Failure to plan thoroughly for the climate trends of coming decades would be an act not just of intergenerational theft but of intergenerational recklessness.
Australia government must reconsider climate approach
Government remains neither conservative nor Liberal. It underplays risk, undermines market mechanisms and distorts policy analysis. It is time to reconsider.
Carbon laws are working, like them or not
Australia’s carbon laws are about to turn 2 – pollution is down, the economy is up, scare campaigns exposed, wind and solar grow
Budget shenanigans highlight risks of Emissions Reduction Fund
The Coalition’s unfolding fiscal drama highlights risk of putting Australia’s emissions reductions at the whim of the annual budget arm-wrestle.
The IPCC and Australia’s emissions targets
The new IPCC report due on Sunday will put pressure on the Abbott government to justify its limited climate change policy action.
Climate talks find agreement, pressure rises on Abbott
Australia has damaged its reputation as a responsible climate player and as a credible global citizen.
Three key measures to help Abbott avoid a carbon crunch
The Pollute-O-Meter is back. How do the policies of the presumed government-in-waiting stack up to their commitments on carbon and climate?
We own fossil fuel lobby? We should own clean economy too
Who funds the high carbon economic activity that has plagued our politics and is endangering our climate and future prosperity? You and I.
Take a breather on the carbon bonfire
Attacks on the RET are cynical and costly carbon protectionism, and will mean households and other businesses pay higher energy costs than they need to.