Count emissions-reduction as productivity: Intergenerational report


Brandon How
Reporter

Reductions in emissions intensity should be considered a productivity measure to encourage the uptake of low-emissions technologies, according to the Albanese government’s first intergenerational report.

With existing productivity measurements failing to capture the cost of pollution or emission efficiency, the report notes Australia “underestimates benefits from technological and other improvements to production that increase the carbon emissions efficiency of production”.

The Intergenerational Report (IGR) also suggests measuring the energy productivity …

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