Resource crisis, fiscal crisis, climate crisis – it’s clear our economic structure isn’t working. But what’s the alternative? What will our financial markets look like in 2040?

While politicians capitulate on industry calls for carbon price concessions, a Grattan Institute report says handouts to black coal, LNG and steel are misguided, and could amount to 'new protectionism.'

The coal seam gas clash shows how economics and ecology are increasingly two sides of the same coin. Politicians now straining to separate them will find it increasingly difficult to do so.

The Labor government's carbon package road-show is making progress, but it's perilously slow. Greg Combet tells Climate Spectator that he is digging in for a long term campaign against fear.

A worrying aspect of the US debt negotiations is the apparent inability of the political elite to recognise and manage risk. This does not bode well for the response to climate change.