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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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
Business warns Cook’s 75pc green grid target leaves industry exposed
The Australian Financial Review
Western Australia will rely on major new wind projects to underpin an ambitious green energy target for its main power grid, but business has warned that the plan will not reduce power prices enough to save manufacturing and minerals processing in the state. Read more
MEDIA RELEASE | WA’S NEW 75% by 2031 RENEWABLE TARGET A HISTORIC STEP THAT MUST NOW BE MATCHED BY WORLD-LEADING MINING INDUSTRY
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“This is a strong, historic move forward for Western Australia – a floor, not a ceiling – and a meaningful signal to investors and industry, and we congratulate the WA government on this key step. If achieved, all coal generation will be replaced by renewables by 2030/31, and we will see a material decline in gas generation, critical progress in line with the climate science. In that light, it was great to visit one of the two massive BESS yesterday in the historic coal region of Collie WA – the two largest operating batteries in the world today. Read more
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