We conduct public interest financial analysis on the most profound economic transformation since the industrial revolution: the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

Tim Buckley, director of think tank Climate Energy Finance and a former managing director of global investment bank Citigroup, said “this iteration of the Coalition’s energy policy pamphlet belongs in the bin fire with every previous iteration”. “This will make the 2028 federal election yet another referendum on whether Australia will stay in alignment with the global consensus of the Paris Agreement and the climate science,” Buckley said. Read more

For Tim Buckley, Director of Climate Energy Finance, community engagement is not a box to tick at the end of a project. It is fundamental to overcoming the approval barriers that are currently slowing investment in Australia’s renewable energy infrastructure. “Building social licence is critical to reducing the approvals roadblocks that are massively undermining the much-needed step-up in renewable energy infrastructure investments across Australia,” Buckley says. For Buckley, the case for accelerating the transition has become even stronger as global geopolitical instability highlights the importance of energy independence. Read more

Think tank Climate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley said the “moribund joke of an energy policy” would derail considerable progress made on transitioning Australia to clean, cheap, reliable, firmed renewables and destroy the momentum on EV take-up, “This climate science denialism and fossil fuel lobby capture creates sovereign risk for Australia by massively increasing investor risks,” Buckley said. “Policy uncertainty, such as dumping net zero, reduces capital investment in our country, with less investment in our energy system in turn reducing new energy supply and raising energy costs for consumers and industry. And all to pander to the vested self-interests in the US administration.” Read more