Keep big business from carbon policy: Garnaut

Climate change adviser Ross Garnaut wants three independent bodies set up to oversee Labor's proposed carbon tax to ensure big business doesn't end up running the show.

professor_garnaut_climate_170311_B_AAP_1699303307


In a paper to be released on Tuesday, Professor Garnaut has recommended a carbon bank be established to administer the tax and subsequent emissions trading scheme which he says should replace it by 2015.

An independent committee would advise the government on national targets, caps and expanding coverage of the scheme.

A third independent agency which could be part of the existing Productivity Commission would determine how emissions-intensive trade-exposed industries are assisted.

"These are circumstances in which it is easy, indeed natural, for vested interests to capture policy and, for the ultimate reasons, for policy to be forgotten," the report says, according to The West Australian newspaper.

Independent MP Rob Oakeshott said the government's target of sorting out the details for the introduction of a carbon tax was hopeful.

"They want to clean this up by the end of June," Mr Oakeshott told ABC television on Monday.

"We will be doing incredibly well to achieve that.

"That is an ambitious target."

The government's timetable of setting down the details for its proposed tax by the end of June is
"incredibly ambitious", a member of its multi-party climate change committee (MPCCC) says.

The news comes after a report showing that carbon-dioxide emissions hit a record high last year, the International Energy Agency said on Monday, dimming the prospects of limiting the global temperature increase to two degrees Celsius.




Share

2 min read

Published

Updated

Source: AAP


Share this with family and friends


Get SBS News daily and direct to your Inbox

Sign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox.

By subscribing, you agree to SBS’s terms of service and privacy policy including receiving email updates from SBS.

Download our apps
SBS News
SBS Audio
SBS On Demand

Listen to our podcasts
An overview of the day's top stories from SBS News
Interviews and feature reports from SBS News
Your daily ten minute finance and business news wrap with SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves.
A daily five minute news wrap for English learners and people with disability
Get the latest with our News podcasts on your favourite podcast apps.

Watch on SBS
SBS World News

SBS World News

Take a global view with Australia's most comprehensive world news service
Watch the latest news videos from Australia and across the world