4660.0 - Energy Use, Electricity Generation and Environmental Management, Australia, 2011-12 Quality Declaration
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 12/08/2013
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT · Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Services (ANZSIC Subdivision 28); · Public administration (ANZSIC Subdivision 75); · Defence (ANZSIC Subdivision 76); · General government (SISCA 3000); · MNEUs in subdivisions 30, 31, 32, 46, 51, 67 During the 2011-12 reference period 38.0% of businesses undertook environmental management activities. Large businesses indicated a participation rate of 79.3% in contrast to small businesses with 36.8%. The industries with the highest participation rate for environmental management activity were Electricity, gas, water and waste services industry and the Manufacturing industry with 54.5% and 53.1% respectively. The most common type of environmental management practice was recycling or reuse of materials with 33.7% of businesses undertaking this activity. Large businesses were more likely to have an environmental impact assessment/risk assessment, with 43.0%, in contrast to 6.1% of small businesses. The following data reflect the results for businesses which indicated that they had implemented improvements to environmental management practices during 2011-12. The major motivating factor for these businesses to implement improvements was ethical reasons, accounting for 50.0% of total selected industries. Large businesses indicated their major motivations were cost savings (63.7%), ethical reasons (60.6%), improving or maintaining company reputation and/or public relations (52.7%) and compliance with Government regulations (51.5%). Small businesses also cited ethical reasons and cost saving as major motivators, with 48.9% and 37.3% respectively. The following data reflect only the results for businesses which indicated that they had attempted to reduce energy consumption and/or improve energy efficiency during 2011-12. Of these businesses, 29.5% indicated that a major barrier in achieving this reduction was the length of time it took to recuperate their costs, referred to as payback time. In terms of business size, 48.5% of large businesses indicated that this was a major barrier, in contrast to 28.4% of small businesses. |