IPA Director of Policy Gideon Rozner says the push for net zero emissions by 2050 will cause the loss of over 650,000 jobs according to a study conducted by the Institute of Public Affairs.

“Our research today shows we are putting over 600,000 jobs at rick, 300,000 of those are in agriculture alone, the rest of them are in mining, manufacturing, oil refinery,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

Mr Rozner says the job losses “will be contained not only to blue collar industries but to the regions” and they will impact whole communities.

“We aren’t just going to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs here, we’re going to lose entire communities.”