Australian software giant Atlassian’s co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes is a self-confessed “energy nerd” who is putting his money where his mouth is in backing renewable power.
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This ad series profiled workers of the zero-emissions economy (for example, “Kara works as an electrician in Newcastle at Moly-Cop making steel with clean energy in her local community”). Along with editorial coverage, this week-long campaign reached 4 million Daily Telegraph readers during the paper’s annual Bush Summit.
The British government has launched a £2 billion ($3.65 billion) grant scheme to allow home owners and landlords to retrofit their houses for greater energy efficiency, prompting calls for a similar scheme in Australia.
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Tech billionaire and climate warrior Mike Cannon-Brookes says there has never been a more compelling time for Australia to adopt clean energy and he believes Canberra is starting to listen.
We are in one of the most challenging periods in Australia’s history, facing a future of high unemployment and economic uncertainty. But what if we had a clear plan for how Australia can come out of this crisis with 1.8 million new jobs across the nation, and more than 50,000 jobs in the Hunter Region alone over the next five years?
Beyond Zero Emissions’ Chairman Eytan Lenko describes the competitive advantage that solar energy could provide to Australian manufacturing, as laid out in the think tank’s Million Jobs Plan.
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Former Macquarie chairman Kevin McCann discusses the proposals put forth in Beyond Zero Emissions’ Million jobs Plan in an interview with ABC’s The Business. McCann praised the broad scope of the plan, highlighting electric vehicles and renewable energy as the most promising projects.
Australia could create a million new jobs through backing renewable energy with new transmission lines and the creation of a new manufacturing industry, according to a report to be released on Monday by Beyond Zero Emissions.
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