Emissions Trading Scheme

Former top bureaucrats have spoken out about what they believe to be a failure by Australian politicians and their respective governments to implement and maintain adequate policies to address the growing climate crisis.

New Zealand’s long-awaited zero carbon bill will create sweeping changes to the management of emissions, setting a global benchmark with ambitious reduction targets for all major greenhouse gases.

The architect of the former Labor government’s carbon pricing scheme looks to the future, where increasingly it is not Australia who leads. Climate change won’t go away, so what can and should Australia do next?