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What Rod Sims’ embrace of energy superpower idea means for Australia
The shift to clean energy seems to be accelerating on virtually every front. Business should give Sims and Garnaut a hearing.
Ben PotterSenior writerAt the heart of Ross Garnaut’s campaign for Australia to shed the baggage of the climate policy wars and become a clean energy superpower is a full-frontal challenge to the Australian government and industry consensus on the pace of the historic shift.
Most industry and governments assume the transition should proceed at a measured pace, to allow Australia’s industries – which typically strive to be early followers of new innovations invented overseas, rather than pioneers – to keep up.
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