Introduction

Welcome to CMI’s 2024 Australian Business Climate Survey. We invite you to respond as an individual business participant rather than on behalf of your organisation, and responses will be anonymous. There is also space to add comments below each question.

Since 2014, the survey has been a key barometer of business climate action and attitudes toward climate policy. The results of the survey have attracted significant media and decisionmaker interest and this year’s will again also inform CMI’s policy and advocacy agenda.

Around the globe the momentum to develop policies and regulations to transition to a net zero economy is accelerating. Countries are working to attract investment in a highly competitive global market dominated by the clean economy incentives in the US IRA Act, the Chinese clean industrial revolution and the EU Green New Deal, including its carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).

Australia has its own policy and reform agenda with the enhanced Safeguard Mechanism and the Net Zero Plan and Future Made in Australia initiatives. As we head towards our commitment of net zero by 2050, the Australian Government has to submit its nationally determined contribution for 2035 to the UNFCCC, due in early 2025.

This 2024 survey is a vital opportunity to provide information of business attitudes and experience in the decarbonisation journey, as well as perspectives on policy and broader market initiatives.

The survey is for you as an individual business participant, is confidential and will take approximately 10-15 minutes.

We hope for the results to be launched ahead of CMI’s 11th annual Australasian Emission Reduction Summit on 29-30 October.

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