evaluation in the Australian context. The experts agreed that environmental effectiveness is a principal criterion confirming that GHG reduction is the primary aim for a climate change policy. Overall, the Delphi approach employed by Guglyuvatyy enabled the obtaining of reliable and methodically justified weightings for climate change evaluation criteria. <B>Current Australian Developments The results of the study discussed in the previous section deliver the set of criteria which are comparable with the criteria designated by the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee with some important differences. Moreover, the discussed Delphi study confirmed the validity of the proposed criteria and comparative importance of those criteria for climate change policy evaluation. As mentioned in the above section, the Delphi experts agreed that the three principal criteria are non-economic signifying the equity characteristics of a climate change policy. Importantly, the and ‘transparency’ ‘minimising rent-seeking’ criteria do not even appear in the list of principles considered by the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee. Conversely, the competitiveness issues, administrative costs and international harmonization criteria while appearing in the 11 principles espoused by the Committee, were assessed as least important in the Guglyuvatyy Delphi study. The criteria prioritized by the Committee, and as a result the introduced policy, appear to reflect political negotiation rather than an effective and transparent process of policymaking. The result of such a policymaking process is a compromised policy and non-transparent political trade-off. Thus, there is no surprise that the introduced policy has been the subject of significant criticism. However, the carbon pricing legislation discussed above has been recently repealed by the present Australian government. Instead of the carbon pricing mechanism the Australian government has introduced the Direct Action Plan. Unfortunately, the government did not provide details concerning the development of the Direct Action Plan. It is not clear what the basis for the introduced policy is. Successive Australian governments attempting to introduce climate change related policies were taking into consideration policy developments and proposals of previous governments. However, the policy introduced by the present Abbott government is strikingly different to carbon pricing and/or emissions
evaluation in the Australian context. The experts agreed that environmental effectiveness is a principal criterion confirming that GHG reduction is the primary aim for a climate change policy. Overall, the Delphi approach employed by Guglyuvatyy enabled the obtaining of reliable and methodically justified weightings for climate change evaluation criteria. <B>Current Australian Developments The results of the study discussed in the previous section deliver the set of criteria which are comparable with the criteria designated by the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee with some important differences. Moreover, the discussed Delphi study confirmed the validity of the proposed criteria and comparative importance of those criteria for climate change policy evaluation. As mentioned in the above section, the Delphi experts agreed that the three principal criteria are non-economic signifying the equity characteristics of a climate change policy. Importantly, the ‘transparency’ and ‘minimising rent-seeking’ criteria do not even appear in the list of principles considered by the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee. Conversely, the competitiveness issues, administrative costs and international harmonization criteria while appearing in the 11 principles espoused by the Committee, were assessed as least important in the Guglyuvatyy Delphi study. The criteria prioritized by the Committee, and as a result the introduced policy, appear to reflect political negotiation rather than an effective and transparent process of policymaking. The result of such a policymaking process is a compromised policy and non-transparent political trade-off. Thus, there is no surprise that the introduced policy has been the subject of significant criticism. However, the carbon pricing legislation discussed above has been recently repealed by the present Australian government. Instead of the carbon pricing mechanism the Australian government has introduced the Direct Action Plan. Unfortunately, the government did not provide details concerning the development of the Direct Action Plan. It is not clear what the basis for the introduced policy is. Successive Australian governments attempting to introduce climate change related policies were taking into consideration policy developments and proposals of previous governments. However, the policy introduced by the present Abbott government is strikingly different to carbon pricing and/or emissions
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