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5 Environmental Report
The Ministry’s environmental performance for the 2006/07 financial year is measured using the following key parameters: materials used, waste produced and energy used (including transport energy). The Ministry’s carbon footprint is also reported on.
The Ministry’s environmental performance is expressed throughout this chapter both as overall totals and totals per full-time equivalent staff member totals (FTE)2.
Highlights and areas for improvement
2Although FTE and total occupancy figures are within three per cent of each other, we use FTE figures to calculate totals per staff member as we believe it is the best indication of time spent by staff in the building using resources.
FTE total represents the employed time at work as a decimal. For example, a full-time staff member is 1.00, a half-time staff member is 0.50. This figure does not include contractors, but it does include permanent, fixed termers, casuals and staff on secondment out of the organisation. Staff on parental leave and leave without pay have an FTE of 0.
To calculate the total Ministry FTE for a given year, an average is used. This is derived from FTE numbers at the end of the previous financial year and the end of the current year. While the Wellington office currently records FTE figures yearly, the Auckland and Christchurch offices record their FTE figures monthly.
