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Phase 2 of the Net Zero Australia Project (NZAu) has released its first Topical Report, Updated Net Zero Pathways for Australia.

The Report was launched at a public seminar on 24 September 2025, where members of the NZAu Project team discussed:

• the roles of renewables, energy storage, natural gas firming, carbon capture and storage and other, complementary technologies;
• the implications of technology build rates and other constraints on when we might achieve net zero;
• where we may need new electricity and gas transmission; and
• the estimated costs of net zero emissions, overall and disaggregated by residential, commercial and industrial energy users.

Download the Report and supporting documents:

• Topical Report #1, Updated Net Zero Pathways for Australia
• The Methods, Assumptions, Scenarios and Sensitivities (MASS) report, providing a complete statement of this Topical Report’s input assumptions and methods; and
• Datasheets, which contain all the data shown in the Topical Report’s graphs.

View the recording of the public event here.