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It’s far easier to see how the stock market is doing than it is to find out the global price of carbon. That has to change.
Carbon taxes targeting luxury emissions are more popular than those which make necessities more expensive.
A new study shows what it would mean for Europe and China, and why the US might not be too excited about the idea.
Climate bills in Australia and the US promise progress without carbon taxes or markets. Here’s why.
Renewed interest in nuclear energy will go nowhere unless we talk about carbon pricing. As energy minister Chris Bowen points out, nuclear is extremely expensive.
The war in Ukraine threatens to turn back the clock on Russia’s climate progress, with some calling on the country to leave the Paris Agreement and roll back environmental regulations.
The UK’s largest wood-burning power plant is to trial bioenergy with carbon capture and storage – but will it do enough to cut emissions?
Canada has emerged as a leader among its G20 peers in terms of green fiscal stimulus spending and policies.
Simple economic modelling shows the mining industry would benefit from a carbon tax.
The urgency of the climate crisis was overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic for a while, but the South African government displayed a renewed climate focus over the past year.
Human behaviors shift. Policies change. New technology arrives and evolves. All those changes and more are hard to predict, and they affect tomorrow’s costs.
After being ousted as Conservative leader, Erin O'Toole warned the country faced a dire moment of division. At the moment, however, it’s the party he attempted to lead that’s bitterly divided.
Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.
President Joe Biden needed a Plan B, one that Congress could approve, to take to the UN climate conference. But his new strategy is unlikely to meet the country’s emissions reduction goals for 2030.
What research shows is important to win support for bold decarbonisation measures.
Australia’s top economists say Australia can’t “free-ride”, allowing others to cut emissions while it gets the benefits.
If shipping were a country, it would rank between Japan and Germany as the sixth-largest contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions.
Conditional commitments are promises to raise emissions reduction efforts, depending on what others do. It could be a big incentive for Australia.
In setting new tax on the carbon emissions of goods being imported into the bloc, there are two potential disasters for EU to avoid.
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Director, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Climate and Environmental Law, University of Sydney
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Senior Visiting Fellow in Energy Systems, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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