Jennifer Marohasy » Carbon Trading

THE Wall Street Journal states: “The public hates it.” The (UK) Telegraph calls the tax: “one of the most unsuccessful in history” and points out that it is “unique in that it generated...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2014/07/most-unsuccessful-tax-in-history-marita-noon-on-repeal-of-the-carbon-tax/

A new alliance between Al Gore and Clive Palmer is likely to result in the repeal of the carbon tax, but the big winner is probably the global warming industry, not the ordinary Australian. Indee...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2014/06/al-gores-hypocrisy-exposed-dennis-jensen-jo-nova/

JUSTIFICATION for Australia’s carbon-pricing scheme assumes there will be a global carbon pricing system with our ETS a part of it. This assumption is probably wrong. It is unlikely a global ca...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2013/08/why-the-ets-will-not-succeed-peter-lang/

THERE  is an entire cannon of western philosophical thought, dating back to John Locke and John Stuart Mills, that explains why the prosperity of a nation is not so much linked to its natural we...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2013/08/carbon-credit-market-is-neither-free-nor-worth-anything/

THE Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Greg Hunt MP, was in Brisbane yesterday explaining the Coalition’s plan to tackle climate change post September 14, 2013. You can download the manifesto ...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2013/04/greg-hunts-carbon-buy-back-scheme-for-australia/

CARBON is the key building block for all life on earth. We are made of it, we eat it and we breathe it. To label carbon dioxide, which is a component of the natural carbon cycle, a pollutant as t...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2013/04/why-europe-has-a-carbon-market/

ON July 1, Australia not only got a carbon tax, but also a tax on refrigerants based on their global warming potential. Refrigerants are used to keep things cool, for example, food in our refrige...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2012/07/carbon-taxing-refrigerants-but-not-carbon-dioxide/

In Australia we now have a carbon tax, to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. But I bet if there really was an across the board reduction in carbon emissions by industry the government would be c...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2012/07/really-reducing-emissions-would-mean-recession/

Tomorrow, July 1, Australia gets the carbon tax the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, promised she would never introduce.   The nation’s 500 “biggest polluters” will start paying a $23-a-ton...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2012/06/what-the-carbon-tax-and-ets-will-really-cost-peter-lang/

Dear Supporters, In the next few days we will be launching a poster campaign to coincide with the introduction of the Carbon TAX. The campaign will consist of distributing this poster http://www....

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2012/06/act-locally-to-axe-the-tax/