Gavan McDonell untangles the history and politics of Australia’s National Energy Market.

In advance of the Garnaut Review’s final report, Iain McGill and Regina Betz argue that the introduction of a national Emissions Trading Scheme should see all permits auctioned rather than given away to industry.

Andrew Reeson and Karel Nolles examine how experimental economics can inform carbon market design.

Jane Castle argues that changes to the way Australia's energy market works will make it easier to green our economy.

Australia can outpace the Kyoto process without having to go it alone, writes John Perkins.

The Emissions Trading Task Group is a creature of another age - an age before we knew just how seriously our activities were jeapardising the climate. Former senior oil & coal industry executive Ian Dunlop argues that both sides of Australian politics need to wake up and smell the climate science.

The threat of climate change and the sale of Qantas have sat cheek-by-jowl on the business pages in recent weeks - but no one has spotted the link between the two. Former head of the AGO Experts Group on Emissions Trading Ian Dunlop explains the implications of climate change & peak oil for a debt-laden Qantas.

Dr Ben McNeil argues that if likely blow-outs in construction costs are taken into account, the Switowski report's figures on nuclear power no longer stack up.

The Switkowski report showed that it would take a serious attempt to cut CO2 emissions to make nuclear power viable. Ted Pritchard argues that this is exactly what Australia needs.