Environmental Sustainability (1 Viewer)

[kittystar]

What are some of the alternate policies that could be used to assist with climate change and pollution?

Thanks

 

[kwu1]

Taxes, regulations/policies, permits, fines.

 

[OzKo]

Markets.

 

[kittystar]

Markets.

Fascinating answer.

 

[seremify007]

What are some of the alternate policies that could be used to assist with climate change and pollution?

Thanks

You mean other than the carbon tax?

There's always two ways policies work- carrot or stick. Carrots could be anything from subsidies, research grants, rewards for doing well, government contracts, additional promotion/marketing/endorsement, etc... whereas sticks could be taxes, fines, penalties, negative publicity, etc.

 

[Kurby]

Yep, a lot of different methods. A tax or a pollution permit trading mechanism seems to be the popular ones these days.

 

[kittystar]

You mean other than the carbon tax?

There's always two ways policies work- carrot or stick. Carrots could be anything from subsidies, research grants, rewards for doing well, government contracts, additional promotion/marketing/endorsement, etc... whereas sticks could be taxes, fines, penalties, negative publicity, etc.

Yes, other than Australia's current government policies. This is a sample essay question I did - Analyse the effectiveness of government and alternative policies in response to the issues of climate change and pollution.

 

[RishBonjour]

Yes, other than Australia's current government policies. This is a sample essay question I did - Analyse the effectiveness of government and alternative policies in response to the issues of climate change and pollution.

Markets.

You could talk about that as a limitation when analysing effectiveness of govt policies. lack of property rights mean pollution need to be monitored by external body (costly etc) but if they had property rights, it would work just like a market where private buyers/sellers work to their best interest. BUT emphasise on taxes (carbon tax, permits - possibly joint with EU later in the decade (read in a newspaper a while ago)? and subsidies as others said. Regulations - licences?, there are loads for this topic.

 

[kittystar]

You could talk about that as a limitation when analysing effectiveness of govt policies. lack of property rights mean pollution need to be monitored by external body (costly etc) but if they had property rights, it would work just like a market where private buyers/sellers work to their best interest. BUT emphasise on taxes (carbon tax, permits - possibly joint with EU later in the decade (read in a newspaper a while ago)? and subsidies as others said. Regulations - licences?, there are loads for this topic.

Yes once the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme begins in 2015 (unless Liberal wins the election and abolishes it), the Australian government wants to float the price for carbon with Europe's current Emission trading scheme.

Thanks for that, although I don't fully understand why external bodies need to regulate if there is a lack of property rights - can't the government still regulate that?