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The race to two degrees: COP21 primer

The race to two degrees: COP21 primer

In just a few days, Paris will be hosting more than 80 world leaders for the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference, better known as COP21. Back in Australia, you may have heard a news story every now and then about our emissions targets and about “the lead up to Paris”

First auction, first success?

First auction, first success?

Last Thursday concluded the first auction of the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF), the centrepiece of their Direct Action climate policy. It awarded 144 projects from 43 participants to deliver 47 million tonnes of carbon-equivalent abatement over a ten-year period at an average price of $13.95 (Clean Energy

Taxing emissions or trading them? A question for Turnbull

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Taxing emissions or trading them? A question for Turnbull

Discussing the merits and demerits of a tax on carbon dioxide emissions or an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) might seem rather passé. However, the debates could soon become fashionable if the Liberal Party of Australia changes its leader to Malcolm Turnbull. If events unfold in a way which will pop

The Environmental Kuznets Curve: fact or fiction?

Many economics students will be familiar with the Kuznets curve. It describes the relationship between income per capita and inequality first hypothesised by Nobel laureate economist Simon Kuznets. The theory postulates that as an economy develops and incomes begin to rise so to will inequality until a threshold level of

Carbon cost: reflecting upon the repeal

Carbon cost: reflecting upon the repeal

The carbon tax. Briefly here; now it is gone. On Thursday, with a motley crew of new crossbenchers finally pulled into line, Tony Abbott achieved the act that has fundamentally driven his rise from an outlying frontbencher to Prime Minister over the past five years. The repeal of Labor’s