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Prominent Australians

  • Dr. Dennys Angove

    Dr. Dennys Angove

    Atmospheric chemist

  • Dr. Paul Burke

    Dr. Paul Burke

    Economics & public policy professor

  • Dr Tom Denniss

    Mathematician, oceanographer, entrepreneur, and athlete

  • Prof. Rosalind Dixon

    Prof. Rosalind Dixon

    Law professor, Australian Law Academic of the Year

  • Ross Gittins AM

    Ross Gittins AM

    Economic & political journalist

  • Prof. Richard Holden

    Prof. Richard Holden

    Economist

  • Dr Kerryn Phelps AM

    Dr Kerryn Phelps AM

    Medical practitioner and politician

  • Warwick Smith

    Warwick Smith

    Economist

  • Rod Taylor

    Rod Taylor

    Writer, author, broadcaster, and photojournalist

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Organisations

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To be clear: The people and organisations above ☝️ explicitly support the Australian Carbon Dividend.

The people below 👇 are advocates for carbon pricing in general.

More public advocates for carbon pricing 👇

Note: The people and organisations above ☝️ explicitly support the Australian Carbon Dividend.
The people below 👇 are advocates for carbon pricing in general.

 

“The biggest thing we can do is put in place a carbon price.”

Mike Cannon-Brookes,
CEO, Atlassian, 7th Nov 2018.

“To bend down the greenhouse gas emissions curve, governments should immediately adjust system-wide market incentives, such as replacing fossil fuel subsidies with a price on carbon, and institute new performance standards to guide industry, such as vehicle emissions limits and energy efficiency standards for buildings.”

— Tariq Fancy, ex-Chief Investment Officer for Sustainable Investing at BlackRock.
The Secret Diary of a ‘Sustainable Investor’.

“I prefer the elegant simplicity of a simple tax on carbon with all the proceeds raised going back to the taxpayers. We get into more and more complex schemes, designed to achieve the simple objective, i.e. the shift from old energy to renewables and efficiencies, which get us to the Paris targets.”

— Bob Carr, University of Technology Sydney
Industry Professor of Climate, 19 May 2020.

 

“We need a price on carbon, we need to ensure that the most effective energy gets into the system.”

— Peter Coleman, ex-CEO, Woodside Petroleum, 14 November 2018.

“A market mechanism is needed to incentivise industry to reduce emissions. We need to adequately price carbon in our economic decision making.”

— Michael Chen, Westpac Head of Sustainability, 10 July 2019.

 

“Comprehensive carbon pricing is the centrepiece of any environmentally and economically efficient program to reduce emissions.”

— Ross Garnaut, University of Melbourne Professorial Research Fellow in Economics, 6 November 2019.

“As with interest rates there is a worldwide jumble of carbon prices that are mostly a fraction of what they need to be. In a paper published a month ago the IMF said that there are currently 60 carbon taxes and trading systems around the world, but the average global carbon price is just $US2 per tonne. To achieve the 2 degrees of warming Paris target that everyone signed up to, a global price of $US75 would be needed, according to the IMF”

— Alan Kohler, The Australian Financial Journalist, 28 January 2020.

 

“We should apply some form of regulation, or could be [a] carbon tax. That allows the market to decide: what is the right technology to solve the challenges of having low-cost electricity, having low-emissions electricity, and having reliable electricity.”

— Andrew McKenzie, CEO, BHP, 22 February 2018.

“By mid-century, we will have 100% renewable energy... we would do it better with a price on carbon.”

— Ken Henry, NAB Former Chair, 18 June 2019.

 

“If we want to reduce pollution in a cost effective way that actually works, then we must (re-)establish a carbon price. This would provide the much-needed certainty about the cost of genuine pollution reduction. This in turn would allow all major polluters to make strategic, long term investments that will progressively reduce emissions.”

— Ian MacKenzie, Senior Lecturer in Economics,
University of Queensland, 26 February 2018.

Zoe calls for introduction of a carbon tax "as quick as we can" and that governments had a role in encouraging lower carbon choices "through government-led carbon pricing mechanisms that avoid the pitfalls of previous designs.”

— Zoe Yujnovich, Shell Australia Chair, 27 February 2019.

“Our policy has not changed. We believe in climate change, we believe in carbon pricing.”

— Jean Sebastian Jacques, CEO, Rio Tinto, 14 November 2018.

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