The country’s leading climate technology experts have warned the Australian government not to expect future technology to solve its climate change problems, saying it must develop a policy-driven approach to let existing technology drive down fossil fuel usage now.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week announced a “technology-driven” plan would be taken to the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow this week, which relied heavily on the idea that new technologies would be invented in coming years to do much of the heavy lifting.