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- Title
Local authorities, climate change and small and medium enterprises: identifying effective policy instruments to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.
- Authors
Bradford, Jaryn; Fraser, Evan D. G.
- Abstract
This paper discusses potential policy options available to local and municipal authorities, to achieve reductions in energy usage and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Researchers conducted surveys with 112 SMEs, and the results have been used to disaggregate the category of ‘SME’ into sub-sectors based on industrial sector, two measurements of employee size and annual turnover. A statistical analysis identifies key characteristics and behaviours of the sub-sectors of firms and discusses the type of policy measure these groups of SMEs would probably respond to. The key results of the research indicate that categories of firms differ in terms of energy use behaviours, internal constraints and attitudes toward possible policy options. The paper presents a ‘policy matrix’ to represent the most and least likely policy options to achieve energy savings from different categories of SMEs. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
- Subjects
LOCAL government; ENERGY consumption; GREENHOUSE gas mitigation; CLIMATE change; BUSINESS enterprises &; the environment; ENERGY management; SMALL business; POLLUTION prevention; SOCIAL responsibility of business
- Publication
Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental Management, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 3, p156
- ISSN
1535-3958
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/csr.151