The transition to net zero will be one of Australia’s biggest transformations, and many believe we need a national body to coordinate and plan the change.
, where they started quite a long time ago, it was a very coal-intensive region and they could see that that coal was in decline," Dr Cahill said.
A miner kisses the symbolic last piece of coal mined in Bottrop, Germany, after the country shuttered its black coal mines in 2018.Australia has some regional transition authorities already, like in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. But Dr Cahill believes an energy transition authority should be established at both regional and national levels.
"There need to be bodies in regions as things are changing. That planning needs to be locally led because every place is different." "It needs to be its own centralised authority, that is coordinating people working on those different areas."As well as the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Council of Trade Unions , Dr Cahill said there was "surprisingly widespread" support for a national energy transition authority.
"The government indicated during the climate negotiations that they would consider the Greens' plans for a transition authority. So we're really hopeful that they will negotiate with us on that," she said.Will the federal government support a transition authority?Creating a 'Just Transition Authority' was a promise made during Labor's failed 2019 election campaign.
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