The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[DJC]

It won't happen, it's an arbitrary target / assertion that is largely completely ignorant of the global supply chain for renewables and batteries, demand is already exceeding supply and in the short term global supply is actually falling. Due to war, politics and economic profiteering by governments. When the world needs a tenfold increase, it's getting less.

This global shortfall is the primary reason for a push for countries like Australia and the USA to further open up resource mining, which is ironically being opposed by many of the same groups that push renewables. The take a NIBMY position, wanting SolarPV and Wind, but only if the materials mining is NIMBY.

Some may even argue, the best way for tiny little trivially polluting Australia to assist global carbon reduction targets in to not need or restrict any of the critical resources itself.

You keep making these claims but there's zero evidence to back them up.  Do you really think that AGL, Origin, etc don't have a handle on the global supply chain?

The owners of the coal-fired power stations are shutting them down under shareholder pressure.  That's mainly because they're becoming uneconomical, gas-fired power generation is a cheaper and better medium term alternative and renewables are by far the cheapest long term solution for Australia.