Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon says the UN’s report giving a 10-year deadline to shut down the coal industry was poorly researched and demonstrated a “poor understanding of Australia, our economy and our markets”.
This comes after a UN climate roadmap released on Monday at ANU’s 2021 Crawford Leadership Forum revealed OECD countries have been given until 2030 to close their coal mining industries.
“And we will need our coal generators in the system, our younger ones, for more than a decade to keep the grid stable and to get more renewables into the system.
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