The published CRC league table aims to provide a strong financial and reputational incentive for participants to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The league table will enable businesses, consumers, clients and the media to identify the annual CO2 reduction performance of all participants in the scheme. Participants will need to ascertain how various league table positions could impact on the organisation’s brand. Several factors should be taken into consideration:

• How will your CRC league table position affect your organisation’s sales?
• Where will your major clients be in the league table and where will they expect you to be?
• Will your league table position match your recent environmental PR and marketing claims?
• How will your competitors react to your league table position?
• What will be the total business cost of your league table position?

During the first year of the CRC, participants will achieve a league table position based on the Early Action Metrics that include optimum installation of Automated Meters and successful accreditation to the Carbon Trust Standard, or an approved equivalent.

It is considered likely that many participants within the CRC will already have full AMR, or only be required to implement relatively low cost and simple measures to achieve this status. As such, participants will need to attain full AMR and at least partial Carbon Trust Standard accreditation, if they are to achieve a reasonably good ranking in the early years of the CRC league table.