What Canada can learn from Australia’s plans for going green
to power every country on earth. Australia wants to reach 80 per cent renewable power by 2030. The government’s push will help propel change already in motion. The company that runs the country’s largest coal plant plans to close it in 2025, seven years early, becausewith the falling cost of renewable energy.
Australia’s turnaround is welcome. It’s also essential in a world where the worst forecasts of climate change have been avoided, butto hit between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius. That’s far above the Paris goal of 1.5 C. The consequences could be severe, from human health – heat deaths and the spread of infectious diseases – to regular and costly extreme-weather batterings.
But as in Australia, what’s emerging is the realization that cutting emissions doesn’t have to mean impoverishing modern economies. There are lots of small opportunities to find efficiencies, and lots of big opportunities to switch to new technologies. There ishangs over this year’s UN meeting. Progress feels slow. But in some places, a lot of progress has been made, quickly. Australia is an example of how much things can change, and how quickly.
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