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 | A Strategy for Whyalla: Enabling the Transformation and Decarbonisation of the Steelworks
Leveraging targeted industry and climate policy to support a first-of-a-kind capital deployment into green iron production in the Australian context. Read more
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Energy Insiders Podcast: Where the bloody hell is our super?
Renew Economy
Australia has more than $4 trillion in retirement savings but little of this finds its way to clean energy. Strategist Jeremy Cooper has an idea to fix this. Plus: The Super battery’s not so super moment, and a rush of new projects. Read more
Report warning: Gas-led Whyalla Steelworks transition a $2bn taxpayer ‘Santos subsidy’
InDaily South Australia
A new report warns that a gas-led transition for the Whyalla Steelworks could benefit South Australian oil and gas giant Santos with billions of dollars in taxpayer funds. Think tank Climate Energy Finance warned a gas-powered transition for the Whyalla Steelworks, rather than a push towards green iron and steel, would “be a grave strategic misstep” for the state and nation in a new report. Read more
‘Significant misstep’ over Whyalla
The Energy
Locking in a gas-fired future at the Whyalla Steelworks would undermine Australia’s emerging green iron industry, according to a report by think tank Climate Energy Finance. BlueScope Steel (ASX: BSL) is heading up an international consortium with Nippon Steel Corporation, India’s JSW Steel and South Korea’s POSCO, with the steelmakers eyeing Whyalla as a prospective location for future production of “lower-emissions iron” in Australia for both domestic and export markets. But it is Santos (ASX: STO), as gas supplier to Whyalla, that would be the principal beneficiary of government subsidies, the report found. Read more
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