#UQ Economics Professor Ian A. MacKenzie says whether to introduce a major fossil fuel tax is a conversation Australia needs have.
🔗https://t.co/frH2feI8tG
@EconIanMacK via @ConversationAU
As other nations race to restructure their economies in line with a low-carbon future, Australia risks being left behind.
An economy-shaping tax on fossil fuels is a conversation we must have, writes @EconIanMacK (@UQ_news).
https://t.co/Q1BJw2HzDo
New #JEEM paper by Lana Friesen, Ian A. MacKenzie (@EconIanMacK), & Mai Phuong Nguyen on how contestable property rights affects the Coase theorm.
Read more here: https://t.co/H7QlfeKWny
Congrats to all @uniaus Aust Award for Uni Teaching Citation winners listed in CMM this am (w 🙏🏼to CMM for doing so!)
@aauniteachers video of all awards here https://t.co/s82ui3xJpe
Citations for outstanding contributions to student learning https://t.co/NcLfpLltmF
#UAConf2023
I wrote a thing about the thing I wrote about rooftop solar, subsidies and spillovers: subsidies make people suspicious of the motives of their neighbours who go solar, making them less likely to buy green power. https://t.co/3QM15rtZgf
Want to joint our team and become a Ph.D student researching the economics of Australian climate policy? Scholarships are available! https://t.co/50u65PUvf8 @EAERE_envecon@AereOrg#UQ@AARES_Inc@AARES_QLD
The Labor government's signature climate legislation has passed both houses of parliament setting the foundation for Australia's emissions reduction targets.
Story via @domgiannini_ https://t.co/zZzZbgx9Nl
#AusPol
Liz Truss will be Britain’s next prime minister — the nation’s fourth in seven years. And she’s inheriting a nation falling apart at the seams. https://t.co/sh1MtyauDs
Climate bills in Australia + the US promise progress without carbon taxes.
Carbon taxes are seen as politically impossible, so leaders turn to subsidies for clean energy + transport – but these taxes remain better options, write @econianmack (@UQ_news). https://t.co/PE1Zkh0iw7