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John Connor

Memo from COP28: get motivated about hard-to-abate emissions

The announcements so far make it clearer than ever that we must redouble efforts to decarbonise industrial production and rapidly grow our clean energy industry.

Anyone who doubts that UN climate meetings can reshape and recharge actions back in Australia should reflect on the 2015 Paris Agreement – which has quickly become the standard by which our climate laws, policies and corporate actions are judged.

As COP28 in Dubai approaches the half-way point, we can already see some likely ramifications for the speed and manner of decarbonisation efforts in Australia.

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John Connor is chief executive of the Carbon Market Institute

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