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one of which is this really fascinating company called sun cable. it is going to build an enormous solar farm in the northern territory, where it is desert. and then through undersea cables, send that electricity via indonesian waters to singapore because singapore, constrained by its geography, can t create solar farms like australia can. now, that project is being backed by an australian billionaire, andrew forrest, who is here because he made his billions in iron ore but who now wants to turn his company into a green hydrogen energy exporter. so there are a lot of people in australia who are seeing the opportunities, knowing that they can transform ther australian economy and not make australia poorer along the way. that question of opportunities, but also who pays for the transition, is a huge one for the business community, isn t it? yeah, i mean, one where the other every citizen i in the world will pay for this.
you can carry on with carbon, you can carry on building your economy on that, but it becomes harder and harder to find the carbon to burn to create the fossil fuels, and you are having to spend all that money mitigating the damaging environmental effects. is nobody making that case in the asia pacific political leadership or is itjust to political combustible? there is some optimism. one of the big shift that has happened in australia is centred around technology. you hear the australia prime minister say this all the time, technology not taxes. and what you have in australia is the business community now picking up this mantle for itself, taking on what it now is the future and looking around and saying, 0k. now we have some settled agreement politically about where this regulatory environment is going to take us, we can start to really plan for the future. sojust this week, for instance, there are two really interesting of many australian companies here in the uk and heading to
for dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme bringing together bbc specialists with the correspondents who write, blog and broadcast for audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week borisjohnson s finance minister opens the taxpayers purse as the prime minister himself tries to persuade world leaders to open theirs to mitigate climate change. plus, is famine stocking afghanistan? joining us to discuss all that is henry chu of the la times, who keeps the show on the road whilst the us west coast sleeps. latika bourke, columnist for the age and the sydney morning herald in australia. and here in the studio,