Australia

Some related reading from The Conversation that I liked when I was doing exploratory background reading for some related uni work a few months back:

• Let’s tax carbon: Ross Garnaut on why the time is right for a second shot at carbon pricing (Oct 2024)
• Researchers analysed 1,500 climate policies to find what works. These are the lessons for Australia (Aug 2024)
• Australia now has a $70 ‘shadow price’ on carbon emissions. Here’s why we won’t see a real price any time soon (Apr 2024)

I thought it was particularly funny how the first of these articles is saying that it is/was a good time to try for a carbon tax again and that the alternatives are essentially inadequate, while the second one says:

[...] Importantly, they found most emissions reduction relied on a mix of policies. The results point to a way forward for Australia, where an economy-wide carbon price is currently politically impossible.

I don't think I made use of that juxtaposition in my assignment but now I can use it to write a comment which four people will read :'D

Whether the author of article 1 is right (it's close to a silver bullet policy and is politically feasible) or whether the author of article 2 is right (it's not both not a silver bullet and politically impossible) I don't know.