Carbon Price Toolkit 2012

Carbon Price Toolkit to Help Families

A carbon price toolkit is now available to all Australians to help calculate the cost of the carbon price, explain the compensation available and provide ideas for saving energy and money around the home.

The Climate Institute, Consumer advocate CHOICE, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and the Climate Institute have partnered with the CSIRO and AECOM to provide the toolkit explaining the impacts of the Australian Governments new carbon price on households.

The toolkit has been designed to help resolve some of the confusion about what the carbon price really means.

The kit provides a link to a simple online calculator which allows you to add up your household costs and compensation and look at ways to save.

The kit provides case studies for households with different incomes and identifies the estimated price changes for gas electricity, food and other household costs and the financial support to be provided by the government.