Roger Cook is predicting enormous job opportunity for WA as he bets big on “evolving” technology to solve Asia’s carbon problem and keep the State’s resources industry booming.

The WA Premier is wrapping up a week-long visit to China and Japan, where he backed hydrogen and carbon storage as crucial steps towards net zero.

“In Japan, they’re already moving into the future by incorporating (hydrogen) into their existing infrastructure and products, and are really charging ahead with it as a renewable energy fuel into the future,” he said.

“It really underscores, for me, just how important a role Western Australia will play to assist the Japanese economy to decarbonise, obviously through renewable energy, but also through carbon capture and storage.

“We’re going to need every tool at our

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