Climate Change: Interim Report from Ross Garnaut

The Business Council of Australia’s Director of Policy Maria Tarrant said that while concerns about international trading were valid, so were concerns about price spikes. “There is a question mark about the very early stages of implementing a trading scheme. What are the mechanisms you have to respond to unanticipated consequences or excessive responses?”

From ‘Emissions Report Shocks Power Sector’ by John Breusch, The Australian Financial Review, 22 February 2008, p. 11.

Business Council of Australia policy analyst Maria Tarrant welcomed references to the need for a staged response to climate change in Australia.

From ‘Garnaut Report Backs Renewables and Clean Coal, but not Generators’ by Glenda Korporaal, The Australian, 22 February 2008, p. 19.

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