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The concern at the moment is our inability to see how those decisions are made. Carbon accounting is one of the best-developed sustainable accounting techniques.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 March 2009
There is then the question of lawyers collaborating with other professionals—accountants and so forth. We heard evidence from the chartered accountants that their rules already allow a solicitor to be a principal in a firm of accountants.
If there is a fee charged, that is not something that has been accounted for in the financial memorandum, because we do not know whether there will be a fee.
It might seem to be a throwaway line in the legislation about Scottish ministers having the ability to report, but the lay person would read it and say “Really?
The cumulative emissions gap is about 3.4 megatonnes in those terms, but it goes up to 7.6 megatonnes if you take ETS into account. It is hard to get such a complex picture across to the public; it is also hard to get it across to stakeholders—and, believe me, I have tried.
Many good people work in sports organisations, but I do not believe that they have the governance, accountability or transparency of funding that is needed to build confidence.