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Energy Insiders Podcast: Ross Garnaut and why Australia can be a renewable superpower

Leading economist and climate change policy expert Professor Ross Garnaut joins Energy Insiders to explain how Australia can reach 100 per cent renewables in little more than a decade, and then go further and be a renewable superpower.

Garnaut next week launches his new book: Superpower – Australia’s Low Carbon Opportunity.

You can find previous editions of the Energy Insiders Podcast here, or on your favourite podcast platform.

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Join Renew Economy founder and editor-in-chief Giles Parkinson and columnist and energy markets expert David Leitch as they discuss the week's main events - politics, solar and storage.

Energy Insiders Podcast

Join Renew Economy founder and editor-in-chief Giles Parkinson and columnist and energy markets expert David Leitch as they discuss the week's main events - politics, solar and storage.

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