This project looks to identify barriers different low income households face in reducing their carbon consumption. The research will help provide an evidence base for policymakers to encourage low carbon living in socioeconomically disadvantaged households across metropolitan and regional Australia.
The project will involve focus groups and interviews with lower income households in four states with different climatic zones as well as workshops with state agencies, major charitable organisations, and welfare peak bodies. It will identify day-to-day practices of households that can contribute to reducing carbon consumption, the financial and non-financial barriers to further carbon reductions by these households, and how policies may assist them to reduce their carbon consumption further.