Climate policy made 'down under': The political economy of a new carbon market in Australia

Title: Climate policy made 'down under': The political economy of a new carbon market in Australia
Creator: Aydos, Elena; Rudolph, Sven
Relation: Climate and Carbon Law Review Vol. 12, Issue 4, p. 304-315
Relation: https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2018/4/6
Publisher: Lexxion
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: In the early 2000s fierce battles were fought over carbon pricing in Australian politics. And while the Paris Agreement might facilitate a new push in this direction, stakeholders still struggle with the political legacy of these early debates. Against this background, we evaluate Australia's former carbon pricing initiatives based on ambitious sustainability criteria. Referring to 'Public Choice' arguments, we then use empirical data from a 2017 interview study to analyse the reasons for the eventual political failure of the schemes and for predicting the chances of a new carbon market in Australia. We mainly argue that the former Australian pricing schemes were overly ambitious, and while political barriers remain high, an already visible growing openness in the business community, combined with a possible change in government after the 2019 general election, might lead to a gradual implementation of a new scheme after 2019.
Subject: carbon pricing; Paris Agreement; Australia
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1406789
Identifier: uon:35657
Identifier: ISSN:1864-9904
Language: eng
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