Professor Garnaut said Australia can achieve this aim by the end of the 2030s due to its strong renewable energy base.
He told Sky News Australia must move "to a zero-emission economy before 2050" if the government plans to meet its Paris Agreement targets. "The recommendations I make are fully consistent with government policy," he said. "We can make a good start within the current policy framework".
As long as the lnp stop holding it back and actually invest in our future. LNPfail
Well placed to become a third world economy, that is. There is one one low carbon solution for Australia; Nuclear.
Ross Garnaut might be prominent but that doesn't mean he knows what he is talking about.
codswollop! 100% unreliable wind and solar? get real and get onto nuclear power. Thorium reactors are the way of the future
Obviously Ross lives in a capital city and rarely ventures outside of it. How do these 'experts' think we r going to be able to efficiently move goods and stock with an electric vehicle which will be sidelined due to unreliable power supply. Living with Alice and the Mad Hatter.
The horseless carriage shall never replace the horse and buggy !
And 100% unemployment and cave dweller status - puhleese 👎😡
Ross Garnaut is a communist and lives in China
‘Economist’
What Bullshit from that ideologue.
Dial a CC quote Garnaut.
No doubt we can but is the risk of jod destroying unreliable intermittent power and expensive power prices worth it.
Prof ross garnaut = a freak academic socialist earth enemy
Garnaut is “ well placed “ to peddle the UN agenda , the agenda that will destroy Australians way of life . He’s another Rancid socialist using climate to destroy western civilisation.
Not if the LNP get their way.
I'm sure he has Alzheimer’s, no 1st world place on Earth can run on 100 per cent renewable energy. Just for starters you need fossil fuels to make renewables, they can't be made any other way. Also the fact that solar waste is 300 times more toxic than a nuclear power plant!
Rubbish
Where did he get his Professorship, a Corn Flakes packet
Fingers crossed we make the move...
No. (Maybe in a galaxy far, far away )
It could only be 100% if everything closed down at dusk, no industry. No buildings over 4 floors. A form of base energy is required.
No one else has or can. What makes you think we can.
I'm going but shares in a home generator company.
100% renewables what’s stopping them ,all major corporations are endorsing it why aren’t they financing renewables instead asking the taxpayers to pay the bill
jdwarte92 looks like youll live to see a bright future
Tell me what renewable energy companies you are invested in? Then tell me where our economy will replace the revenue from coal?
What’s he been drinking
What could go wrong 🙄
Ugly.
If your goal is to put us normal folk into financial ruin, then yes go ahead with your disastrous plan, I'm sure you will not be effected, seeing you are pushing for it
Garnaut has joined that other old irrelevant fossil Attenborough. Time for the old dementia unit gents.
Entirely possible for 100% renewable. but is it the most sustainable solution? How does it compare with alternative solutions? That is what we should be debating.
Yeah. Renew ya solar panels every 20 years. Renew the batteries every 10 years. The catastrophic effect of all this useless garbage will negate ANY effect it's supposed to eliminate. The minerals are finite and have disastrous ecological effects NOW. Toxic poisoning rare earth.
NOT with THIS Luddite, Disingenuous Federal Government.
hahaha '100% renewable energy future' sure, we'd have to change govt first, then probably wait until Greens get balance of power..? so, no, probably not for a while...
Really
Your reporting is appalling - this is utter rubbish: the Australian grid is already tottering because of the lack of new coal-fired power stations. So-called 'renewables'(ie toxic-unreliables$) cannot provide baseline power.
Going out to buy candles. Gas cooker. Torches. Batteries. Going to need them
If you put all economists end to end they still wouldn't reach a conclusion
How’s Rosco going with his kangaroo farming? He should’ve taken over the red meat industry by now and saved the planet with his success. Funny how the biggest mouths don’t get the money put in them.
Australia exports $60 billion in gas each year. We get nothing out of it. The companys offshore the money & arent paying tax. Norway exports a similar quantity & have $2500 billion saved. Were getting robbed, so lets at least get robbed by renewables. Cant be worse.
Well with plenty of cleared land
So, if the govt were to spend that $100bn on renewables infrastructure, we could have 1000s of new jobs, a stimulated economy, a clean air future, and meet our 2050 target? What a suprise!
Sick & tired of these renewable energy targets. Let’s get this straight you are not going to change the weather whatsoever.
As long as we brace ourselves for blackouts once a week.
That’s impossible! Not when there is a demand for “COAL”.. try better next time.
Australia under attack. That's why they gave us the well engineered fire psyop meanwhile in the USA it's cold as. The whole carbon tax global warming is a sham and people must be arrested within government for perpetuating this myth and bringing much grief to many with their fire
Rubbish
Of course we can in the long run. That’s why the government invested $1b I tot he renewables sector recently.
Tosh. This is absolute madness.
and how much will that cost?
Say goodbye to your Sunday roast folks. Can we please get an opposition, not a woke party & slightly less woke party
Well at this moment Renewables are not an option Australia needs Rain not power...
It'll be a waste if time and resources if no-one can afford it.
Let's do it! 👍💪🇦🇺
Despite Scott Morrison’s best efforts Australia has a target of net zero emissions for 2050. Every state has a net zero target including NSW premier GladysB yet the PM accuses federal Labor of being economically reckless. Via RDNS_TAI auspol
and the cost
100% Renewables future = 100% blackouts and 100% utilities increase ClimateEmergency = ClimateScam auspol
Is this idiot still getting air time
News flash, professor triggers RWNJ flat earthers 😂😂😂😂
Fantastic...so long as I only need 3 small batteries that will deliver me the equivalent of base load power 24/7 for at least 3 weeks without recharging...cost only $10 each and last for at least 5yrs.....count me in...!!!
Excellent let’s bring on huge energy prices and black outs yeow!
If we got to 100% renewables it would not make the slightest difference to climate change. The big polluters are china and india. Is Greta Thunburg going over and telling them what to do. I doubt it. They would not let her in the country.
Really? Seems we’re way off from covering simple base load. And pricing? Elitists are fine paying crazy rates but what the rest of us.
We'll be up front when the time comes. Not yet, but over a realistic amount of years we'll get real progress, I imagine, regardless of what government sits. Interesting interview
That’s a joke we will never get to the stage of a 100% renewables ever, this guy has been playing with himself for tooooo long.
In what universe?
We need the right government first
Yes at what cost to poor people seems only the rich can afford to live
So when the economy collapses and people are unable to heat their homes in winter, what are we going to do? What about when we are starving to death because we don't have enough energy to farm efficiently? This is a gross violation of our nation and people, it's treason.
Climate by an eCONomist....piss off Garnaut, your as silly as Attenborough and Prince Charles ffs!
Best start buying up some candles for when that happens!
What a croc of Sh!t.
Requires only a COAL-ition willing to change