Former Business Council of Australia president and energy executive Grant King, who championed the $80 billion LNG export industry in central Queensland, will overhaul the Climate Change Authority to drive Australia’s emissions reduction – only two years after the Morrison government almost scrapped the government body.

Mr King, the former long-serving chief executive of Origin Energy who has been appointed as chairman of the Climate Change Authority, believes the move to reduce emissions should not come at the expense of jobs or economic growth.