👋🏼 G’day, I’m Charles
I’m passionate about economics, climate science, and building talented teams.
Get in touch with me (@cfcoverdale) to hear more about my experience or current projects.
🧪 Projects
👨🏼💻 Coding cookbooks
R Cookbook for the Casual Dabbler
Python Cookbook for the Casual Dabbler
📦 R Packages
austools: Tools for modelling the Australian economy
🗞️ Net zero and carbon policy explainers
The governance of carbon capital
Shifting the net zero dial in Budget 2023
The Wires that Bind: Adopting more than one carbon price
Decarbonisation in practice: using the marginal abatement cost curves
Offset permanence and the time value of carbon
How to spot a quality carbon credit
The risky business of double counting: How ITMO’s will help international carbon offsets
Doing the heavy lifting: How Safeguard will make big business responsible for emissions reduction
3 things to watch: Chubb Review into ACCUs
Internal carbon pricing: A 101 guide
Carrot and stick: Securing the Safeguard Mechanism
Beyond the Budget and towards net zero
🌏 Climate modelling and data science
netzeroAU: documenting Australia’s net zero transition one tile at a time
This is not normal: climate, records, and an uncertain future
Graphing 365 tempeRature records
It’s getting hot in here: A climate analysis in R
ASGS Mapping of Australia (web app)
Automating daily weather chart downloads and email reports from BOM using Python
🏆 Elections, budgets, and economic policy
CGT talking points for you next family BBQ
Budget 2024-25: Stoking the inflation fire
Budget 2023-24: Good luck needs even better management
How to read the federal #Budget
Budget 2022-23: Dancing with Deficits
Analysing the 2019 Australian federal election (web app)
A very Australian election: donkeys, dicks, and other informalities
Australia’s quirky electoral geography
📕 Op-eds
CoRonavirus: numbers and hindsight
Assumptions, travel, and public policy: A year as a consulting Economist
China: An emissions rescuer or perpetrator?
👓 Reading lists
2024 reading list2023 reading list2022 reading listPodcasts