MELBOURNE -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing pressure at home and abroad to ditch the country's opposition to nuclear energy to forge a sustainable transition to net-zero emissions by 2050.
A pledge by more than 20 countries to triple their nuclear capacity at the COP28 summit in Dubai this week has renewed debate about the role of nuclear energy in resource-rich Australia. French President Emmanuel Macron urged Australia to "lift the ban" on nuclear energy at the conference, declaring that it "is a source necessary to succeed for carbon neutrality in 2050."
