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It's time to add climate change and net-zero emissions to the RBA's top 3 economic goals

  • Written by Toby Phillips, Public Policy Researcher, University of Oxford
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Increasingly, climate change is at the centre of government decision-making.

This year’s federal budget devoted pages to an examination of the fiscal impact of climate change; Treasury has established a climate change modelling unit; and it’ll be front and centre of next year’s intergenerational report.

Yet it is...

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