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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Australian Business Not So Green

Australian businesses are significantly behind the eight ball in adjusting to an eco friendly future of carbon trading, emissions management and environmental controls. If you cannot measure your impacts, you cannot manage them or trade emissions.

A recently published report finds that most companies are struggling to measure greenhouse gases that come from a variety of sources, from factory emissions to waste and vehicle exhausts.

This is a problem because companies emitting large amounts of carbon-dioxide equivalent annually are required to begin reporting next year and for the rest, it will be phased over the following two years. And they're not ready yet!

Add to that another study, reported here, which has found that New Zealand businesses are almost five times greener than their Australian counterparts. The study found that more than half of Australian businesses surveyed don't monitor energy improvement targets.


Working in this field I can agree with this. There is a very large divide between these requirements and the awareness and preparation of business to comply. This is true across a wide range of environmental programmes related to business.

11 comments:

fake consultant said...

although i wouldn't be surprised if the basic trend is correct, i'm curious as to how the new zealand group could measure australia's output when austrailian industry can't seem to do so?

(you can't be 5 times better than an unknown quantity, eh?)

Colin Campbell said...

New Zealand is comparable to the US in terms of environmental management, without some of the legal encumberances and associated budgets. We have two senior New Zealand colleagues, who have recently joined our group and are only now getting their mind around the market drivers here in South Australia. It is many years behind the market in New Zealand, so I agree that the marker is harder to quantify, but it is very real.

River said...

Previous comment applies here also.

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