Moving Money into Renewables

Lane Crockett

Renewables is an obvious choice for investment for a number of reasons. On the economic front, they’re often regionally or rurally based so there’s lots of economic activity created with new skills and jobs. On the social side, it’s obviously providing clean energy, so it’s benefiting the health and wellbeing of people who live around current fossil fuel infrastructure. The more renewable energy we create, the less coal we have to burn. While we try to dwell on the positives, there are real risks if we don’t invest in renewables. On the macro level, Australia has signed up to the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit climate change to 1.5-2°C of warming. So we need to set some post-2020 policies that actually meet the requirements of what we agreed to.…

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