Queensland is being sacrificed to Australia’s and the world’s unwillingness to take global warming seriously.
Ross Garnaut
Garnaut on climate science: it’s a ‘pretty sad’ story
The Garnaut Climate Change Review delivered in 2008 was a massive document — 630 pages — and possibly too much to digest, comment on and report on in one go. Professor Ross Garnaut clearly thinks Australia has been a slow learner, so he plans to deliver his 2010 update in installments, writes Giles Parkinson.
Australia’s renewable roadblocks: Clean Energy Council reports
The clean energy industry in Australia enjoyed one of its most successful years in 2010, but it’s not entirely clear that it has that much to celebrate, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
Garnaut attacks both parties for lack of leadership
Last night, Ross Garnaut delivered a speech on good government as a part of the University of Melbourne Hamer Oration lecture series.
China likely to introduce carbon price before Australia
The Australian policy to not reintroduce CPRS legislation until 2013 leaves the country in danger of being left behind, with China being far more progressive on climate action, writes Peter Wood.
Mungo MacCallum: Greens and climate change … welcome back to the real world
So with a great (self-trumpeted) fanfare, the Greens have returned to the climate change debate — and about bloody time.
Garnaut: Thumbs up for the Obama Accord
Copenhagen was a complete fiasco. However, the ‘Obama Accord’ that came out of it is a step in the right direction and probably the best we could have hoped for, writes Ross Garnaut.
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.
Colebatch: Stop tooting your own horn Ken Henry, the economy ain’t that good
If the Australian economy passed the GFC test as Ken Henry claims, then we should expect government guarantees whenever financial markets cut off funds to Aussie lenders. This isn’t something to be proud of, writes Tim Colebatch.
Australia’s golden age extends to 2050
Don’t hide away your tuxedo yet, because Treasury Chief Ken Henry is declaring that Australia’s economic prosperity can stretch to at least 2050, as long as we use the population boom to our advantage.
Australia: good at being poor, crap at being rich
Post GFC Australia is, well, pretty much the same as pre GFC Australia. The resources boom is still bubbling away, our relations with Asia continue to be crucial. Now, how will we cope with the prosperity?
Garnaut: Climate change threatens Mabo’s legacy
Faced with rising sea waters, the people of Indigenous activist Eddie Mabo’s island, Mer, have had to move to higher ground. Man-made climate change could literally wash away everything he fought for, says Ross Garnaut.
If not Emissions Trading, then what?
When the Emissions Trading Scheme is eventually passed, it won’t be worth a damn thanks to all the political wrangling. So the real issue is — what’s the next step?
Garnaut: The ETS cannot be further distorted
A year since he released his final Climate Change Review, Ross Garnaut reflects on developments and disasters in the ongoing climate change challenge.
Garnaut who? Heads in sand over climate change
With the release of Malcolm Turnbull’s new carbon emissions plan, it becomes obvious that neither party wants to take decisive action on climate change, writes Tim Colebatch.
Garnaut to have “another crack” at ETS
Ross Garnaut says he will “have another crack” at making a better ETS, but is still unsure whether it’s best to pass the current one for the time being.
As global crisis deepens, Australia’s emissions rise
The global crisis isn’t cutting greenhouse emissions in Australia. They’re growing, writes Bernard Keane.
A few points on what would make a decent CPRS
While most discussion about voluntary abatement has focused on households, the big sleeper is all the businesses whose business models will be destroyed under the present CPRS, writes Alan Pears.
The bushfires, the pain, the climate change
We were warned. Over and over again scientists told us of the increased danger of bushfires fueled by severe, protracted drought and record-breaking heat waves, writes Liz Conor.
Mungo: On Kevin Rudd’s new ‘balance’ catch-cry
The essential problem with balance is it assumes that the arguments of both sides are of equal value, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Clive Hamilton v. Paul Kelly: climate death match
Paul Kelly has seamlessly shifted from chief apologist for the Howard Government to the Rudd Government’s climate change approach, writes Clive Hamilton.
Middle ground government: Poznan and the ETS White Paper
The question shouldn’t be whether Australia leads the rest of the world, but how hard we beg for action, writes Bernard Keane.
Crikey Clarifier: Greening the economy
Why is what’s good for Finland bad for us? We asked
Remember the 2020 summit? Here’s what happened next …
Many of the ideas that emerged from the summit were valuable, even if at times the whole affair looked like a left-wing party, write Bernard Keane and Eleri Harris.
