Any chance Australia will ever see the use of first best climate and energy policy instruments?

Crawford School of Public Policy | Arndt-Corden Department of Economics

Event details

ACDE Seminar

Date & time

Tuesday 27 August 2019
2.00pm–3.30pm

Venue

Griffin Room, Level 1, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, The ANU

Speaker

Brian Fisher, BAEconomics

Contacts

Ross McLeod, Seminar Convener

Recent modelling of the alternative approaches to climate policy proposed by the current federal coalition government and the labour opposition using BAEconomics’ CGE model suggest, as expected, that the use of market-based instruments such as an emissions trading scheme substantially reduces the cost of achieving a given emissions target. This result is not new. However, today it appears that there is an even lower probability that market-based instruments will be applied by governments to solve the climate problem. Instead, it appears that governments will favour regulation and special sectoral arrangements, thus imposing higher costs on society than are necessary to solve the problem.

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