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Climate Change: humanity’s biggest externality
Gabriel Chenkov-Shaw explores an economically driven solution to climate change: intervention to fundamentally change the incentives of big polluters.
No Man is an Island – How Climate Change is Aggravating Economic Inequality
Carbon emissions have global, but uneven, consequences. Sarsha Crawley explores how climate change is exacerbating multidimensional economic inequality.
Hot Air Rising: The erratic state of affairs within Australian climate change politics
Climate change policy in Australia has fluctuated over the past ten years, perhaps at the behest of continuity required to successfully address the problem. Zecheng Han explores why this is the case.
The Inconvenient truths behind Renewable Energy Sources
Worrying environmental events have incited governments to assume responsibility over emissions and to increase investment in renewable energy. However, the transition to renewables is far but smooth. Siddharth explores.
Who’s going to pay for climate change?
Julia Pham explores how the social discount rate is used to determine the costs of preventing climate change, and the resulting moral and ethical dilemmas that arise.
Arthur Cecil Pigou: externalities and the answer to climate change
Prices contain an immeasurable amount of information. They are the sum of an entire population’s private preferences and an indispensable signal to achieve an efficient allocation of resources. But what about the information they don’t include? Taylor Nugent examines the work of Author Pigou on externalities, and concludes that his eponymous tax is the best way to make prices reflect the costs of climate change.
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The race to two degrees: COP21 primer
Priyanka Banerjee gives an overview of the oncoming climate change talks in Paris and what COP21 can mean for Australia.
Abbott fiddles while coal burns
The problems posed by climate change require mature debate. Tony Abbott refuses to give it, writes Leon Obrenov.
The turbulent airline industry
Airlines are struggling to stay in the business. Why does the airline industry find it so hard to make a profit?
The challenge of insignificance for climate change scientists
At what point does rational debate turn irrational? Josh Brown examines how individual incentives are distorting rational arguments on climate change policy.
First auction, first success?
Missed Australia’s first emission reductions auction? Unsure of what it means? Kim Liu looks at the price and quantity outcomes of our leading climate policy program.