Nourishing the environmental debate

Category Archives: Climate Change Committee

Is an ETS automatically more ambitious than a tax?

November 9, 2010 – 9:49 pm

I confess to being a little taken aback by the swing back towards campaigning for immediate adoption of a cap-and-trade emissions scheme that appears to be gaining ground in sections of the environment movement. This, in my opinion, is a misguided strategy that risks stifling progress at a critical moment instead of opening the space [...]

By Tim Hollo | Also posted in Carbon Price, Climate Change Policy, Emissions Trading Scheme, Federal Politics, Greens | Comments (16)

Want to stop climate change? Move beyond carbon pricing

October 7, 2010 – 8:46 am

Leigh Ewbank writes: It’s time for the government and climate change advocates to stop obsessing over carbon pricing and get behind an investment-centred climate policy. Polling released last week, as PM Gillard announced the members of her government’s Carbon Pricing Climate Change Committee, showed that just 37% of Australians think it is very important to [...]

By Crikey | Also posted in Carbon Price | Comments (139)