Garnaut update paper 1 – costs and benefits
Academic economists will undoubtedly spend some time on the more technical aspects of the first update paper of the Garnaut review and the accompanying commissioned technical report. The discussion comes down to two main points: how do you value the [...]
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 [...]
Emissions vs. Allocations
Australia’s total greenhouse emissions, assuming a 450ppm target and “backstop technology”. Source: Garnaut Review Final Report, Figure 23.6
Open Garnaut Review report thread
It’s out today. LP bloggers will have more during the day as it’s digested, but here’s an open thread for instant analysis and commentary. Please also feel free to link in comments to other posts or articles. By way of [...]
Climate change and electoral politics
There’s lots more interesting stuff in this report at Australian Policy Online about two exit polls taken at the time of the 2007 federal election (and the AES), but this might be a relevant thing for Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong [...]
Garnaut responds (in part)
Ross Garnaut has responded to some of the criticism by scientists and environmentalists of the suggested targets in his latest report, with an open letter. In it, he repeats that he thinks that more aggressive carbon cuts, of the kind [...]
How much to go further?
The latest round of critiques of the Garnaut report have emerged, this time from some of Australia’s best-known climate scientists. They all argue that Garnaut should be telling the Australian government to push for a more aggressive global deal, rather [...]
Garnaut targets, lesson #2 – international linkage
Watching Insiders today, I heard lots on the latest Garnaut report. Sadly, there seems little evidence that anybody (notably including Brendan Nelson) has bothered to read it in detail. Nobody seems to have grasped, for instance, that Garnaut is arguing [...]
Where did Garnaut's targets come from?
There’s been a lot of criticism of the emissions targets suggested in the Garnaut Review’s supplementary modelling report. But there hasn’t been a great deal of explanation as to how he came up with them, which might be useful to [...]
Open Garnaut Review Targets and Trajectories thread
[Update: {by Kim} Garnaut has recommended a low target - 10% by 2020. Details in the press release here, and the address can be downloaded here. Links to pdfs.] Ross Garnaut will be at the National Press Club in Canberra [...]
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