In Inside Story, Fergus Green unpacks the carbon pricing package to discover a tension between fundamentally different visions for the future of Australia’s economy and environment.

This 2011 update of significant elements of the 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review considers elements of the original review where changes or improvements in expert knowledge could have significant implications for the key findings and recommendations for future climate change policy.

With the date for a carbon price mechanism now set, Fergus Green goes in search of the missing philosophy behind Australian climate policy.

Carbon pricing will mean real changes to parts of the Australian economy, write John Daley and Tristan Edis in Inside Story, but its impact on most industries will be small.

In relation to a carbon pricing policy, it is not our democratic processes that has failed – it is parliamentary leadership, writes Silvana Anthony.