Two new reports have found that regional Australia wants a plan for the future as the country looks to makes its net zero emissions transformation by 2050.
One of the reports released by the Regional Australia Institute focuses on regional cities, while the other looks at the industries outside capital cities that it says will be most affected by decarbonisation, including transport, mining, agriculture, civil engineering and heavy industry. "They want regulatory certainty about where the market is going to go, what's going to happen to the price of fossil fuels, what's going to happen to the price of electricity, what's going to happen to our energy-intensive industry that might be in our region," Dr Houghton said.The institute's Decarbonising Pivotal Industries In Regional Australia report found the process towards decarbonisation in the regions remained "immature".
But Todd Woodard's sheep and cattle farm at Wrattonbully, in South Australia's south-east, is already there.Rather than focusing on electricity and fuel use — which make up between 3 and 4 per cent of the farm's emissions — he has focused on "There's … a social licence there as well and I think that's where the industry needs to look at external expectations on us, as an industry, around good practices in not only animal welfare, but looking after the environment and doing our thing," he said.The Regional Australia Institute's second report released today, Transition Pathways in Regional Australia, found none of the local leaders interviewed regarded their regional cities as well-prepared for decarbonisation.
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