Garnaut Climate Change Review – Update 2011, Final Report Released

The Final Report of the “Garnaut Climate Change Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change“ has been released yesterday.

The Garnaut Climate Change Review—Update 2011 released a series of papers in February and March 2011 addressing developments across a range of areas including:

• climate change science and impacts,
• international mitigation progress,
• carbon pricing,
• land,
• innovation, and
• the electricity sector.

Professor Garnaut delivered his final report (summary of final report) to the Prime Minister on 31 May 2011.

Garnaut makes one good point – This is the fourth time that Australia has moved towards economy-wide carbon pricing (page 76).

Garnaut calls for an “umpire“, an “independent body to prevent policy being derailed by vested interests. So far so good. But… the independent reviewer who submitted an independent review recommends an independent body… get the irony?