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Copenhagen promised to bring everyone into the tent in a post-2012 successor treaty to Kyoto. Instead, it showed divides between countries were unbridgeable. Globally, the actions and policy approach of China and the US are what really count. By David Byers
How financial governance not fiscal expansionism remains the key to growth and stability in a world of global financial integration.--Notes for CEDA Board of Governors Meeting, 20th Oct, 2009. By Dr Michael Porter. [Research and Policy article]
Governance and the stimulus package were at the centre of CEDA’s Board of Governors biannual meeting in October. In a wide-ranging discussion, the governors also exchanged views on Australia's relationship with China, health, climate policy, and community attitudes towards nuclear power. [ACE article - Full content is only available to CEDA members]
Australia's energy sector is on the verge of some big changes. The expanded Renewable Energy Target (RET), in conjunction with other climate change policy mechanisms likely to be introduced, (whether in the form of Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) or some other policy mechanism), will begin a transition to a greater mix of renewable energy and a progressive restructuring of Australia's energy supply system. [ACE article - Full content is only available to CEDA members]
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy caused Telstra shareholders much concern in September when he gave the telco the 'structurally separate or else' ultimatum. By Michael Porter.
The Government’s proposed NBN reforms won’t correct fundamental structural problems within Australia’s broadband and telecommunications industry, according to Dr Michael Porter, Director of CEDA Research. [Research and Policy article]
“Successful tax reform is not just about increasing GDP or revenue, or making the system easier to understand, or more sustainable, or fairer, or better able to assist governments to address various social problems. It is concerned with all of these things. Successful tax reform means improving the wellbeing of the Australian people”. By Amy Lee-Hopkins. [ACE article - Full content is only available to CEDA members]
Defined by a severe undersupply in access to housing, the Australian property market has been and will be further impacted by the current economic climate. The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Minister for Housing, opened CEDA's Housing Forum, discussing the Federal Government's housing agenda. By Petra Schweidler. [ACE article - Full content is only available to CEDA members]
At the opening conference industry stakeholders and government representatives assessed the current state of the health system, discussed solutions to pressing challenges and options for a long term sustainable health system. By Petra Schweidler. [ACE article - Full content is only available to CEDA members]
CEDA's latest report aims to advance the development of sensible and measured policy responses to the risk of climate change. A carbon tax may not be the policy of choice now, but the ETS bubble may burst and the world may - in the not too distant future - be looking for a viable "Plan B" to replace the problematic cap-and-trade system. [Research and Policy article - Full content is only available to CEDA members]