Morrison government to stop funding international collaboration on shift to zero emissions

Exclusive: The five-year Australian-German initiative to transition to new energy and low emissions was due to end in 2022

The Morrison government has told researchers at two of Australia's leading universities it will break a commitment to fund an international collaboration into what is required to shift to a zero emissions future.

The Australian-German Energy Transition Hub was announced in 2017 by then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and German chancellor Angela Merkel as a collaboration that would "help the technical, economic and social transition to new energy systems and a low emissions economy".