As Parliament passed New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme into law, ShapeNZ survey of 2317 New Zealanders, including 527 business decision makers, revealed only eight percent of organisations they work for or own have an emissions reduction plan in place.
Has an emissions reduction plan been implemented?
All respondents
Yes8%
No20%
Don’t Know31%
N/A41%
Business decision makers
Yes12%
No34%
Don’t Know20%
N/A33%
Source: ShapeNZ/ New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development, September 10-12, 2008. Weighted by age, gender, ethnicity, employment status, personal income and party vote 2005. Maximum margin of error +/- 2% on national sample, 4.3% on business sample.
ShapeNZ is operated by the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development. www.shapenz.org.nz and www.nzbcd.org.nz
