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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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...
Gillard's first clue on carbon stance a worry
Under its climate change proposals, Canberra proposed an energy tax, rising to more than $18 billion a year - $900 per person. Lower carbon dioxide...
Carbon tax dated
Canberra's decision to shelve its greenhouse tax, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), was a dramatic political backdown. Ironically,...
Media Release: Two-thirds of Australians doubtful on global warming
Two-thirds of Australians now doubt the scientific consensus on global warming according to a new poll conducted by Galaxy Research for the...
Climate change backflip could pay dividends
Having portrayed a global treaty to reduce carbon emissions as essential and inevitable, the Rudd Government has abruptly changed tack and now sees...
Is there a plan B for the ETS?
F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time,...
Green policies: too much of not enough
It can't be a coincidence: the worst examples of bad policy making and implementation in the last few years have been green policies. The Federal...
Chance to combat climate change through policy has come and gone
On the ABC1's 7.30 Report last week, Barack Obama reiterated his belief that putting a price on carbon was the best way to reduce greenhouse gas...
Climate law: what's in it for the US?
After the passage of his sweeping healthcare reforms, Barack Obama is turning his sights to combating global warming. This month, the US Senate is...
Climate change requiem
Under pressure from local election defeats, the French Government has abandoned its plans to introduce a carbon tax, having suddenly discovered it...
