Ecology and economics share a common root: the Greek word oikos, meaning “home” or “a place to live”. Oikos is an Australian environmental policy blog focussing on the connections between the environment and the economy.
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If the tax structure from early last century prevailed today, we would have to raise $40 billion from excise and $230 billion from tariffs to meet today's revenue demand. At that rate the excise on a schooner of beer would be around 7 times what it is...
Apparently today is Blog Action Day for Climate Change and I thought I'd throw it open to my wonderful blog readers.
I find myself alternatively optimistic and despairing on climate change. How bad is it going to be? Are we going to do what it takes...
I saw Maclolm Turnbull interviewed the other night saying that he supported emissions trading and reminding people that emissions trading was indeed government policy under the previous Howard Liberal government when Turnbull was Environment Minister...
As I've talked about before (The great permit give-away), one of the big debates in emissions trading is whether to auction most of the permits or give them away free to industry. Under the Australian CPRS it looks like more and more will be given...
Strange weather in Australia recently: record high winter temperatures, bushfires in spring, hail the size of cricket balls overnight and we woke this morning to an apocalyptic orange glow in Sydney.
Meanwhile our Prime Minister is at the UN for...
