Some 300 people listened on Thursday night as Dr Cameron
Hepburn discussed: “Multiple climate change policies: Killing no birds with two
stones?”
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| Dr Cameron Hepburn |
Dr Hepburn, an economist specializing in environmental and
public policy fellowships at the London School of Economics and Oxford
University, who holds both British and
Australian passports and has been working with Melbourne’s Grattan Institute.
More than 200 people listened as Dr Hepburn explained the
complications and difficulties associated with overlapping climate change
abatement policies.
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| Dr Malte Meinshausen |
He was joined on the stage by the director of executive
projects with Origin Energy Australia, Mr Andrew Stock, and an honorary fellow
with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the School of Earth
Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Dr Malte Meinshausen.
Dr Hepburn noted that Australia presently has about 300
climate change abatement policies.
He suggested that human-induced climate change difficulties
could be halved if we simply stopped subsidizing technologies, ideas or
projects that relied on fossil fuels.
Dr Hepburn said a carbon price was appropriate for Australia
and that needed to be accompanied by a small suite of climate change policies.
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