Thomas Perrett reports on the new methods used by big energy associations to influence the media and those in power
Climate Change
Big energy companies are piling money into increasingly inefficient oil and gas investments, reports Thomas Perrett
Stuart Spray reports on the inspiring work being done to restore the UK's seas and coastlines and the bad news threatening to undermine this
Samir Jeraj reports on how funding cuts, increasing costs, ageing facilities and climate change are all playing a role in rising numbers of deaths by drowning
pxfuel, CC BY Warwick Smith, University of Melbourne Before the recession we were on a collision course with environmental disaster. The recovery provides a rare opportunity to do things differently; to rebuild a better economy that can support living standards … Continue reading
Eight in ten of Australia’s leading economists back action to cut Australia’s carbon emissions to net-zero.
Almost nine in ten want it done by a carbon tax or a carbon price – mechanisms that were explicitly rejected at the 2013 election.
The panel of 58 top Australian economists selected by the Economic Society of Australia wants the carbon price restored to the public agenda even though it was rejected seven years ago, some saying Australia’s goods and services tax was rebuffed in 1993 and then restored to the public agenda seven years later.
Among those surveyed are former heads of government departments and agencies, former International Monetary Fund and OECD officials and a former and current member of the Reserve Bank board.
The government’s decision to target net-zero emissions by 2050 will leave each Australian nearly A$2,000 better off by then compared to no Australian action.
That’s what we were told in a six-point summary of the government’s economic modelling released at a press conference on Thursday October 26, days before the prime minister left for the Glasgow climate talks.
Lekha Chakraborty (Professor, NIPFP, and Member of Governing Board, International Institute of Public Finance, Munich) Climate change is about risks and uncertainty. How well the monetary policy stance can incorporate such risks and uncertainties is questioned by many economists. There is a broad consensus among economists that fiscal policy is capable of dealing with the […]
As I struggle with some newly discovered health problems, my attention tends to drift to different things. These are two.
The Missing Average and the two Australias.
This is a recent temperature anomaly map produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, reproduced today by the ABC, with Kate Doyle’s customarily excellent comments:
