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Topic: Emissions Trading Scheme
Kevin Rudd has declared he has 'terminated the carbon tax' by moving to an ETS a year early, with a $3.8 billion price tag. Here's how he'll pay for his promise.

Carbonised: Rudd terminates the tax that never was

Environment

Jul 16, 2013

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Tony Abbott's comments about an ETS reflect his antipathy to economics and distrust of markets, say <em>Crikey</em> writers <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b>.

Invisible credibility: Abbott’s contempt for economics exposed

Economy

Jul 16, 2013

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Scrapping the carbon tax might push household costs higher rather than lower. That and other problems await the Labor Party as it seeks to wedge Tony Abbott with emissions trading.

Five reasons why Rudd’s ETS move should make us wince

Environment

Jul 15, 2013

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Environmentalists cheered when China announced it would finally put a price on carbon. But as usual, the price is far too low to have any meaningful impact on the country's vast emissions.

At last, China gets on board carbon trading

Asia-Pacific

Jun 19, 2013

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With questions hanging over the Coalition's climate policy, it's becoming obvious the business community wants the carbon price to stay. Here's four reasons why ...

Why business wants the carbon price to stay

Companies

Apr 26, 2013

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Barack Obama championed a cap-and-trade scheme on climate change yesterday. With a hostile Congress, he'll struggle to achieve it. Still it leaves the Tea Party-esque Tony Abbott behind on climate policy.

Obama’s new global warming push leaves Abbott in the cold

Environment

Feb 14, 2013

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Australia has hitched itself to Europe's climate change wagon yesterday in a move which will have far-reaching -- and uncertain -- consequences for the domestic carbon scheme.

Euro vision: Australia’s new carbon regime explained

Environment

Aug 28, 2012

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The decision to dump the floor price on an emissions trading scheme would ignore the long-term need for investment in renewable energy and actually raise costs for business overall, experts say.

What happens if there’s no carbon bottom?

Environment

Jul 05, 2012

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As politicians take the razor to state and federal “complementary” climate policies, <b>Fergus Green</b> at <a href="http://www.inside.org.au"><em>Insdide Story</em></a> examines the case for these policies with the federal carbon price looming

Not so fast to the green scheme graveyard

Australia

May 01, 2012

Of all the equity and commodity prices that plunged last week in the global market carnage, the most dramatic falls came in the European and international carbon price.

Parkinson: why the carbon crash is good

Australia

Aug 09, 2011

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Tony Abbott has begun his holiday in Europe but one wonders why he chose to visit a region that has had a price on carbon since 2005 and now has the largest multi-national emissions trading scheme in the world, writes <b>Ellen Sandell</b>.

Abbott’s European holiday might make him hot and bothered

Environment

Aug 05, 2011

There is good reason why the government did not release the details of its carbon pricing package before the weekend.

Parkinson: carbon chaos in Canberra

Environment

Jul 08, 2011

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