27/07/2025
"Scope 3 emissions" - where all the biggest savings are to be made, but nobody's looking! Two weeks ago we started the conversation at www.iput.au/lac, have since submitted a "Coal Harm Minimisation" Method to the Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, and contemplating ways to achieve real action on this low-hanging-fruit option.
Whilst we need the Uni (www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/nier) to validate it, the evidence thus far says that just doing harm minimisation on coal is Australia's entire 2030 reduction commitment met, so everything else is a bonus. We have the opportunity to go into gross-overperformance mode here, but we need just a little govt support to kick it off ($M10) and engage on appropriate legislative guardrails.
Many of us have been very happy to take the wins of coal, being the cheap natural organic energy and steelmaking resource that has massively uplifted the quality of life for billions of human beings on the planet. And is still being used extensively by 'first world' nations, with the many more that
