Australia’s leading engineers and technologists call for net zero by 2035.

Becoming a Net Zero Nation

Climate change

Position Statement

Becoming a Net Zero Nation

Published September 2023

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The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has today called on the Federal Government to commit to an ambitious target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

The organisation, representing nearly 900 of Australia’s most distinguished engineers and applied scientists, has stated in a new position statement, that immediate, substantial and concerted action is needed to rescue the diminishing window of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Read the full ATSE media release