Kohler: How the collapsing US$ will damage CopenhagenFor Australia, an international emissions trading scheme in Copenhagen may prove an economic disaster, thanks to a dropping US dollar a and rising Aussie dollar. It’s happening around the world and it’s making a Copenhagen deal unlikely.
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Copenhagen is coming, lower your expectations
With the Copenhagen climate change conference just five weeks away and national leaders and scientists already disagreeing, it looks like a global plan for climate change and emissions targets is unlikely, writes David Spratt.
Revealed: The high cost of the CPRS
Yesterday’s MYEFO figures reveal in clear terms just what a policy disaster the current version of the CPRS is. It also gives the lie to the absurd line from ETS opponents that the CPRS is a giant tax.
Reform the food industry — for the sake of the planet
The food industry’s solution of more choice increases profits, but does nothing for obesity. The more on offer, the more we buy, the more we waist and the more we waste, writes Dr Rosemary Stanton.
How much cash will the states get under the CPRS? Zero.
Unfortunately for those of us who ever rely on the public health, education or transport systems, the CPRS is estimated to cost state budgets more than $2.1 billion in 2013, writes executive director of the Australia Institute, Dr Richard Denniss.
Poll: ETS too soft on big-business
This week’s Essential Report comes in with a two party preferred vote of 59-41 — a 1-point gain to the ALP — and also finds one-third of Australians think the government’s emissions trading scheme goes too far in favouring big business.
Crikey Says: Calm down, no rush on CPRS
Apparently the CPRS isn’t that urgent. Otherwise, why would debate keep getting delayed by both the Coalition and the government?
The $20b CPRS amendments with no budget impact
The Opposition believes its proposed CPRS amendments will have little or no fiscal impact, despite a suggested significant increase in compensation for trade-exposed polluters and the removal of coal emissions from the scheme.
Rudd might as well flick the dissolution switch
The Government is now in such a strong position, they may figure they’ll get their CPRS through after a double dissolution with minimal risk. Why bother negotiating with an Opposition so patently out of favour with voters?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Climate change, CPRS and politics
Climate change and the ETS were the biggest topics for Crikey readers today, with readers lamenting the politicisation of an global environmental issue.
Joyce fights back: I’m not crazy — the ETS is mad!
After Virginia Trioli made the international sign of crazy at Barnaby Joyce, Joyce has come out swinging, explaining why the ETS is more insane than him. Why? Because it will raise milkshake prices.
Crikey Says: The parallel universe of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull’s finally got the green light from the Coalition to negotiate on the ETS. Too bad all the party politics means the key issue gets ignored.
Turnbull’s execution was all in the mind
Yesterday’s special coalition party room meeting about whether or not Malcolm Turnbull could get the Coalition to agree to make ETS amendments wasn’t so much a damp squib as sopping wet.
Coalition CPRS plan will cost $20 billion
The sheer cost of the Coalition’s CPRS demands — $1.6b in the first full year and over $20b between now and 2020 — will be the biggest problem as Penny Wong and Ian Macfarlane sit down to negotiate this afternoon.
The CPRS: what the Liberals want
So Malcolm Turnbull has convinced the Coalition to push amendments on the Government’s CPRS. But what is it that the Liberals want?
Taylor: This is just round one
Malcolm Turnbull is about to face a big dilemma, says Lenore Taylor: the Government is unlikely to agree to all of his CPRS amendments, and his own party is unlikely to accept any compromise.
Davidson: Remember when this debate was actually about climate change?
The Federal Government and Opposition have both polluted the emissions trading debate with infighting and political power plays, says Kenneth Davidson. Neither party is offering a clear or realistic vision to combat global warming.
Grattan: Turnbull’s won the battle, but not the war
Malcolm Turnbull may have won the first fight with his party over emissions trading, but there are two much bigger battles ahead, says Michelle Grattan: negotiating with the government, then trying to get that deal through the party room. This war is far from over.
Coalition to deal on Rudd’s CPRS
Malcolm Turnbull has finally worn the Coalition backbench down on emissions trading. Bernard Keane looks at the amendments he’ll be bringing to the negotiating table.
Pollies make terrible gardeners: let the economy grow
John Howard may have wasted the Aussie economy boom, but is Kevin Rudd now squandering the bust? This is Australia’s chance to stop the government funding the economy, writes Henry Ergas.
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What’s an ETS? That’s when you turn your AC off, right?
Just when you think that all anyone is talking about is climate change, ETS, CPRS or Copenhagen, North Coast Voices reminds us that those are complicated terms.
Not even fear mongering can save the Opposition
Many in the Opposition are pushing an anti-ETS line, but it’s hard to run a scare campaign when you’re not in power. A time will come when voters don’t view Kevin Rudd as Father Christmas, but not for awhile, writes Peter Brent.
Swan’s Frontier moment shows just what Turnbull is up against
Nothing is left to chance with the Rudd government. No detail is too small that it can’t be deployed in the remorseless bombardment of the Opposition. Like Wayne Swan picking holes in their CPRS proposal.
Wong boring everyone to tears with details of flawed CPRS
Penny Wong is a climate sceptic. She may use the term to describe those who ignore the overwhelming science about the causes of climate change, yet she ignores those same scientists when it comes to actual policy, writes Dr Richard Denniss.
