Creating an investment pipeline for renewable energy across regional Queensland
New and effective approaches to regional planning for rapid decarbonisation will be required. This Policy Brief outlines a three step innovation toward fully integrating new science and technologies.
ID:
3810
Authors:
Allan Dale
Year:
Month:
December
Resource Type:
Policy brief
Geographic Coverage:
Queensland
To achieve timely mitigation of climate risk, and to replace Queensland’s reliance on income and energy from coal mining and generation, the Queensland economy will need to go through very significant transition over the next 26 years to 2050.
New and effective approaches to regional planning for rapid decarbonisation will be required to ensure high biodiversity and cultural value will be protected, attract quality investors, ensure process certainty for those investors, prioritise and plan for allied infrastructure, services and resources to support decarbonisation investment, and maximise and maintain the State's social licence.
Overcoming these challenges and securing these benefits will require strong Commonwealth, state and local government cooperation, very effective land use and infrastructure planning at regional scale, and the full integration of new science and technologies.