Queensland has the motivation to decarbonise rapidly as climate disasters have cost it about $30 billion between 1979 and 2019,more than any other state,according to a Climate Council report on Monday.
Palaszczuk is still reluctant to set more ambitious emissions targets,but she’s indicated they will change as more renewable generation is switched on.
“We are working very hard,and these targets will change,and I think they’ll change dramatically over each decade,” she told reporters.
The premier also announced that a $2 billion deal had been signed with Spain’s ACCIONA Energia to build a 1000 megawatt wind farm in the MacIntyre Wind Precinct,near Warwick.
The decarbonisation plan doesn’t mention coal exports,which are the state’s biggest contributor to global climate change.
Burning all 276.5 million tonnes of coal that Queensland exported in 2021-22 would equal Brazil’s carbon emissions in the 2020 calendar year.