Client: Ministry for the Environment

Date: 2003 to 2004

Author(s): Dr Ganesh Nana, Kel Sanderson, Mark Goodchild

This project assessed the eligibility for several firms who applied for NGAs as a result of the proposed introduction of a charge on carbon emissions. Eligibility was assessed according to pre-specified competitiveness-at-risk criteria. The criteria required a calculation of a firm’s costs, the proportion of a firm’s costs that were energy related, the impact on forecast profits of the imposition of a $25 per tonne carbon charge, and impact on return on capital employed.

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