Australian coal jobs doomed

Advertisement

EY Australia has a new report out on the prospects for Aussie cola over the next three decades and the news is good:

  • Two-thirds of jobs will be lost.
  • Under an orderly scenario, fossil fuel demand falls 42% globally by 2040.
  • Under the disorderly scenario, which delays action until after 2030, fossil fuel demand collapses 70% to 2050 in a policy panic.

Doubtless, Australia and the world will take the worst of the two paths.

The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers

$1 for your first month, then:
Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe
About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.