Clean economy jobs pay better, employ more workers
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.
Denniss: The CPRS is pointless. It's Copenhagen that counts.
Dr Richard Denniss from The Australia Institute writing in today’s Crikey [reproduced with permission]: The Senate debate about the CPRS is getting close, and with views as diverse as those of Steve Fielding and Bob Brown it’s likely to be [...]
Gifts, value and 'futile' [State] emissions reductions
Sociologists and anthropologists have long been fascinated by the place of gift giving and reciprocity in constituting communities. Drawing on ethnographic research in the Pacific, Mauss argued against the idea that gifts are ‘free’ in the political economic sense of [...]
Per capita emissions and the Europe claim: CPRS White paper
One of the arguments Kevin Rudd has used to deflect criticism of the White Paper is to seize on Ross Garnaut’s per capita calculations and to contend that we will still be cutting emissions further than the EU. Christine Milne: [...]
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