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Are we helping others increase global emissions?

By Geoff Carmody - posted Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Unless the world's major emitters cut their emissions, doing nothing is a rational policy across all views about human global warming.

Why cut our emissions if we just encourage others to do the opposite, increasing emissions globally?

Makes no sense to me.

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About the Author

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?