We conduct public interest financial analysis on the most profound economic transformation since the industrial revolution: the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
About
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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INTERVIEW | National Party has abandoned Net Zero
The National Account
The National Party has abandoned Net Zero, attributing their decision to research done by their own party-affiliated think tank, the Page Research Centre. Read more
We asked consultants about their modelling, used by the Nationals to abandon Net Zero. Here’s what they said.
The National Account
Energy analyst Tim Buckley, a former long-time managing director at Citigroup who now runs Climate Energy Finance, said modelling is “exceptionally biased”. He said the modelling assumes coal plants run almost constantly [91%], despite global coal plants operating at half that rate. Buckley also said modelling ignores that in Australia power prices go negative a fifth of the time due to solar. Read more
Editor’s note: MEPs vote to slash sustainability rules
Sustainable Views
“The path forward to a more sustainable economic model is being driven by multiple factors that are increasingly aligned, irrespective of whether some cave into short-term vested interests thinking they can hold back the tide,” says Tim Buckley, founder of think-tank Climate Energy Finance. The WEO report wasn’t without controversy, however, with many commentators blasting the decision by the IEA to reintroduce a Current Policies scenario (in addition to a Stated Policies and Net Zero Emissions by 2050 scenario). Rumour has it the need to model what would happen if nothing changes was the result of US pressure. Read more
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