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.
Publications
Inquiry into Clean Energy Amendments
Submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Recalculating the Impact of the Carbon Tax: How changes to global carbon accounting standards will wipe our household over-compensation
By the end of this year household carbon tax ‘over-compensation' will be wiped out by changes to the global carbon accounting rules used to calculate the environmental impact of greenhouse gases. The changes will: Increase Australia's...
Did the global temperature trend change at the end of the 1990s?
Twentieth Century Sources of Methane in the Atmosphere
Galaxy poll: Cost of climate change survey
Prepared for the Institute of Public Affairs - May, 2012
Resource carbon emissions: How much do Australians wish to pay? How much are they paying?
On July 1 the government is implementing new carbon tax measures. The Institute of Public Affairs commissioned a Galaxy survey to find out how much Australians would pay to avoid the costs of what the government claims will be human induced...
Carbon tax unconstitutional: legal opinion
‘The carbon tax is unconstitutional according to a legal opinion from expert, Bryan Pape, commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs and reported in the Australian Financial Review this morning', said Tim Wilson, Climate Change Policy...
Short form opinion
In the Matter of the Clean Energy Act 2011 (Cth.) and the Australian Constitution.
Only one-third of Australians believe humans are to blame for global warming
Only a third of Australians think the world is warming and humans are to blame, according to a Galaxy poll commissioned by the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. The Galaxy poll asked 1,051 Australians on the weekend of 23-25...
Submission to inquiry into the Mineral Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills
Submission to inquiry into the Mineral Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills
