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CSIRO bid to gag emissions trading scheme policy attack
Nicola Berkovic
The
Australian
Monday, Nov 2nd, 2009
THE nation's peak science agency has tried to
gag the publication of a paper by one of its senior environmental
economists attacking the Rudd government's climate change policies.
The paper, by the CSIRO's Clive Spash, argues the Carbon Pollution
Reduction Scheme is an ineffective way to cut emissions, and
instead direct legislation or a tax on carbon is needed.
The paper was accepted for publication by the journal New Political
Economy after being internationally peer-reviewed.
But Dr Spash told the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological
Economics conference that the CSIRO had since June tried to
block its publication.
In the paper, Dr Spash argues the economic theory underpinning
emissions trading schemes is "far removed" from the
reality of permit markets. "While carbon trading and offset
schemes seem set to spread, they so far appear ineffective in
terms of actually reducing GHGs (greenhouse gases)," he
says. "Despite this apparent failure, ETS remain politically
popular amongst the industrialised polluters.
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