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Policy & Planning

NZ creates $4.5bn climate response fund, using money raised from polluters
New Zealand creates new $4.5 billion climate resilience fund, to fund renewables and adaptation projects, using money collected from major emitters.
Michael Mazengarb

Dec 15, 2021

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Policy & Planning

Coalition’s reward to Australia’s big polluters: Just don’t call it an ETS
Morrison government to establish a new mechanism to reward big emitters. It looks and smells like an emissions trading scheme, even if they won’t say it.
Michael Mazengarb

May 19, 2020

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Policy & Planning

NZ unveils climate plan to strengthen price on carbon, adoption of EVs
NZ unveils package of climate change policies, including a strengthened emissions trading scheme, and independent advisor for policies and targets.
Michael Mazengarb

Aug 5, 2019

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Making climate change policies fit their own domain
There is a widely held narrative for climate policy that runs something like this. The costs of damage due to greenhouse gas emissions are not reflected in economic decisions. This needs to be corrected by imposing a price on carbon, using the power of markets to incentivise efficient emissions reduction across diverse sources. Carbon pricing needs to […]
Adam Whitmore

Nov 27, 2014

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Direct Action could deliver a useful outcome: carbon trading
Greg Hunt says he doesn’t want an emissions trading scheme, Clive Palmer says he does. But Hunt’s Direct Action plan might ultimately take us there anyway.
Alan Pears

Nov 4, 2014

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China heads for price on carbon; energy market overhaul is next
Economic reforms such as a national carbon price could usher in dramatic changes on China’s energy landscape.
Frank Jotzo

Sep 22, 2014

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Stopgap carbon policies: far from perfect, but better than nothing
What might Australia’s climate policy end up looking like, and could Palmer’s ETS – even with a zero initial price on emissions – act as a stopgap?
Michael Rupert & Kenneth Baldwin & Michael Smith

Aug 27, 2014

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Despite its demise, the carbon price cut emissions
Carbon emissions in Australia’s national electricity market would have been 11 to 17 million tonnes higher if Australia had not introduced a carbon price.
Frank Jotzo

Jul 17, 2014

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Energy-smart appliances cut Australian power bills by billions
The value of energy saved in Australia last year alone was around A$3.2 billion. Of this, some A$2.7 billion was saved by households.
Alan Pears

Apr 23, 2014

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