Centre for Independent Studies 
On Thursday 22 June as we hosted a lunch event for a dynamic panel discussion on Australia’s energy pathway to net zero emissions by 2050. CIS welcomed NSW Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee, University of Queensland Adjunct Professor Stephen Wilson, and Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) National Co-Convenor Felicity Wade.
The NSW and federal governments are legislating targets to achieve net zero emissions based on 2005 levels by 2050, and our diverse panel of experts, each representing slightly different approach, provided in-depth insights and engaged in an exploration of various angles related to this topic.
With coal production in NSW set to continue for another decade, how is the current mining industry minimizing its carbon emissions to achieve the net zero goal set by government policy?
What will the energy landscape in 2050 look like?
And how can global emissions come down while non-OECD nations chug along the smoky path to prosperity?
What role could nuclear energy play in reducing carbon emissions on the pathway toward net zero by 2050?
Stephen Galilee is the CEO of the NSW Minerals Council since 2012. He was also a Senior Adviser to former Prime Minister John Howard and Chief of Staff to Mike Baird during his time as NSW Treasurer.
Felicity Wade ran the Wilderness Society in NSW for over a decade and has worked in responsible investment and politics. She currently works for Washington DC based think-tank, World Resources Institute supporting forest protection in the Indo-Pacific and leads the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN).
Professor Stephen Wilson is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering at UQ, provides advisory services through Cape Otway Associates, and is a director of an energy technology start-up.
Tom Switzer is Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies and a presenter on ABC Radio National.
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This is another example of bureaucracy, even all the talk and wasted time explaining the criminal intent of the globalist elites adds to the trillion-dollar price tag even under Joe Biden 7 trillion to the national debt and growing. You guys are just Flames from the gasoline the elites are pouring on Constitution I wish I could say you're making an impact but you are barely shining a light on the bigger problems to the Rogue aristocracy instilled by leftists socialists rhinos dinos offended by corporate interests and Banks and stock incentives by do nothing Prophets of no product stock schemes
Plants thrive better around 1K ppm. We're currently about 414 ppm. At 200 ppm certain plants start to struggle and die off. By 150 ppm most plants die. Human beings can withstand a few degrees in temperature change. Mankind cannot survive most plants dying off. Be careful what you ask for and don't go too far. We can come back from too high of temperature. We cannot come back from loss of most plant life.
I don't believe the CO2 problem, CO2 is at almost the lowest level in earth's history. Nuclear is the way forward. Some people don't want to admit this even if they understand how safe it is because then they wouldn't have anything to talk about.
We can’t have a sustainable future without reinventing culture and economics.
Wade just makes me shake my head. The selective and skewed use of cherry-picked statistics and "facts" to support her argument is so transparent that anyone who has done even a modicum of independent research can see through them like a cheap pair of glasses. If the NEM had been implemented, in full, as designed it would have worked fine – but the NEM was not implemented in full, with substantial political manipulations entered into the market causing significant distortions in its behaviour (I say this as someone who was very close to its initial design).
Terrific example of regulatory capture and FUD from the fossil fuel industry fighting for their right to pollute and keep sucking funds from the public purse
That is one incredibly insufferable woman. 10/10 politically slanted BS basket.
Net Zero is a death sentence for 1/3 of the population. Anyone even toying with this idea is a NAZI.
It's too expensive. I tried. My wife and I tried for 2 years to get a near bet zero home plan off the ground. It is to expensive.
And this women 'Felicity Wade' get's paid in her position! She is a good example of a representative of the deceptive Climate Cult, nothing more, the Chinese Communist love her! Teza from Sydney
We need to stop panicking over carbon dioxide. The problem has been grossly exaggerated.
Turbines need coal power to fire them up and to keep them turning when the wind drops off and or fluctuates. Hence the rolling black outs in S.A.
Wind turbine companies are being paid a motza per turbine per year..Robbing Australians 40 billion per year. Thanks Howard!!
You will NEVER make net zero and you ALL know it. Nothing but a redistribution of wealth!!
Mass immigration does not help achieving net zero or a reliable grid.
Think of all the expensive tunneling for infrastructure just for starters.
Thank you for an excellent debate, this is a topic I have been pondering for the last 6 months or so. It is nice to hear that some people in our community are taking it seriously, even if our government is not.
What they are really saying is, in a nice way, depopulation by 2050.
Not only is it a fantasy, but it's also not even necessary.
#ClimateScam
Sheer fantasy. Mineral extraction will have to increase 100x just to replace the transport sector with EVs. We are finished! The climate will spin into a hot house state this decade and nothing can be done about it. Furthermore, crop production will fall rapidly as fisheries become exhausted. Already fish are migrating to cooler waters as warmer oceans contain less O2. A nightmare scenario is now in gestation and will unfold incrementally in the coming decades as low lying fertile river basins are innundated and salinated. And even if we manage to replace a signif amt of power now provided by fossil fuels with "green" renewable energy, solar farms and windmills only last about 25 years. Then what? We are totally f&$#ed unless we reformulate our entire way of life. Industrial western civ is over. We either accept that fact and change rapidly or speed towards the cliff of ever increasing resource wars, famine, and annihilation of the biosphere.