A former Biden administration official has directly called out Australia’s renewed focus on building gas energy infrastructure, saying the country has all of the tools it needs to get to net zero, now.
Daniel Kammen, the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor on climate and energy at the Johns Hopkins University, and the former US science envoy, says he is also resigned to the fact that we’ve met the enemy – and it’s us.
“We have today everything we need to do a net zero transition that is good for social justice, good for the economy, et cetera. But does that mean we will do it?” he said at the Australian Energy Week conference in Melbourne.
“We’re all incredibly conservative on our own choices, and when we start to talk about the bigger and bigger energy-providing institutions, they are doubling and tripling down on gas.”
Kammen is a little astonished that renewables have succeeded at all, given the wall of money arrayed against the industry
