Ross Garnaut
News and interviews on Ross Garnaut including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Big penalties for sharemarket misconduct, BHP to sell stake in Indonesian coal project: Economy RoundupThursday, 28 January 2010
Financial Services Minister Chris Bowen has unveiled proposals to beef up the supervisory powers of the Australian Security and Investment Commission and increase penalties for individuals and companies found guilty of market misconduct. ...
Inflation gauge rises 0.3% in December: Economy Roundup
Monday, 18 January 2010
A private indicator of inflation has now risen for a second consecutive month, indicating price pressures – and interest rate rises – are set to continue over 2010. ...
Sector cools off
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Industry revenue over the five year current performance period to the conclusion of the 2009-10 financial year, will show fairly subdued growth when averaged across the five years, increasing at a rate of 2.6% per annum. ...
The consequences of a booming economy: Kohler
Friday, 23 October 2009
It's hard to imagine a more dramatic day of speeches by leading Australians than yesterday. ...
Putting green back into the green and gold: the export opportunities from climate change
Thursday, 03 September 2009
Imagine a country that is inward looking and rarely notices the world beyond its own borders. There's double-digit inflation and unemployment and a poor record of economic growth. Workers and their bosses are at each other's throats, the country leads the world ...
Australia may still pay for its “lost decade”: Kohler
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
Australia and Latvia have much in common and two important things that are different. ...
Shares surge on US bank bailout, third stimulus package on the way? Economy roundup
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
The Australian sharemarket has opened over 2.5% higher today after a surge on Wall Street overnight, led by the release of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's bank rescue plan. ...
Garnaut recommends 25% emissions cut , but only if global climate agreement is reached
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
Australia should cut its greenhouse emissions by 25% by 2020 and up to 90% by 2050 – but only if other countries do the same. That was the central message from the final version of the Rudd government’s report into climate change, compiled by Professor Ross ...
SMEs have been overlooked in climate change debate: ACCI
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the impact of an emissions trading scheme on small and medium businesses has been largely overlooked and must be debated more seriously before a scheme is introduced. ...
Garnaut’s frightening climate change challenge: Kohler
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Climate change mitigation is an emotionally moral topic in which the direct participants fluctuate between shouting and horse-trading. The reaction from scientists and greenies to the new Garnaut paper is of the shouting variety – that it’s too soft – and ...
Garnaut sets carbon targets, but business groups worried
Monday, 08 September 2008
Australia can no longer wait to act on climate change and must be prepared for increased energy prices in order to sustain long-term economic growth, the final draft of the Garnaut report claims. ...
SmartCompany’s quick guide to the Garnaut report
Monday, 07 July 2008
According to most commentators, the release of the Ross Garnaut’s Climate Change Review on Friday is set to herald some of the biggest economic changes in a generation. ...
Garnaut’s scary report a disappointment: Kohler
Monday, 07 July 2008
Ross Garnaut’s draft report has certainly achieved one of its aims – it has scared the crap out of everybody – but perhaps not in the way intended. We’re all now more frightened of the scheme than the effects of global warming. ...
Update: Garnaut urges transport inclusion
Saturday, 05 July 2008
Economics professor Ross Garnaut has urged the Federal Government to include transport in any carbon trading scheme in his report on the future of climate change policy released this afternoon. ...
Small business costs of emissions cuts unclear: Garnaut
Friday, 22 February 2008
A high-profile report on Australia’s response to climate change released yesterday has left open the prospect of compensation for small and medium sized businesses affected by any policy change. The report, by economist Ross Garnaut, the head of a key review ...
Wild weather to hit insurance premiums
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Insurance premiums paid by Australian businesses and consumers are likely to be driven higher by extreme weather caused by global warming, a new report has found. An issues paper prepared by Ross Garnaut, the man charged with advising the Rudd Government ...
Rudd stands firm on emissions target calls
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Prime Minister Rudd is continuing to resist increasingly loud calls for Australia to commit to emission cut targets of up to 40% by 2020. Rudd told reporters at the UN Conference on Climate Change currently taking place in Bali that he will not commit to any ...
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Friday, 13 July 2007
Inside Manage your own band... Time's top 50 sites... Streaming ads revenue booms... China beats US at carbon chaos... Quote of the day Wannabe band managers’ dream come true There are two kinds of music aficionados in the world – those who dream about ...
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