Structural challenges that contributed to the decline of the Communities for Climate Protection program

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Birchall, S. Jeff

• In 2004 New Zealand’s (NZ) Labour-led government launched the Communities for Climate Protection - NZ (CCP-NZ) programme. Following a shift in Government leadership in 2008, from Clark’s Labour-led to Key’s National-led government, the CCP-NZ programme was discontinued. Through the narratives of managers charged with the implementation and delivery of the CCP-NZ programme, this paper explores the structural challenges that contributed to the initiative's decline in NZ local government. This research contributes to the academic literature by shedding light on the outworking of a local government carbon management strategy. Additionally, this study provides policy makers and managers seeking to embark on organizational carbon mitigation the opportunity to glean insight from the experience of public sector managers responsible for the CCP-NZ programme.

• Date created

  2014

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Local government
  • Managers
  • Carbon management
  • New Zealand

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R36688Z4M

• License

  © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.