- Title
- Treibhausgas-emissionshandel in Australien: Perspektiven einer wiederbelebung
- Creator
- Rudolph, Sven; Aydos, Elena; Lerch, Achim
- Relation
- Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht Vol. 41, p. 533-553
- Publisher
- Deutscher Fachverlag
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Since the early 2000s, fierce political battles have been fought in Australia for greenhouse gas emissions trading (GHG), which resulted in a temporary use of the instrument from 2012 to 2014, but ultimately ended in favor of the political opponents of the instrument and the end of the program Australian Carbon Pricing Mechanism (CPM). Increasingly, however, the overwhelming majority of the informed public is looking for a reliable long-term solution that guarantees the efficient achievement of the Australian climate protection goal. Both the Paris Agreement (UN 2016) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), as well as the merits of the EH and its increasing international expansion, at all levels of governance, could help revive this idea in Australia as well. However, Australia's enormous per capita emissions and the economic importance of Coal - Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal - and the fact that the wounds of previous political struggles have by no means healed completely, raise the question: Is there really a second chance for one sustainable GHG-EH? In this paper we answer this question by presenting the previous Australian EH initiatives and evaluating them in terms of sustainability criteria. Against the background of the New Political Economy (NPÖ), we then analyze the reasons for their political failure on the basis of a qualitative interview study from the spring of 2017 and analyze the prospects of reviving them - if necessary in a modified form. For this purpose, in February and March 2017, a total of 17 semi-structured interviews with climate policy experts and representatives of political groups (parties, interest groups, administration, etc.) were then evaluated using a qualitative content analysis in three steps. In the sense of triangulation of data, documents such as position papers and speech manuscripts as well as available scientific literature were evaluated. We show that earlier EH initiatives in Australia had many benefits and despite the persistent partisan feuds, there are certainly political opportunities for a modified revival of the EH, but these are likely to take effect in the wake of a change of government.
- Subject
- climate policy; Australia; carbon pricing; Paris Agreement
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1406545
- Identifier
- uon:35643
- Identifier
- ISSN:0931-0983
- Language
- DE
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