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 cops' destined to join mega-regulators club
The powers which the Gillard Government intends to give the Clean Energy Regulator are unquestionably illiberal. The climate body will be able to...
Peak productivity, living standards set for carbon tax sacrifice
Campaigning by politicians through the power generation regions of the Latrobe Valley and the Hunter have focussed on the effects of a carbon tax...
Slim chance of global carbon market post Kyoto
Irrespective of whether Julia Gillard succeeds in selling her carbon tax plan to the public, eight months before the next federal election the...
Too many economists in the carbon kitchen
There's a lot of interesting material in the survey of Australian economists released last week. But the results are not much use as a guide for...
Suffocating the economy one tax at a time
If implemented, Julia Gillard's proposed carbon price starting at $23 per tonne will push us closer to economic stagnation. If the Government...
Boon for the carbonocrats
The Gillard government's carbon tax package is a triumph for fiscal churn and bureaucracy over wealth creation and, for that matter, the...
Government's carbon skeleton
If there are any undisclosed details left for tomorrow's carbon tax announcement, taxpayers can be sure Australia's dirtiest secret, that the...
A policy failure on three fronts ... and counting
The details of the Government's carbon tax have been released. Now the debate will move onto dissection of the gory details. For all the talk about...
The science is not settled
Ian Chubb says the climate change debate is not about politics but science. Would that it were so. But it is not that simple, for there really are...
Failure is an Orphan
In any endurance sport, punters are unlikely to put money on a prime minister who swans around the nation in the back of a limousine over an...
