate change reporting landscape legislation holistically to understand the overlapping burden of the several different schemes, and provide recommendations on how processes could be improved and simplified. Possible examples of simplification include making the following changes across the schemes: removing possible duplication of effort, aligning reporting periods, standardising reporting units, standardisation of documentation submissions and verification requirements and the sharing of data, so business only has to submit information once, and not each time per differing scheme.