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CEF in the media  |  Podcasts  |  Jun 22, 2025

PODCAST | Tim & Grant McDowell on Spark Club: Australia Needs More Wind Energy

Spark Club Podcast

The Highlights * Tim’s TED X Sydney * Net-Zero Export Target Proposal: ANU’s Frank Jotzo and Annette Zou * Heavy Equipment Decarbonisation: BHP signs MoU with China’s XCMG * China’s Cleantech Outbound Investment (OFDI): China building cleantech infrastructure abroad (e.g., 10GWh EV battery plant in France for Renault). $170B tracked in cleantech OFDI since 2023 Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 18, 2025

OP ED | I’ve seen the energy future and it’s in China, and Australia must ditch its distrust and collaborate

Renew Economy

On a recent delegation, I saw the futuristic factory of solar giant Longi in Jiaxing, with its omnipresent robots, combining automation, big data, AI and 5G to flexibly customise solar module components for diverse application scenarios and customers, revolutionising advanced manufacturing at massive scale. This is not an isolated case. China leads the world by a huge and growing margin across almost all of the frontiers of our decarbonised future, from sophisticated clean tech manufacturing to domestic renewable energy installations to foreign direct investment into the energy transition. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 18, 2025

INTERVIEW | ABC Illawarra with Jake Cupitt

ABC Illawarra

Electricity prices in South East Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales are set to rise from 1 July, with NSW seeing an 8–10% increase under the Default Market Offer (DMO). Some providers, such as Momentum Energy, are raising rates by up to 25%. Energy Minister Chris Bowen will today announce a review of the DMO, aiming to prioritise public interest over energy company profits. Tim Buckley, Director of Climate Energy Finance, criticised the current system, urging consumers to shop around annually to avoid a “loyalty tax”. While reforms are expected next year, households will face higher prices in the meantime. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 17, 2025

OP ED | Global chances to improve energy security and drive sustainable growth

CGTN

Electrification and decarbonization are key global themes in 2025, as are rapidly changing geopolitical circumstances. While some countries are abrogating their global commitments to act on climate science while upending world trade, there is also a growing interest in re-aligning towards countries and regions keen to pursue enhanced cooperation and collaboration. As the environmental and economic costs of climate change continue to rise, both the economics and energy independence benefits of the 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP28) pledge by almost 200 countries back in 2023 to triple renewable energy deployments by 2030 looks more and more strategically compelling Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 16, 2025

ROLLING BLOG: Abu Dhabi-based consortium launches $32b takeover tilt for Santos

Energy News Bulletin

Not in Australia’s national interest Tim Buckley, the director of Climate Energy Finance, asks: “How is a takeover of Santos by a state owned enterprise in the Middle East remotely in Australia’s national interest? “Abu Dhabi National Oil Company controlling Australia’s second largest methane gas producer and exporter? Enabling the Santos CEO to extract a fat takeover premium as he sales off into retirement? Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 11, 2025

The good and the bad news on clean energy

The Energy

Tim’s Expert view published on The Energy Co: “Australia is absolutely walking both sides of the street, as we saw with the Albanese government’s approval of a 40 year extension on the North West Shelf gas processing plant. We are still a major, top three fossil fuel exporter. The incumbent industry is still very powerful politically in Australia, and that undermines Australia’s long term strategic national interest, in my view. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 10, 2025

Australia urged to lead regional carbon tariff initiative in Asian CBAM

Reccessary

On June 5, CEF released a report arguing that carbon pricing is the most cost-effective tool for decarbonizing the global economy. Implementing CBAM targeting key industrial commodities—such as steel, cement, and aluminum—would restore carbon markets, support global emissions reductions, mitigate climate risks, and redirect capital away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy and green industrial products. The report found that carbon pricing mechanisms are becoming increasingly common in the Asia-Pacific region, with 17 national or subnational systems currently in operation, including China’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 6, 2025

Asian carbon border levy the ‘lowest-cost pathway’ to decarbonise heavy industries: report

Eco-Business

As the European Union (EU)’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) comes into effect amid the global tariff wars, a new report is calling for Asia to enact its own carbon border levy to ease the public cost of decarbonising the region’s heavy industries. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 6, 2025

CEF calls for carbon tariffs as fossil industries face ‘terminal’ decline

Accounting Times

Independent think tank Clean Energy Finance (CEF) has called on the Australian government to lead the charge towards a cross-border carbon pricing framework across the Asia-Pacific region, after Energy Minister Chris Bowen signalled an openness to carbon tariffs. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 5, 2025

Carbon tariffs on some imports urgently needed: Climate Energy Finance

FS Sustainability

Despite the raging global trade war, Climate Energy Finance (CEF) is calling for carbon tariffs on some imports and for Australia to lead the way for a regional Asian carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). CEF argues in its new report A price on carbon: Building towards an Asian carbon border adjustment mechanism that carbon border tariffs in international trade are urgently needed to put a price on the carbon emissions embedded in the production of industrial commodities such as iron and steel, aluminium and cement, which make up 15% of global emissions. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 5, 2025

Australian think tank makes case for Asian CBAM to drive green manufacturing

Carbon Pulse

A pan-Asia Pacific carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) taking in the wealthiest industrial nations covering steel, cement, and aluminium is the best and cheapest way to reduce emissions from these hard-to-abate sectors while preserving margins and industries, an Australian think tank argued in a report Thursday. Read more
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