Future of Work Tripartite Forum Research: Insights into emissions-intensive, trade-exposed businesses (stage two)

In June, Preston Davies, Dr Jamie O’Hare and Douglas Yee completed Stage two of research into the economic impact and interdependencies of emissions-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) businesses in New Zealand.

Stage one, completed last year, explored the transition of EITE businesses to a low-emissions economy, identifying challenges, opportunities, and solutions for a just transition. From that research we identified the challenges and opportunities associated with a low-carbon future, including understanding the economic impacts of EITE business shrinkage or closure in New Zealand supply chain resilience and availability of alternative fuels, and New Zealand’s strategic resilience in the global economy.

Stage two addressed these three points of further research by:

• examining the key interdependencies between EITE businesses and the rest of the economy
• estimating how employment and GDP would be affected by a change in the collective output of EITE businesses; and
• considering how policy could be configured to support economic resilience.

More information can be found on the MBIE website.