Thursday
Mar292012
State Climate Schemes Are Still Worthwhile under a Carbon Price
MCJ Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 15:15
In justifying their recent abandonment of state-based climate schemes, the governments of Queensland and Victoria have both claimed that the schemes will be redundant under the federal emissions trading scheme (ETS) that begins in July. Yet this justification is only a smokescreen, as a carbon price can well exist with other environmental and climate schemes.