We conduct public interest financial analysis on the most profound economic transformation since the industrial revolution: the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
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Climate Energy Finance (CEF) is a think tank established in 2022 that works probono in the public interest to accelerate decarbonisation. We conduct research and analyses on global financial issues related to the global energy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, as well as the implications for the Australian economy, with a key focus on the threats and opportunities for Australian investments and exports. Read more
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REPORT | THE UNDERSTANDING GAP: Why important ideas struggle to reach the people who need them
Leaders working on complex societal and environmental challenges are being asked to communicate in an environment that is becoming harder to navigate. The issues themselves are monumental. The pace of change is faster. Audiences are more distracted, more sceptical and exposed to more information than at any point before. Trust in institutions is harder won and more easily lost. At the same time, the people responsible for explaining these issues are being asked to make highly complex ideas understandable to audiences with less time, less patience and very different levels of knowledge. Read more
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Data centre developers blindsided by proposed catch-all energy rules
Capital Brief
Think tank Climate Energy Finance director Tim Buckley said each dollar of data centre investment typically requires an additional dollar of investment in energy infrastructure to meet the facility’s energy needs. This would likely mean billions of dollars of new investment. “If you’re talking a one-gigawatt project, then you’re going to need three gigawatts of wind and solar because obviously they only run 30-35% of the time, you’re going to have behind the meter energy storage, and then you’re going to need a bit more grid investment,” Buckley said. Read more
Think tank urges Pilbara emissions push
ABC News
A climate think tank says WA’s emissions reduction plans must go further to decarbonise the Pilbara, the state’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. The state government yesterday committed to a 75 per cent renewable energy target for WA’s main electricity grid, the South West Interconnected System, by 2031. Read more
Energy advocates in favour of Labor’s Renewable Energy Target
WAMN News Online
Climate Energy Finance’s Tim Buckley has also expressed enthusiasm for the next move towards renewables, however, he also noted the importance of Australia’s world-leading mining industry, saying that mining majors should be supported to “collectively work towards an electrification and decarbonisation Common User Infrastructure strategy for the Pilbara.” He added that this should be done while “leveraging the clean energy supply chains of our key North Asian trade partners and building bilateral agreements in support of this key and overdue industry pivot.” Read more
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