Accounting for the Cost of Carbon
Price for small and medium business not sky high
The report presents the findings of industry research conducted by the National Centre for Sustainability (NCS) at Swinburne University of Technology from May to December 2009. The research program’s primary aim was to quantify the impact of a carbon price on small-medium enterprises (SME) and map the responses of different industries to the challenges of operating in and adapting to a carbon constrained economy.
Employing a variety of research methodologies (including modelling of comprehensive carbon footprint data bases, national surveys and focus groups) the research findings provides a new unique perspective and insight into likely cost impacts of emissions trading on small-medium sized business (SME). Supported by Senis and peer reviewed by Australia’s foremost experts, the research report demonstrates the likely cost of carbon for SMEs is not so "sky high."
Read the report here.
For the full set of the research survey data please contact the NCS via email
For more background on this research project, click here
For more information, please contact Scott McKenry on smckenry@swin.edu.au.
