據油氣新聞9月23日消息稱，澳大利亞能源部長周一表示，該國計劃在未來10年投資180億澳元(合130億美元)用于研發減少碳排放的技術，以應對氣候變化。

能源部長安格斯·泰勒表示，政府將重點投資于氫、能源儲存、低碳鋼和鋁、碳捕獲和儲存以及土壤碳封存等領域，并制定了這些技術的成本目標。

截至2019年底，該國已經完成了《巴黎氣候協定》承諾的一半目標，即到2030年在2005年的基礎上減排26%至28%。

根據周一發布的摘錄，泰勒將于周二在堪培拉發表演講時說：“澳大利亞不能也不應該為了減排而損害本國經濟。”

該計劃旨在將電池存儲成本降低至每兆瓦時100澳元以下，將碳捕獲和存儲成本降至每噸20澳元以下，并將土壤中碳的測量成本降低到每年每公頃3澳元以下，以鼓勵農民改變他們的土地管理方式。

就低排放鋼鐵生產而言，其目標是將成本降至每噸900澳元以下，而綠色鋁的成本則削減至每噸2700澳元以下。

曹海斌 摘譯自 油氣新聞

原文如下：

Australia to invest $13 billion in energy technology to cut emissions

Australia plans to invest A$18 billion ($13 billion) over the next 10 years in technologies to cut carbon emissions in the fight against climate change, the country’s energy minister said on Monday.

The government will focus on investing in hydrogen, energy storage, low carbon steel and aluminium, carbon capture and storage, and carbon sequestration in soil, with cost targets for those technologies, Energy Minister Angus Taylor said.

At the end of 2019, the country was half way to meeting its Paris climate accord commitment to cut emissions by 26% to 28% from its 2005 level by 2030.

“Australia can’t and shouldn’t damage its economy to reduce emissions,” Taylor was set to say in a speech in Canberra on Tuesday, according to excerpts released on Monday.

The plan seeks to cut the cost of battery storage to less than A$100 per megawatt hour, lower the cost of carbon capture and storage to less than A$20 per tonne, and reduce the cost of measuring carbon in soil to less than A$3 per hectare per year to encourage farmers to change their land management practices.

For low emissions steel production, the goal is to cut costs to less than A$900 per tonne and for green aluminium to less than A$2,700 per tonne.