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.
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Carbon trading will fail because property rights cannot exist for gases
Economically sustainable markets are built on the back of secure property rights, but because secure property rights cannot exist for greenhouse...
Carbon tax an ever-increasing tariff
From July 1 next year, Australia is going to discover a carbon tax and trade barriers have the same disastrous economic impact. Last Monday, Trade...
Carbon policy sacrifices nation's wealth
When Adam Smith famously pointed out that "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation", he had in mind the foolishness of its political leaders. The...
Inside dirt on clean energy schemes: they don't work
If Julie Gillard isn't paying attention to what's happening in Washington DC right now, she should be. The first major scandal of the Obama...
Energy costs defy logic
In response to my Opinion article on September 8 on the costs of the carbon tax, the British High Commissioner (Letters, September 14) rejects the...
The case against the carbon tax
In a leaked briefing, UK Prime Minister David Cameron's energy adviser warned him that British carbon abatement policies would raise electricity...
Handouts favour the few
Craig Thomson isn't Tirath Khemlani - but he may as well be. A government clinging to office by a seat engulfed in a scandal involving trade unions...
Letter to the editor - carbon pricing
THE defence by the Climate Institute's John Connor (``Many ways to calculate China's carbon price'', Commentary, 17/8) of the government-funded...
A chilling climate on FOI
It's not vexatious, it's exercising our democratic rights WHEN it comes to the business of government, too much information is barely enough. So we...
In reality China's carbon tax is far lower than ours
Tomorrow the federal parliament may debate the one-year anniversary of Julia Gillard's haunting broken promise that "there will be no carbon tax...
