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Climateworks Centre works within the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, and was co-founded in 2009 by the Myer Foundation and Monash University. It develops independent, evidence-based solutions to assist the transition to net zero emissions for Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

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It’s time Australian politicians were guided by national climate change legislation. Shutterstock

May 15, 2019

The UK has a national climate change act – why don’t we?

Anna Skarbek, Monash University; Anna Malos, Climateworks Centre; Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford, and Matthew Carl Ives, University of Oxford

Nation-wide climate legislation would not only help reduce our carbon emissions, but also boost economic growth.

Issues such as how best to smooth the transition to renewable energy still need much more policy certainty. AAP Image/Lukas Coch

March 3, 2019

We can be a carbon-neutral nation by 2050, if we just get on with it

Anna Skarbek, Monash University and Anna Malos, Climateworks Centre

Australia’s current greenhouse emissions target is not ambitious enough, and we’re not on track to hit even this modest goal. But the potential is there to hit zero emissions by mid-century if we try.

Australia has just two decades to put itself on the path to zero greenhouse emissions. AAP Image/Dave Hunt

October 8, 2018

Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change

Iain Stewart, Climateworks Centre

The world needs to be carbon-neutral by mid-century to give ourselves a chance of holding global warming to 1.5C. With around 1% of the global carbon budget, Australia needs to rapidly do its share.

A worker inspects solar panels at a solar farm in China. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

September 21, 2017

Developing countries can prosper without increasing emissions

Meg Argyriou, Climateworks Centre

What do China, India, South Africa and Mexico have in common? They all reduced the carbon intensity of their economies without sacrificing economic growth. Other developing nations can do the same.

Fuel efficiency standards would reduce carbon emissions and pain at the pump. yewenyi/Flickr

February 25, 2014

Three more ways to cut carbon emissions and save money, whatever the policy

Anna Skarbek, Climateworks Centre

The federal government has begun the process of unwinding the carbon price, moving to cancel further auctions of carbon permits, ahead of its hoped-for repeal of all carbon-pricing legislation after the…

Complementary measures in the tax package make it easier for businesses to reduce emissions. Theophilos/Flickr

August 9, 2011

Carbon tax package could let Australia cut emissions by 25% by 2020

Anna Skarbek, Climateworks Centre

With all the focus on the carbon tax, it is not surprising many people are unaware that the government’s carbon pricing package incorporated a suite of other measures to reduce emissions. ClimateWorks…

All talk, no action: government dithering is expensive. AAP

April 14, 2011

Failing to act on climate change costs us billions

Anna Skarbek, Climateworks Centre

Whether we’re talking about investing in renewable energy, introducing an emissions trading scheme or putting a price on carbon, the climate change discussion has been invariably focused on the cost to…