Taxing consumption that contributes to climate change hits the poor the hardest, while overlooking the huge profits tied to greenhouse gas emissions.
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Gillard’s legacy - a mixed one on policy - was more than just the misogyny speech.
Policies that encourage the use of low-carbon technology like heat pumps can help motivate residents to decarbonize their homes.
It’s far easier to see how the stock market is doing than it is to find out the global price of carbon. That has to change.
Climate bills in Australia and the US promise progress without carbon taxes or markets. Here’s why.
Renewed interest in nuclear energy will go nowhere unless we talk about carbon pricing. As energy minister Chris Bowen points out, nuclear is extremely expensive.
The 2022 election looms as the most important for Ontario’s environment in the modern era, and its impact may echo for generations to come.
The recently released Emissions Reductions Plan aims to put Canada on track to reduce emissions by up to 45 per cent from 2005 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050. It will do neither.
Emissions trading systems are supposed to speed up decarbonisation, but they are not yet capable of doing so in practice.
The Australian Labor Party has options on emissions reduction targets, but it is still running scared from the best mechanism to achieve them.
The prime minister road-tested an avalanche of slogans on Wednesday, some of them clearly false.
We already have most technologies Australia needs to make the clean energy transition. What’s missing is a plan to deploy them at huge scale.
Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.
A carbon tariff is a carbon tax applied to exports from countries such as Australian that don’t have one. Europe is planning to impose one.
Australia’s top economists say Australia can’t “free-ride”, allowing others to cut emissions while it gets the benefits.
While the outcome of the 2021 federal election offered little in the way of change, it may have left Canada better positioned to make progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Disclosure requirements work, forcing companies to own up to their customers and investors.
Energy and climate policies aren’t always headed in the same direction, but if they work together they can tackle two of the biggest challenges of our time.
Canadians are faced with an unwanted election that’s placed climate progress at unnecessary risk.
Despite sending Victorians into their fourth lockdown, the Andrews government retains a healthy lead in polling and is favoured to win the next election.
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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