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By Geoff Carmody - posted Thursday, 14 July 2022

What's the answer? Surely we should know this up-front for a rational policy approach?

A rational energy policy review would start with evidence, not ideology, as follows:

Let known technologies drive transparently determined, evidence-based, cost, reliability and emissions outcomes.

Use these outcomes to decide the best cost, reliability and emissions policy 'mix', not the other way around.

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Geoff Carmody was a director of Geoff Carmody & Associates, a former co-founder of Access Economics, and before that was a senior officer in the Commonwealth Treasury. He died on October 27, 2024. He favoured a national consumption-based climate policy, preferably using a carbon tax to put a price on carbon. He has prepared papers entitled Effective climate change policy: the seven Cs. Paper #1: Some design principles for evaluating greenhouse gas abatement policies. Paper #2: Implementing design principles for effective climate change policy. Paper #3: ETS or carbon tax?