Australia should “go for what’s smart by going big” on net zero, a senior climate change official from the UN said today, urging the country to accelerate its energy transition plans. “Don’t settle for what’s easy. Bog standard is beneath you,” Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said at an event in Sydney, as quoted by Reuters. Australia’s current government is strongly pro-transition and has encouraged the buildout of wind and solar generation capacity…