Latrobe Valley coal community already looking to future as COP26 delegates discuss end of fossil fuel

It is 17,335 kilometres from Glasgow to the brown-coal-powered electricity generators of Morwell in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. Chief executive Karen Cain said with its strong networks and relationships, her local team had helped the process along with "latitude" to try unproven things. G7 agrees to stop financing fossil fuel projects Photo shows Coal train The world's seven largest advanced economies agree to stop international financing of coal projects that emit carbon. Mr Barfoot now helps build community-based energy projects like solar panels at Neerim South's hospital, battery systems at the Lucknow Football Club and a small solar farm in remote Mallacoota "I think the future here is wonderful," he said. "Change is always hard to come to grips with, especially for an area like the Latrobe Valley, which has relied on a single industry for such a long time," she said.