As South Australia now knows, local jobs must be a priority in the clean energy transition | Tom Morton

The shift to renewables in SA's Upper Spencer Gulf has been a social as well as technological process

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Future historians will no doubt remember 2020 as the year of Covid-19. But according to veteran climate campaigner Bill McKibben, they may also view it as a turning point, the year the world moved decisively towards the transition everyone knew we needed to make".

McKibben told the recent Global Smart Energy Summit 2020 has been a year of extraordinary convergence", from the images of Australia's bushfires, seen around the world on New Year's Day - like something out of Hieronymus Bosch" - to unprecedented developments such as China's commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2060, the EU's pledge to make its Green Deal and 100bn Just Transition Fund the centrepiece of post-Covid recovery, and the US $15tn divested from fossil fuels.