International climate change policy after Copenhagen
Last night on Lateline, Ross Garnaut pointed out to an apparently taken aback Tony Jones that 57% support for the ETS – as a major reform – was actually extremely impressive. Today in New Matilda, Ben Eltham rightly says that [...]
Where now for the CPRS?
So, the Greens aren’t too sad that the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was blocked in the Senate – indeed they were a key component of that blocking. From the GreensMPs website: “The collapse of the Continue Polluting [...]
Monbiot, air travel and targets
In the discussion thread of the post Climate crunch carbonsink @ 131 linked to Monbiot’s 2006 piece on air travel. Here’s an extract: …while the mean distance travelled by car in the UK is 9,200 miles per year, in a [...]
The politics of the White Paper
There’s already been a fair bit of commentary on the carbon emissions White Paper here at LP. Bernard Keane sums up the substance accurately and concisely: The surrender is virtually complete. Our biggest polluters have won, and the rest of [...]
Emissions trading and rent seeking: round two
The Fin Review reported yesterday that a host of resource company execs are descending on Canberra on Friday for a pow wow with Martin Ferguson. Initially this meeting was being presented as a way of circumventing the BCA, who released [...]
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