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Voters disagree on importance of climate change, universally dislike current energy and environment policy.
We’ve been here before. In fact we’ve been going round in circles on climate policy for decades, while the temperature (of the debate, as well as the planet) climbs ever higher.
Environmental taxes encourage consumers to conserve energy or switch to less carbon-intensive fuels.
Labor has ditched its reliance on a single economy-wide climate policy, in favour of a range of different measures that will all help drive down emissions. But some crucial issues remain unaddressed.
States are folding the social and economic costs of burning fossil fuels into their electricity policies, giving utilities a financial incentive to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Scott Morrison’s pledge to spend billions on a Climate Solutions Fund is a thinly veiled rehash of the widely criticised Emissions Reduction Fund, which had much of its work undone by fine print.
It’s often more effective, cheaper and less controversial than other efforts to confront climate change.
These technologies could turn into a powerful tool for fighting global warming, and they have the potential to address historical climate injustices.
There are ways to reduce the risk of protests like France’s yellow vests movement.
Canada’s top-down approach to designing its climate policy has failed. It needs to find ways to engage with individuals.
An American coal company is suing the Canadian government over Alberta’s plan to combat climate change.
An economist breaks down results on two key issues at the COP24 climate change meeting: getting all nations to use the same measuring and reporting rules, and linking policies across borders.
Trump and Bolsonaro may be against any action on climate change, but they are not the norm.
Ontario’s new environment plan scores poorly on conservative ethos.
For decades, economists have pondered the ‘social cost of carbon’ - the price worth paying to avoid the future costs of greenhouse emissions. But a new analysis suggests this quest is impossibly complex.
Drivers buy less gas when filling the tank burns holes in their wallets.
Multiple studies have found the overall impact on labor markets to be minor, even if some workers will need new career paths.
The gilets jaunes protests show we need to fight inequality for a just transition to a low-carbon society.
George H.W. Bush, who has passed away aged 94, was US president when the world began grasping the climate issue in earnest. But he was pivotal in setting the US on a course of blocking climate action.
Top contributors
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Director of Workforce Development, Clean Energy Council, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Adjunct professor, Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor of Economics, The University of Queensland
