Carbon tax

Releasing the long-awaited National Electric Vehicle Strategy, Labor tries to push start Australia’s delayed electric vehicle odyssey.

A new Climate Council report argues a lack of climate policy exposes Australia to potential border tariffs from nations with schemes to adjust for carbon taxes. 

The European Union, Japan and South Korea have already committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. China’s net-zero target is 2060. With the US joining the fold, the implications for Australia could be huge.

Dr Martin Parkinson wants to make it clear for the record that he was never formally sacked as the secretary of the Treasury in 2013, despite being told his services were no longer required shortly after Tony Abbott became prime minister.

Between the developing world paradox, and the intractable political failure in Australia, the problem of climate change has limited solutions. Former government economist on climate change, Jon Stanford, writes that we could still look to a regulatory approach to achieve a realistic outcome in Paris.

The architect of the former Labor government’s carbon pricing scheme looks to the future, where increasingly it is not Australia who leads. Climate change won’t go away, so what can and should Australia do next?