According to corporate announcements and financial statements compiled by Climate Energy Finance, a Sydney-based research group, Chinese companies have, since the start of 2023, committed $156bn in outbound foreign direct investment across more than 200 clean technology transactions. This effort is expanding Beijing’s political and economic influence globally just as the Trump administration pursues a hard decoupling from Chinese supply chains and roils global trade Read more

At the public meeting organised by SPA on 26 April, Tim Buckley, director of Climate Energy Finance (CEF), made the following points: – CEF acts on the basis of climate science, and the last 11 years were the warmest on record – The world invested US$2.1 trillion in cleantech in 2024, over 11% year on year – The boom in solar and wind pushed the world past 40% clean electricity in 2024 Read more

Republished from RENEW ECONOMY, 7 May 2025 Tim Buckley, from Climate Energy Finance, says that with Labor returned to government, it is time to “grasp this moment of policy certainty” and use it to build investor confidence, crowding-in domestic and foreign financial capital at scale to underpin our transition. Read more

“Without customers, suppliers and governments working together to a common time-frame, these projects aren’t going to get built, and that’s why we’ve seen so many announcements in the press of companies going bankrupt because they can’t do the capital raising anymore, or projects being slowed right down” Read more

The LNP’s nuclear furphy is dead, buried and cremated. Now is the time for conviction and courage to double down and move at the speed the climate science dictates, seizing the magnitude of opportunities ahead for Australia on energy transition, domestic and export. Read more

Australia’s renewable energy sector has urged the re-elected government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to step up the renewables energy transition after it secured a convincing majority in the federal election. Albanese will lead a majority Labor government in a second term after a thumping election win on the weekend. Read more

“The LNP’s nuclear furphy is dead, buried and cremated,” according to Climate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley. Buckley said Australia needed to accelerate to 82 per cent renewables by 2030 and 95 per cent by 2035 by leveraging and optimising the existing grid and upscaling the battery rollout. Read more

The thumping victory to Labor, unimaginable just months ago, or even while chomping on the democracy sausage on Saturday afternoon, means that the Australian federal government now has a clear mandate to do something great – accelerate the transition to renewables and get really serious about climate targets. Read more

Tim Buckley says the Trump administration has badly damaged U.S. climate policies and scared off clean energy investors. He warns this could hurt America for a long time, especially as China races ahead in clean energy like solar, wind, batteries, and electric cars. Other countries, like Pakistan and South Africa, are also making big progress. Read more

Not only do experts suspect that the nuclear energy plan by the coalition will cost far more than anticipated by analysis released last week by think tank Climate Energy Finance (CEF) has found that the plan will also “hollow out” the nation with “higher energy costs, unabated carbon pollution and trillions of dollars in lost GDP.” Read more

The Albanese government’s goal for renewable energy to reach 82 per cent of the grid by 2030 is back within striking distance thanks to a surge of investment in 2024. The government made an election promise to provide incentives for uptake of household batteries, a policy that will particularly benefit the 40 per cent of home owners in outer suburbs and regional towns with rooftop solar. Read more

There’s a big debate in Australia about nuclear power. The Liberal-National Coalition says it’s key to cutting carbon and electricity costs, and estimates it will cost $331 billion. The Labor Party disagrees, saying it would cost closer to $600 billion. An independent group, Climate Energy Finance, thinks it could cost as much as $4.3 trillion. Read more