Carbon plan helps big polluters and falls down in big flaws

by Richard Denniss in The Canberra Times

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Originally published in The Canberra Times on November 20, 2009

The CPRS is perhaps the most poorly understood piece of legislation to dominate Australia’s public debate in modern times. While there have been acres of press about whether climate change exists or not, and acres more about how clever the Rudd Government has been in splitting the Coalition, there has been much less analysis of what the proposed emissions trading scheme actually does, and does not do.

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