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Climate Change Authority prepares harsh assessment of Morrison’s policy failure
Climate Change Authority to issue new advice to government on climate policies, citing falling technology costs and rising emissions as reasons to do something.
Michael Mazengarb

Jul 11, 2019

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Policy & Planning

ERF review fails to douse doubts over Coalition key climate policy
CCA review of Coalition’s Emissions Reduction Fund fuels concerns the scheme is an expensive, inefficient and risky way to cut carbon.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 11, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Coalition sets climate parameters, as two more quit key advisory body
Coalition publishes climate policy discussion paper amid CCA resignations, claims of right-wing, anti-science bias.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 24, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Hamilton quits CCA over Coalition’s “unconscionable” push to coal
Climate Change Authority member Clive Hamilton quits over Coalition’s “unconscionable” and “perverse” clean coal push.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 13, 2017

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Policy & Planning

CCA dissenters slam “$100 turkey claims” as Coalition defends climate goals
Dissenting CCA members call for “proper” emissions target, coal closure, as Frydenberg reads from Abbott songbook.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 5, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Climate Change Authority’s gamble on political pragmatism
Years of controversy over carbon pricing has both major parties scared of any policy seen to raise electricity prices. The CCA seems to have taken this political situation as a starting point.
Frank Jotzo

Sep 2, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Tamed CCA gives Coalition breathing space, but no path to Paris targets
A reconstituted Climate Change Authority has delivered its long-awaited, long-delayed report on Australia’s climate policy options. And it looks remarkably like something that the Coalition could have written itself, and is too little, too late.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 1, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Climate Change Authority cops out – just when we need it most
Gutted by Malclm Turnbull, its latest report a cop out, the Climate Change Authority has become yet another impediment to climate action in Australia.
Christine Milne

Sep 1, 2016

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Australia must quit coal by 2035 to meet emissions targets, says Climate Institute
Climate Institute says only way for Australia to meet Paris climate commitments is to replace coal power with renewables by 2035.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 16, 2016

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Hunt stacks Climate Change Authority with Coalition advisors and ex MPs
Coalition tried to kill the independent Climate Change Authority and failed. So, a day after complaining that the CCA board was “partisan”, it has decided to stack the board with former Coalition politicians and advisors of its much-criticised Direct Action policy.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 8, 2015

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Ignored by government, shrunk by resignations – where now for Climate Change Authority?
Bernie Fraser’s resignation as chairman of Australia’s Climate Change Authority has left many wondering what is left of it and what its future might be.
Clive Hamilton

Sep 14, 2015

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Bernie Fraser quits Climate Change Authority after difficulties with Hunt
The chairman of the Climate Change Authority, Bernie Fraser, has quit – apparently after a long period of bad relations with Environment Minister Greg Hunt.
Michelle Grattan

Sep 9, 2015

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