carbon pollution reduction scheme

In previous posts we’ve discussed the urgent need to create an effective and positive narrative to motivate action on climate change. Achieving such a narrative isn’t about facts – facts don’t matter – because we are a species driven by narrative, by a compelling story. Last summer Climate One convened three experts in human behavior,...[read more]

Energy policy development over the last decade has shown one thing for certain, governments the world over are persistent in their desire to alter the energy mix and/or at least begin to manage emissions. How can businesses best respond to this trend and what role should they play?[read more]

The Australian reports that Tony Abbott's scuttling of the CPRS means that investment in new power stations is stalled until some clairty emerges about carbon pricing - Power station plans put on hold by ETS freeze. UP to $2 billion of investment in new power stations will be put on hold as a result of Kevin Rudd's decision to delay his...[read more]

Crikey has a look at the shelving of the government's proposed CPRS - so after a few years of Labour government we haven't really made any progress on global warming (a messed up insulation installation scheme and slightly improved MRET aside) - CPRS into the deep freeze. The government today wheeled its dreadful CPRS into the political...[read more]

Australia’s cap and trade system, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), is being reintroduced into Parliament this week, after two rejections in 2009 (see here and here). However, it is almost certain that it will fail again, following decreasing public support for the policy after the Copenhagen conference and Tony Abbott’s...[read more]

Published by On Line Opinion, Australia's leading e-journal of social and political debate. By Leigh Ewbank, Breakthrough Fellow Recently, the Australian Greens challenged the Rudd Government to "break the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) deadlock" by implementing an interim price on carbon. The move no doubt stunned many with...[read more]

As an Australian living in London and subject to the market forces that an emissions trading system brings to the economy, I watch with great interest as Australia wrestles with the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), or “cap-and-trade” by another name (or emissions trading by another). Since Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister just...[read more]