Climate Change
Food & Environment / Climate Change
The Institute of Public Affairs examines climate change and environmental policy from an evidence based perspective. The IPA also prioritizes making rational assessments of the economics and practicalities of carbon dioxide reduction proposals. Knee-jerk government policies in response to activist campaigning can have far-reaching economic implications while achieving no environmental benefit.
News
Climate change almost invisible in the election campaign
Having been feted as the Great Moral Challenge and been the key factor behind the demise of Malcolm Turnbull, climate change policies are nearly...
Clunky approach to carbon reduction policies
Labor's wasteful and tokenistic "cash for clunkers" subsidy to scrap old cars is one of the few carbon emission reduction policy announcements this...
Free trade infected by 'green protectionism'
Unions and industry that want to roll back the progress of free trade increasingly are using environmental causes as a disguise. For years...
Climate of emissions trading cools
We all know both Labor and the Coalition have jettisoned plans to implement an emissions trading scheme to tame climate change. But Australia is...
Renewable energy comes at exorbitant price
Coal-powered electricity generators and abundant coal supplies bring Victoria the world's cheapest electricity. This will change, partly because of...
Climate change: healthy debate not a health debate
Want the earth to be cooler? Unleash the psychologists. At least, that's the argument presented by one of the keynote speakers at the 2010...
Publications
A letter from Kelvin Thomson MP
A letter from Kelvin Thomson MP on the politics of climate change.
An open letter to all parliamentarians
A carbon emissions trading scheme as proposed by the federal government has enormous economic and social consequences. This was acknowledged by Penny Wong, the Minister for Climate Change who last year said that responding to global warming...
ETS backdown welcomed, Climate Change Department should be scrapped
The Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the Rudd Government's back down on the Emissions Trading Scheme. "The Rudd Government's decision to ‘suspend' the legislation is clearly a prelude to abandoning the proposal", said John Roskam,...
