Carbon tax
Anthony Albanese’s latest plan to subsidise foreign coal and gas companies is just absurd | Richard Dennis
Fossil fuel subsidies are a stupid idea. We aren’t so much decarbonising our economy as turbocharging its carbon intensity
Richard Denniss
13, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM
Big polluters given almost €100bn in free carbon permits by EU
Free allowances ‘in direct contradiction with the polluter pays principle’, WWF report says
Damian Carrington Environment editor
29, Nov, 2022 @1:00 PM
Enormous emissions gap between top 1% and poorest, study highlights
‘Polluting elite’ responsible for same amount of carbon dioxide in a year as poorest 10% are in more than two decades, data shows
Fiona Harvey
01, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM
Albanese meets Solomons PM – as it happened
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Cait Kelly and Natasha May
06, Oct, 2022 @8:09 AM
Australia’s carbon credit scheme could take years to recover from price plunge, analysts say
Report finds intervention by energy minister Angus Taylor led to ‘mountain of oversupply’ and many projects will now be paused
Anne Davies, Ben Butler and Peter Hannam
24, Mar, 2022 @1:48 AM
EU carbon permit prices crash after Russian invasion of Ukraine
Slump effectively lowers cost of emitting carbon for the most polluting companies
Tom Ambrose
02, Mar, 2022 @5:01 PM
What is the ‘safeguard mechanism’ and how is it supposed to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions?
Intended as a pollution cutting ‘stick’, government is now ‘trying to paint it orange and pretend it’s a carrot’, says one expert
Peter Hannam
17, Nov, 2021 @4:39 AM
The shipping industry faces a climate crisis reckoning – will it decarbonize?
World’s largest shipping company Maersk plans to power new container ships on carbon-neutral methanol but very little of it is produced today
Maddie Stone
12, Nov, 2021 @1:00 PM
We need radical policies to reach net zero. Here's a fairer way to do them | Polly Toynbee
A personal carbon allowance was first proposed a decade ago – but leaders haven’t been brave enough to take up this idea, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
02, Nov, 2021 @7:00 AM
‘Overwhelming’ backing for strong climate action, UK study shows
Biggest ever analysis shows public backs carbon tax on industry, flight levies and grants for heat pumps
Damian Carrington Environment editor
12, Oct, 2021 @5:38 AM
Tory MPs back Sunak after prime minister’s threat to sack him
Chancellor popular with fiscally conservative wing of party amid tensions over idea of carbon tax
Rowena Mason Deputy political editor
09, Aug, 2021 @7:17 PM
Offsets being used in Colombia to dodge carbon taxes – report
Fossil fuel levy can be avoided by buying carbon offsets that may have no benefit for climate
Patrick Greenfield
30, Jun, 2021 @5:00 AM
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