Quentin Bryce in high-powered group calling for coal power to be phased out

Quentin Bryce is calling for an expansion of
the national renewable energy target as part
of the decarbonisation of the market.

The former governor general Quentin Bryce is part of a high-powered group of academics, business leaders, financiers and energy providers urging the Turnbull government to extend and expand the national renewable energy target and create a market mechanism to govern an orderly phase out of coal-fired power in Australia.

Representatives of the group came to Canberra on Monday to meet the energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, armed with an eight-point plan to drive a sequenced decarbonisation of the national energy market.

The intervention follows weeks of political attacks by the Turnbull government on state-based renewable energy schemes and the government’s continuing refusal to say whether it will use a planned review of its Direct Action policy next year to overhaul an emissions reduction framework experts say is woefully inadequate.

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