Pricing Carbon in Australia: Contestation, the State and Market Failure

by Rebecca Pearse

In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy. A decade on, the experiment in carbon trading is failing. Carbon market schemes have been plagued by problems and resistance to carbon pricing has come from the political Left and Right. In the Australian case, a national emissions trading scheme (ETS) was dismantled after a long, bitter public debate. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138230588
• ISBN13: 9781138230583
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"