Climate holdout Japan drove Australia’s LNG boom. Could the partnership go green?

  • Written by: Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Climate holdout Japan drove Australia’s LNG boom. Could the partnership go green?Sakarin Sawasdinaka/Shutterstock

Without funding from Japan, many of Australia’s gas projects wouldn’t have gone ahead. Massive public loans from Japanese taxpayers are propping up Australia’s now-enormous fossil gas industry. Japan is also becoming a major gas trader and today exports more gas to other countries than it imports...

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