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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OP ED | NSW cannot legislate away the climate cost of its coal
Pearls & Irritations
This month, in a landmark ruling, the High Court upheld the NSW Court of Appeal’s invalidation of approval for extension of MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coal mine in the NSW Hunter Valley. This extension would have doubled the mine’s production to 21 million tonnes a year, producing a total of 870 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, roughly twice Australia’s annual emissions. Yet another massive Australian-supplied climate bomb as the world hurtles towards climate catastrophe. Read more
WA government seeks clarity from coal miner as operations set to wind back
ABC News
Energy analyst Tim Buckley, from Climate Energy Finance, said the night operations shutdown would not cause rolling blackouts. Read more
Australia bets on solar-powered green iron as China’s appetite for imports wanes
PV Tech
That marks a change from two years ago. In its 2024 financial results, Fortescue named China a “core market” and pointed to the country’s “insatiable demand for green products” as it set out plans for an integrated Australia-China green metals supply chain. Other voices in the sector shared that view. Tim Buckley, director of Climate Energy Finance, told PV Tech Premium last year that “the single biggest opportunity for Australia is to enhance and pivot our relationship with China”, arguing that exporting green iron instead of raw ore would also diversify the mining workforce. Read more
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