12 November 2020
Labor Would Keep Us Handcuffed To The Paris Climate Deal
Opposition legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus’s comment yesterday that Joel Fitzgibbon’s opinions on climate change represented the views of “only a handful” of people within the Labor Party is precisely what someone representing the bayside suburbs of Melbourne would say. And Anthony Albanese’s recommitment to Labor’s net-zero emissions by 2050 mandate is exactly the type of policy someone from inner-city
8 November 2019
Australia Must Withdraw From Paris Agreement
President Trump is keeping a promise he made during the 2016 election campaign to get the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Australia must do the same. In a speech to the Lowy Institute in October, Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned of the dangers of “negative” globalism; which “coercively seeks to impose a mandate from an often ill-defined
20 March 2019
Eighty-Nine Billion New Reasons To Quit The Paris Agreement
Momentum continues to build for Australia to exit the Paris Climate Agreement. New economic modelling prepared by Managing Director of BAEconomics and former executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Dr Brian Fisher, was released on Tuesday. It shows that the emission reduction obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement will cost Australia at least $89 billion
27 February 2019
Independent Analysis Of The Costs Of The Paris Climate Agreement Support Previous IPA Research
Recent analysis prepared by Brian Fisher, the former head of the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics, estimates that Australia’s commitment to meeting the Paris Climate Agreement emission reduction obligations will impose $70 billion in cumulative economic losses by 2030 and a 2 per cent reduction to real wage growth. Under the Paris Climate Agreement Australia must reduce its
30 August 2018
Australia Must Withdraw From Paris
“The Morrison Government must put Australians ahead of European bureaucrats and withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement”, said Daniel Wild, Research Fellow at the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. In a speech today (30 August 2018) at a small-business summit in Sydney, the Minister for Energy, Angus Taylor, outlined the government’s plans for the energy sector.
24 August 2018
The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 74 with John Roskam and Daniel Wild
This week James and Pete talk leadership challenges, last week’s podcast breaking the IPA website, the latest on corporate tax cuts and all the papers in the US making a ‘brave stand’ against Trump. We talk to IPA Executive Director John Roskam about the launch and success of the IPA’s latest podcast The Great Books of Literature and why it doesn’t
20 August 2018
Exit Paris; Stop Subsidies Now
“Removing the Paris Climate Agreement emissions reduction target from the National Energy Guarantee is a welcome development, but the government should immediately withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and end all subsidies to weather-dependent energy generation,” said Daniel Wild, Research Fellow with the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Today, the government announced that it would not
