{"id":73723,"date":"2023-04-26T11:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T01:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=73723"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T01:01:11","slug":"net-zero-australia-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/net-zero-australia-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Net Zero Australia Report & The $7-9 Trillion Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Net Zero Australia Report came out on Friday, and I gotta tell ya, it’s a doozy!\u00a0 It’s so enormous the report’s summary report is 95 pages.\u00a0 It would take me a month of Sundays to get through the whole thing, but I have exactly one<\/em> Sunday, so I’ll quickly say what it’s about and describe how you’re likely to see its results abused online and in the media. <\/p>\r\n

But don’t worry, I’ll make sure Ronald, our bearded blogger, gets around to writing an in-depth article later on what it says about the future of Australian solar.<\/p>\r\n

Wait a minute… I am Ronald, the bearded blogger!\u00a0 Goddammit!\u00a0 I just made work for myself!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The Net Zero Australia report is the result of collaboration between the University of Melbourne, Princeton University, The University of Queensland, Nous Group Consulting, and other strange people.\u00a0 It describes in great detail what Australia needs to do to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.\u00a0 It’s an extremely interesting report that took an immense amount of work from a wide range of experts and is mostly wrong. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

It’s just unavoidable that most of these predictions are gonna be off. We’re looking at a whole bunch of scenarios, and there’s no way they can all pan out. If one of them happens to be mostly right, well, that’s just blind luck. I mean, come on! Predicting stuff over 27+ years? That’s like someone back in 1990 saying, “Hey, Trump’s gonna be president ’cause he’s got this knack for writing 140 characters that really tick off Americans!”.<\/p>\r\n

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Trump’s leadership qualities were shining through as early as 2013. I can’t believe it took so long for America to make him President.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

Or, on a more technical level, it’s like predicting back in 1996 that today 30% of Australian homes would have rooftop solar<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Even though it’s unlikely that any of these scenarios will be 100% spot-on, that doesn’t mean it’s a waste of time to dig into what Australia needs to do to achieve net-zero emissions in the coming decades\u2014or, fingers crossed, even sooner. This report’s got it all, covering a whole spectrum of topics, like:<\/p>\r\n