Monash University > News and Events > Monash Memo > Notices

A New Architecture for Domestic Climate Change Policy: Trading, Tax or Technologies?

Published: 13 August2008

A number of options are available to policy makers when developing domestic policy responses to the challenge of climate change. In this seminar, prominent Californian academic and government adviser Professor W. Michael Hanemann will outline the economic arguments for an emission trading scheme, and assess the merits of such an approach against other measures, including a carbon tax and 'command and control' style regulatory policies. Professor Hanemann will explain the economic logic that underpins California's proposed approach to domestic climate change policy: a mix of regulatory policies and emission trading. He will also comment on the economic policies required to promote technological innovation.

Registration essential by Wednesday 13 August, 2008.

Speaker: Professor W. Michael Hanemann, University of California, Berkeley
Time: 1-2 pm
Date: Friday 15 August, 2008
Venue: Monash University, lecture theatre R4, building 8 (Rotunda), Clayton campus

For further information and registrations visit the North America Network Seminar web page. .