Alternative Australian climate change plans: The public’s views

摘要: Climate change has come to the forefront of Australian politics and there is now an active on-going policy debate about how best reach a commonly agreed long term goal. This paper looks at five major dimensions this constructs options based on them. A discrete choice experiment approach was used with representative sample from internet panel provider. Survey respondents made choices between pairs different characteristics. They favored policies starting in 2010 rather than 2012, spending 20% revenue raised energy-related R&D. were almost evenly split whether plan should initially exempt transport sector two competing approaches that redistribute plan, and, they opposed plans giving special treatment energy-intensive sectors economy. number other relevant questions related understanding views knowledge climate also asked.