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Vital Signs: Marketing is getting in the way of markets that could get us to net-zero

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

This week the prime minister entered full marketing mode.

Scott Morrison’s topic was climate change and his plans to get to net-zero.

At the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday, he tried out a few slogans.

Among those he test marketed:

  • can do capitalism, not ‘don’t do governments’

  • no one passed a law or...

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