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The Transforming Victoria: creating jobs while cutting emissions report aims to provide a pathway which outlines how the state could place itself on a sustainable footing while ensuring affected communities are not left behind in the transition to a low carbon future.
Key aspects of the report call for:
- Creating a Just Transition Authority and appointing a Minister for Transition
- Ensuring good, secure union jobs are created in the transition away from oil, coal, gas and native forest logging
- Ensuring sustained investment in the Latrobe Valley, including support for economic diversification, renewable energy and storage, and high tech manufacturing
- Ensuring better energy efficiency standards for new homes and buildings and continued retrofitting of existing housing stock
- Helping householders and businesses shift from relying on gas to 100% renewable energy
- Shifting funding away from mega road projects like the North East Link and into major public transport infrastructure like the Metro 2 tunnel
- Greatly expanding the public transport network
- Continuing to build trams, buses and trains locally
- Supporting a rapid transition away from coal to 100% renewable energy
- Committing to deep emission reduction targets
- Supporting public ownership of energy production and the electricity grid
- Supporting a not for profit, community owned electricity retailer
- Supporting ‘game changing’ renewable energy projects like the Star of the South offshore wind farm proposed for South Gippsland
- Ruling out further development of fossil fuel reserves
- Protecting native forests and redeploying affected workers
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