The Australian Conservation Foundation and ACTU have released a report calledCreating Jobs - Cutting Pollution that concludes that Australia can create 3.7million jobs across Australia by taking strong action now to reduce carbon emissions.
The report calls for a price on carbon, investment in renewable energy, in public transport and more efficient vehicle fleets, and a national energy efficiency strategy for both commercial and residential buildings.
Last month Melbourne-based research organisation Beyond Zero Emissionspublished a study showing Australia could, if we chose, make the switch to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020 using existing solar, wind and biofuel technology.
These a just the latest in a flurry of studies showing that we can move to a low-carbon, clean tech future. In this recent blog I mentioned a number of other studies along similar lines.
All that it needs now is some political leadership.
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