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
Combet caught out on carbon
Published in the Australian Monday 15 August, 2011
Think tank warned over climate information requests
Published in The Age, 16/08/11
A chilling climate on FOI
Published in The Australian, 17/08/11
FOI Documents Show Combet Misled Australians on Carbon Tax
'Greg Combet, the Minister for Climate Change has misled Australians about China's price on carbon according to documents released to the Institute of Public Affairs under Freedom of Information', said Director of Climate Change Policy, Tim...
IPA Launches second climate change advertisement
The IPA's second climate change advertisement from The Australian on Friday 5 August.
IPA launches climate advertising
The free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, has launched the first of a series of advertisements to highlight its climate change research. A full page advertisement appeared in The Australian today. It assesses a claim by the...
Climate change advertisement
The IPA's climate change advertisement from the Australian on Tuesday 2 August
Tim Flannery: climate prophet
'I wake up in the morning thinking there are lots of times when people have woken up feeling like this, like the Old Testament prophets.' That's Tim Flannery, Julia Gillard's hand-picked Climate Change Commissioner, or preacher-in-chief, if you...
Carbon tax to push electricity prices up by 150 dollars next year
‘The Gillard government's carbon tax will push up the price of electricity for households by $150 in its first year alone', said Director of Climate Change Policy, Tim Wilson, today from Parliament House. ‘In her press conference...
Productivity commission shows Australia has high taxes on carbon emissions
PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION SHOWS AUSTRALIA HAS HIGH TAXES ON CARBON EMISSIONS "Australia is incurring more costs and bringing about a more CO2 abatement than any country outside of Europe. This is the result of the study into carbon emission policies...
