Australia is fossil fuel dependent – supplying half the globes’ iron ore, and nearly as much coking coal.
In a world that's looking to get away from fossil fuels, this is a problem.
What can Australia do to maintain its mineral wealth and meet emissions targets?
Rear Vision drills down into our coal and iron-ore industries.
And asks, can Green Iron save us?
Guests:
Tim Buckley Director of Climate Energy Finance
Jorrit Gosens, fellow at the centre for Climate and energy policy, Crawford school for public policy at ANU
Rod Sims, Economist and Chair of the Superpower Institute
Christoph Nedopil Wang, Professor of Economics and director of the Griffith Asia Institute.
Presented and produced by Ros Bluett