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Title: After 20 years of creating Australian climate policy : was the proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme a change in direction?
Related: Australasian journal of environmental management, Vol. 19, No. 1, (2012), p.21-34
DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2011.646751
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date: 2012
Author/Creator: Firsova, A
Author/Creator: Strezov, V
Author/Creator: Taplin, R
Description: This article presents an analysis of past and present Australian climate polices, starting with the Hawke Labor government (1983-1991) and finishing with the unsuccessful implementation of an emissions trading scheme (ETS), the Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) by the Labor government under Rudd and, subsequently, Gillard (2007-current). The study reveals that Australia's position was climate proactive only under the Hawke government. Subsequent climate change policy retreat (1996-2007) resulted in a range of 'noregrets' and symbolic actions taken domestically and internationally. Arguably, this was due to strong political influence stemming from the fossil fuel industry and coal producers. Climate change was a key Labor policy promoted in the 2007 federal election and is attributed to Labor gaining power. One of the government's first actions was ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, but attempts to legislate a proposed CPRS were unsuccessful. An analysis of the proposed CPRS demonstrates that 97 per cent of the funds potentially generated from the scheme would have doubtfully served any carbon pollution reduction. The CPRS proposal offered a continuation of previous federal governments' lack of action on climate policy, and favoured the interests of the fossil fuel industry.
Description: 14 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Australian government
Subject Keyword: Emissions trading scheme
Subject Keyword: Kyoto Protocol
Subject Keyword: No-regrets
Subject Keyword: Symbolic politics
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Graduate School of the Environment

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/176059
Identifier: ISSN:1448-6563
Identifier: mq-rm-2011007237
Identifier: mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-84859189218
Language: eng
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