Department of Climate Policy Cave-ins and Keeping Things Private
As Anna Rose points out, The Dept of Climate Change has made an inauspicious start to the year, proposing to remove the public disclosure of Corporate level GHG figures. Their concern is as follows: The label ‘energy production’ applies to [...]
Who'll get your CPRS dollars?
Short answer: big companies from The UK, America, State Gubbermints and some Aussie companies. Beyond the headline figure of a unilateral 5% cut on 2000 levels, the numbers that will get us there look deeply disturbing. As I argued, there [...]
Sold out for 2.2 billion a year
A couple of billion dollars a year. That’s all it would have taken to make the CPRS targets much more attractive. It’s actually a fairly simple calculation to figure out an upper bound on how much it would have cost [...]
Deeply unserious targets
I have a lot of reading to do over the next few days! However, you don’t need to dig very far to find the massive unseriousness – and probably disingenuousness – in the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme white paper.
Emissions Caps as (Social) Floors
I awoke to Fran Kelly struggling to elicit Richard Denniss’ point about an emissions cap acting as an implicit floor this morning. (Update: TAI Report) Even asking him the same set of questions twice didn’t seem to help. You need [...]
Modelling says: do a deal, and make it a good one
As Peter Wood notes, the Treasury modeling for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme contains some rather dodgy assumptions: as he puts it: “There is no way in hell that the international community could accept a 5% reduction from Australia that [...]
In politics, don't ask questions…
…unless you already know and like the answers you’re going to get. You’d reckon that the Opposition might have learned its lesson on that. It seems like they might need another one, given their response to the impending release of [...]
Emissions trading still on course for 2010
It seems that even the business lobby thinks that the the Liberal Party’s continued bleating for the delay in ETS introduction – the latest excuse, as pointed out by Ken at Surfdom being the credit crunch – isn’t a great [...]
SMH Death Spiral – Emissions Trading Edition
Oh dear. Anyone who’s still getting their ‘news’ from SMH needs their head examined: Subsidy for bulbs wasted: THE flawed scheme to cut greenhouse gas abatements by giving away lightbulbs has squandered an estimated $60 million of NSW taxpayers’ money, [...]
Throw another roo steak on the barbie
One of the new elements in the Garnaut Review’s final report is an analysis of “Transforming rural land use” in chapter 22. It’s a tour of some of the ways in which agricultural and forestry practices might change to increase [...]
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