Climate trigger, carbon levy on Twiggy's wish list

THREE POLICY PITCHES

* A climate trigger that takes climate change and the carbon pollution impact into account in any project approval

* A commitment to more investment in wind and solar, firmed with pumped hydro, batteries and and gas, and less fossil fuels

* A carbon solutions levy on fossil fuel extraction sites and imports

KEY QUOTES

* "Fossil fuel companies pay almost no tax, they concentrate enormous profits - mostly offshore - and they're standing in the road of Australia's opportunity to become that fabled green energy global contributor."

* "How hopeless is it that a politician says 'I want to wait for new technology in 20 years time, that may never happen'. It's just an excuse for doing nothing." - on politicians supportive of nuclear as part of the energy mix.

* "Misinformed, unscientific, uneconomic, plucked-out-of-thin-air bulldust of nuclear policies, of politicians masquerading as leaders, helps no one."

* "When you employ 22,000 people, when you go from a fossil fuel burning country to a green energy company, you're gonna lose people who say 'what are you doing?' So lots of people think that's not for them and I think that's completely fine." - on high profile executive exits from Fortescue, the company he founded and is chairman

* "What I know is happening now in North America is this stonking great economic engine called the Inflation Reduction Act is bringing in investment at a rate which United States has not seen for decades, turning itself into a new green energy engine."

* "When I hear a business person talking against the greatest economic engine they have seen in decades, then I'd be really surprised." - on the possibility of Donald Trump overturning the act if elected as US president

* "If we continue delaying, obfuscating, bringing up talking points instead of policy to save our country. No, that's the risk." - on Australia meeting its emission reduction target of 43 per cent by 2030

Australian Associated Press