Why Australia could benefit from engaging with China on clean energy

"Australia must recognise," the report says, "that there are many technologies necessary for the clean energy transition in which China's research and development efforts are world leading and that failure to co-operate closely with China in these areas will see Australia fall away from the climate technology frontier and miss significant opportunities for economic prosperity in the clean energy industrial transformation." And Australia's opportunity is to provide China with "raw and refined minerals, abundant clean energy resources and know-how to power China's own transition". At the outset, that's going to require regulatory and investment settings that are suitable for businesses….