Crikey media wrap: Despite Tony Abbott declaring he will kill the carbon price if elected, PM Julia Gillard will today get Australia’s first significant policy to cut carbon emissions passed through parliament.
Climate change policy
Pearse: is this carbon price a big step sideways?
It’s unclear yet whether this deal will reduce Australia’s contribution to climate change, writes Guy Pearse, Research Fellow at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland.
climate change Parkinson: Garnaut’s inconvenient truths
The first three instalments of Professor Ross Garnaut’s update to his Climate Change Review have been a welcome boost to the government’s ability to press its case for a carbon price, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.
Come in Spinner: Gillard’s carbon price campaign outguns Rudd’s
If Kevin Rudd had approached his mining tax, and the emissions trading system, in the way Julia Gillard is approaching the carbon tax, he might still be Prime Minister.
Welcome Minister, it’s time to roll up your sleeves
The final week of critical climate negotiations in Cancun is upon us. Australia’s Minister for climate change, Greg Combet, arrived on the weekend and got straight to work. Philip Ireland reports from Mexico.
Time for Aussie pride in carbon reduction
As day three of the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico kicks off, Anna Rose takes a stroll through a community garden in Syria, looking at local initiatives for global problems. Yet Australia lags behind with the false “the world isn’t acting, Australia shouldn’t lead” climate change line.
Gillard: Why we need a carbon price
PM Julia Gillard pens a column on why the carbon price reform is such a grand idea. Putting a price on carbon will end this awkward uncertainty sending energy prices up and is clear decisive action on climate change, claims Gillard.
Gittens: Copenhagen wasn’t a failure
Like Australia, the US has just abandoned plans for an emissions trading scheme. But not all hope is lost for climate change policy, with the pledges made in Copenhagen far stronger than the media has represented, writes Ross Gittins.
Time for a change in climate policy
The government and climate change advocates need to stop obsessing over carbon pricing and get behind an investment-centred climate policy, like a Snowy Mountains style scheme, says Leigh Ewbank.
A hopeful tale for climate change policy
Take a look around the world and you’ll find that 32 countries now have emissions trading schemes — including the UK and the EU. Even China has committed to putting a price on carbon next year. Let’s talk about the good news, writes Ellen Sandell.
Let the carbon games begin
Like Noah and his Ark, Julia Gillard has made an effort to have two of almost everything on the committee that will guide Australia’s near-term efforts on climate change, and prepare the economy for the carbon challenges of the future, writes Giles Parkinson.
A (climate) change in the air
Crikey media wrap: It’s the first day back at school for all the enthusiastic parliamentary members, even though the class hasn’t voted on a deputy speaker yet. But Gillard turned up with a new climate change policy tucked into her lunch box.
Clean energy moves ahead amid climate policy carnage
Passage of the enhanced 20% renewable energy target is one hard fought victory for climate change policy amongst the wreckage littering the corridors of parliament house in Canberra, says Rob Grant.
Climate change policy set to steam up Canberra
One of the biggest questions for arising out of the ALP’s day of deliverance by the two country independents is this: what does it mean for climate change and clean energy policies?
Why it’s great that the ETS got the chop
The most frustrating argument in support of the CPRS was this notion that, even though it was acknowledged as appalling policy, “something is better than nothing”. Sounds nice, but it’s a logical fallacy, writes Tim Hollo.
Rudd’s greatest challenge: surviving his ETS somersault
Rather than selling the ETS to the Australian public, Rudd was busy playing wedge politics with Malcolm Turnbull. Now his decision to dump it will cost him dearly in both electoral and larger political terms, writes Rodney Tiffen.
Science won’t change the sceptics
Climate change policy by governments has very little to do with the actual science behind climate change and a lot of do with political manoeuvring and what pollies want to achieve. Science isn’t the same as politics, writes Daniel Sarewitz.
Turnbull: Abbott’s climate plan is bullsh*t and he knows it
In a spot of eloquent white-anting from the back bench, Malcolm Turnbull takes to his blog to slag off Tony Abbott and his climate change policy plans. The Opposition leader has lost his integrity and the Liberals can’t be trusted, says Turnbull.
Oops we did it again: future apologies from world leaders
Greenpeace have put together a clever ad campaign to greet Copenhagen climate chance conference delegates, with photoshopped world leaders in 2020 apologising for missing the chance to act on climate change. And yes, Obama does age quite well.
Ross Garnaut: on Copenhagen, Tony Abbott and rentseeking
At a speech in Washington last night Professor Ross Garnaut ranged widely over the issues surrounding the global response to climate change. Despite everything, he remains optimistic.
The real CPRS choice: do what it takes or lock in failure
The real choice is whether we do what it takes to stop the climate crisis or whether we lock in failure by sandbagging the old polluting economy, writes Greens Senator Christine Milne.
Blogwatch: the Garnaut interim report
This doesn’t have to mean bad news for business … Um, this is bigger than Garnaut suggests … Rudd pulls the rug out from Garnaut.
Garnaut moves beyond symbolism
I think Garnaut’s interim report is an extremely important document, being grounded not just in symbolism, but reality, writes Dr Hugh Saddler.
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Garnaut and greenhouse caps … saying sorry … the Liberals/Nationals merger … Carey’s waning star … media apologetics for Suharto …
Garnaut loses the plot
Ross Garnaut, who will report in June to the Rudd Government on its emissions trading system, is a former trade economist now spending a lot of time thinking about how to prevent powerful industries undermining the Government’s plans, writes Clive Hamilton.
