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By Mark Bahnisch on July 28, 2011
A report by the Brookings Institution has found that clean economy jobs pay low and semi-skilled workers in the US significantly better than the median. Similar research in Australia would be very valuable in informing the carbon price debate.
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Featured, Industrial Relations, USA | Tagged Brookings Institution, clean economy, Climate change, climate policy, Economics, emissions, green jobs, innovation, jobs, labour market, Paul Howes, polluting industries, research, Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment |
By dk.au on March 4, 2009
It might be argued that emissions trading with a soft start can still provide a framework for stronger efforts later. Perhaps. But the history of these types of policies is that poor initial design choices can prove very hard to [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Markets | Tagged climate policy, cprs, EU ETS, Green Paper, inside.org.au, Kyoto, Turnbull, white paper |
By dk.au on January 26, 2009
So Malcolm Turnbull has given a speech about climate policy to the Young Liberals Convention in Canberra (does that count as ‘annoucing policy’?) riffing off a rich heritage of Conservative climate campaigners from Thatcher, to Schwarznegger, David Cameron and, somewhat [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Howardia, Markets, Policy, Technology | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, biosequestration, climate policy, cprs, fiona wain, Green Carbon Initiative, Malcolm Turnbull, soil carbon |
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