Renew Economy: Irrespective of who wins the next election, the 2016-19 parliament will play a key role in shaping Australias long-term climate policy framework, with policymakers likely to work towards a bi-partisan policy framework prior to the conclusion of the Kyoto Protocol in 2020 in order to provide greater policy certainty going into the post-2020 period.
While bi-partisanship rarely means agreement on all policy levers, consensus on key structural design factors such as the mechanism itself (ETS or...