A new report from Australia’s Climate Council this week unveiled the daunting reality that the country will need to reduce emissions by 75% this decade and reach net zero emissions by 2035 if it wants to prevent the devastating consequences of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. While individual states and private companies plow ahead with renewable deployment, the national government appears to be the final bottleneck before a rapid transformation of the country’s industries and exports can take place. If it fails, the economic damage caused by heatwaves, droughts, bushfires and extreme rains will be untold. Of the world’s major economies, Australia is currently the second largest polluter per capita – only marginally behind the USA – and…