CPD fellow Mark Connelly reviews the Rudd Government’s performance on residential energy conservation: Under the recommendations of the Garnaut Climate Change Review, residential electricity prices are projected to rise by 21 to 31 per cent by 2020. The review recommends mitigation strategies for low-income households, but there is little discussion of helping Australians change their energy use behaviour to reduce consumption. If Australians can be assisted and motivated to reduce their household energy consumption, they may be able to mitigate the projected increase in their electricity bill, while contributing to the overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Gavan McDonell untangles the history and politics of Australia’s National Energy Market.

In advance of the Garnaut Review’s final report, Iain McGill and Regina Betz argue that the introduction of a national Emissions Trading Scheme should see all permits auctioned rather than given away to industry.

Andrew Reeson and Karel Nolles examine how experimental economics can inform carbon market design.

Jane Castle argues that changes to the way Australia's energy market works will make it easier to green our economy.

Australia can outpace the Kyoto process without having to go it alone, writes John Perkins.

The Emissions Trading Task Group is a creature of another age - an age before we knew just how seriously our activities were jeapardising the climate. Former senior oil & coal industry executive Ian Dunlop argues that both sides of Australian politics need to wake up and smell the climate science.

The threat of climate change and the sale of Qantas have sat cheek-by-jowl on the business pages in recent weeks - but no one has spotted the link between the two. Former head of the AGO Experts Group on Emissions Trading Ian Dunlop explains the implications of climate change & peak oil for a debt-laden Qantas.

Dr Ben McNeil argues that if likely blow-outs in construction costs are taken into account, the Switowski report's figures on nuclear power no longer stack up.