What is so controversial about a climate ‘toolkit’?

By Richard Denniss
Updated September 16 2016 - 11:13am, first published September 10 2016 - 11:46am
Taking the toolkit approach. Photo: Gary Medlicott
Taking the toolkit approach. Photo: Gary Medlicott

In the topsy-turvy world of Australian politics, much of the environment movement is more attached to neo-liberalism than the Coalition government. While US President Barack Obama might have used air quality regulations and a moratorium on building new coal mines to get around a grumpy Congress, in Australia we are often told that only a "market-based mechanism" can be trusted to solve climate change. It can't.

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