Climate Policy

There are however some important aspects of the detailed policy approach that make the risks and the economic costs larger than they need to be. It follows many of the broad principles of the hybrid approach set out in Climate Policy After Kyoto: A ...
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The climate policy package is one of those occasions. It will help get change under way towards an energy system that is no longer dominated by coal. Two years after climate policy was in deep freeze, this is quite a remarkable outcome, ...
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But natural climate hazard in Australia is so dangerous that nonetheless a need remains for a politically feasible, environmentally sensible and cost-effective climate policy. That policy should be to prepare for and adapt to all climatic hazards, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Age

AUSTRALIA is expected to generate six times more renewable energy and up to three times more gas-fired power in 2050 under a carbon price than it does today, according to Treasury modelling for the multi-party climate policy committee. ... See all stories on this topic »

The Age

ASSUMING he isn't brought back for a third round and this is actually it, Ross Garnaut has finished his marathon four-year stint reviewing climate change policy with a forceful mix of arguments: some old, some new, some borrowed and adapted. ...
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Recent days have seen frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull make a damaging critique on television of the opposition's climate policy, a leak of a conversation between Mr Abbott and Joe Hockey over tax policy, criticism by Coalition climate sceptics of the ...
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TONY Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull have closed ranks to limit the damage caused by Mr Turnbull's indictment of the opposition's climate policy. After he and Mr Turnbull spoke early yesterday, Mr Abbott described Mr Turnbull's Wednesday night comments on ...
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Photo: Andrew Meares THE Gillard government's new top economic adviser has entered the political fray over a carbon tax, playing down cost-of-living concerns and taking a swipe at Tony Abbott's climate policy. Seeking to allay fears that a carbon tax ... See all stories on this topic »

The Age

ON LISTENING to and observing the debate surrounding climate change and climate policy in Australia over the past few weeks, anyone would think that we were on the verge of some kind of civil war. On radio, television and in our press, ...
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Dick Warburton is helping the Coalition collect business support for its direct action climate policy, which has so far failed to win backing from economists as an effective way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. He said most of the Business Council of ...
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