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Cutting greenhouse gas emissions must cost more than 'business as usual'

By Geoff Carmody - posted Thursday, 19 September 2024

Actually, they're really huge gas fans. Not gas as a useful source of base-load, or 'peaker', energy, though both increasingly are sorely needed in Australia right now.

No. They preach a different form of gas.

'Gaslighting'.

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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?