By Brian on August 10, 2011
In case the acronym hasn’t stuck yet, CEF means Clean Energy Future. If I’d said “carbon tax”, no problems. In my 2009 submission to the Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy I ripped into the Rudd Government for commissioning Ross [...]
Posted in Climate change, Climatology, Featured | Tagged carbon price, climate sensitivity, emissions reductions, Garnaut, Sea level rise, Stern Review |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2010
Writing in today’s Fin, Laura Tingle, who’s normally very well informed, reports on work being done in the Department of Climate Change on a new version of the ETS, this time based on consumption not production. The idea is that [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Markets, NSW Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, Bruce Hawker, carbon price, carbon tax, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, consumption, consumption based ets, Copenhagen, cprs, Department of Climate Change, direct action, ets, Federal Election 2010, Garnaut, graham richardson, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, Laura Tingle, Mark Arbib, market based mechanisms, NSW Labor, NSW Right, Penny Wong, Polls, production, rent seeking, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Brian on March 25, 2009
He’s already been to Melbourne and Sydney, sorry, but Guy Pearse is coming to Brisbane on Thursday, 26 March and Canberra on Wednesday, 1 April to discuss his Quarterly Essay, Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom, Coal industry, Garnaut, Guy Pearse, Quarry Vision: Coal, Quarterly essay 33 |
By Guest Poster on November 5, 2008
Director of the Centre for Policy Development Miriam Lyons writes: Barack Obama’s victory represents a watershed in American history, but it will also have ramifications around the world. Before I head out to celebrate I thought I’d just bash out [...]
Posted in Australiana, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, Government, Immigration, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, aid, Australian implications, barack obama, behavioural economics, center for american progress, Climate change, copenhagen negotiations, CPD, Democrats, economic policy, Foreign policy, Garnaut, green jobs, green Keynesianism, international development, john podesta, Miriam Lyons, multilateralism, public policy, think tanks, UN, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By dk.au on September 18, 2008
Only three weeks after the official close of submissions (many businesses asked for an extension) it looks like we might see a White Paper as soon as the 3rd of October. This suggests the government has a clear idea of [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Federal Elections, Markets, Politics | Tagged carbon pollution reduction scheme, democracy, emissions trading, emissions trajectories targets, Garnaut, Green Paper, white paper |
By dk.au on August 19, 2008
WorleyParsons’ PR coup last week indicated a thirst for big interventions into an otherwise rather bleak energy policy landscape ((Two particular stories stand out: (1) Australia’s main carbon capture collective, CO2CRC, flagged the need for an additional $300m to keep [...]
Posted in Climate change, Consumerism, Culture, Disasters, Energy, Ethics, Markets, Media, Sociology | Tagged carbon pollution reduction scheme, emissions trading, Energy, energy policy, engineering solutions, Garnaut, Sociology, solar thermal, worleyparsons |
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