Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced Australia’s plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050, ahead of the 2021 United Nations (U.N.) Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. This comes after international pressure, including from current and past U.N. officials, who have demanded that Australia reduce emissions and cut coal use. Morrison also pledged that regional Australia—where key resource, energy, and primary industries underpin the nation’s economy—would not take the brunt of a strong commitment to net zero that will see a monumental shift in how businesses will be required to operate. “Australians want action on climate change,” Morrison said in a media release. “But they also don’t want their electricity bills to skyrocket, the lights to go off, for their jobs to be put at risk or for the way of life in rural and regional communities to be sacrificed.” Morrison said the government had developed a pivotal …