This consultation paper is the first under Blueprint Institute’s new energy policy initiative - Powering the next boom. It sets out the decarbonisation challenge Australia faces in the decades ahead, and how we might confront it.

Under this initiative, the Blueprint Institute will produce research and analysis on priority reform areas to help get Australia on a path to net-zero emissions. They recently hosted a series of expert roundtables to discuss our research agenda, with an earlier draft of this paper forming the basis of those discussions.