Carr a good appointment

Stuff reports:

Former Reserve Bank chairman Rod Carr will lead the Government’s Climate Change Commission.
This will make him one of the most powerful people in the country, responsible for setting carbon budgets and other plans for future governments to follow – although they can ignore his recommendations.
Carr will serve a five-year term once the Government finally passes it’s Zero Carbon Act, which it has promised to do my Christmas, about a year and a half behind schedule.

Rod Carr seems a very good choice.

The issue of reducing greenhouse has emissions is primarily an economic issue. How do you reduce emissions in a way which minimises damage to economic growth and hence household incomes.

So having a highly skilled and respected economist as chair is a good sign. It indicates that what is proposed is likely to be economically rational, even if still unpalatable for some.