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That there is an opportunity, there is no doubt. Tim Buckley, director of think tank Climate Energy Finance and a former managing director of Citigroup, he tells me there is $US4 trillion-$6 trillion ($6.1 trillion-$9.1 trillion) annually of global investment capital looking to find a home in the world’s clean energy and decarbonisation revolution. But he says, in the face of the US Inflation Reduction Act and the direct stimulation and support that is providing for clean energy investment and the reinvigoration of manufacturing capacity there, “Australia can’t rely on the traditional notion of free markets in international trade and competition”. Read more

limate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley says the Prime Minister’s Future Made in Australia Act requires a “whole of government” approach without “overriding environmental consideration”. This comes amid criticism that the investment into renewables has plateaued and it’s the wrong time to be putting all our eggs in one basket. Mr Buckley said there are many renewable energy projects in the investor cue “waiting for the right government policy ambition”. “That’s what we’re getting today,” he told Sky News Australia. He also pointed out Australia needs to leverage its trading resources and “help our major Asian trading partners decarbonize their economy”. “It’s about working collaboratively. “This actually really expands Australia’s opportunity investment set.” Read more

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will unveil the “Future Made in Australia Act” to help compete with global partners who are providing massive subsidies to new industries, according to an advance copy of his speech. The act, to be passed this year, would mark a departure from Australia’s decades-old free market policies on trade and investment. “We need to be willing to break with old orthodoxies and pull new levers to advance the national interest,” the centre-left Labor Party prime minister will say. Read more

Mining superpower Australia on Thursday announced a US-style scheme to pour public money into manufacturing and clean energy industries, joining the global race to build a cleaner and more resilient economy.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled the “Future Made in Australia Act” to help compete with global partners who are providing massive subsidies to new industries. The act, to be discussed by parliament this year, would mark a departure from Australia’s decades-old free market policies on trade and investment. “We need to be willing to break with old orthodoxies and pull new levers to advance the national interest,” the centre-left Labor Party prime minister said. Read more

Tim Buckley, director of independent public interest think tank Climate Energy Finance, said the act would lay the foundations to make Australia a zero-emissions trade and investment leader and global clean energy “superpower”. About 27 percent of the Australian economic output came from exports to international partners and this new act would have flow-on effects and help them decarbonise as well, Buckley told AFP. “State intervention is the new competition. We can’t afford to ‘sit it out’. The Future Made In Australia Act puts Australia into the global race. It is the investment signal and de-risking private capital needs,” he said. But he said greater details were needed to ensure that local, state and federal governments worked together on ensuring the act was rolled out smoothly. Read more

In practice a production tax credit would generate a tax credit of perhaps 10 per cent, which could be offset against a company’s tax bill for qualifying downstream processing activities, or received as cash if the company was not generating profits. The head of the Climate Energy Finance think tank, former Citigroup managing director Tim Buckley said the government’s assertion that state intervention “is the new competition’’ was correct. “We can’t afford to ‘sit it out’,’’ Mr Buckley said. Read more

We need to get on the bandwagon or get left behind. The transition is happening. The world is moving on. If we don’t move with everyone, Australia will languish and stagnate. So what’s in this plan? Founder and director of Climate Energy Finance Tim Buckley is here. G’day, Tim. Good afternoon Jake. So how would you describe this plan in simple terms? This plan. is definitely Australia’s uniquely Australian response to the US Inflation Reduction Act. Without doubt. Read more

Great news today as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces the Future Made in Australia Act, designed to deliver a uniquely Australian Response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which is turbocharging renewables, cleantech and reindustrialisation in the US as it mobilises massive private capital investment. To date, the Big 4 have established $385bn (and growing) worth of sustainable finance targets (SFT) that are, in part, aimed at contributing to climate change mitigation. It will be up to the banks to align their capital allocation and reporting to the new taxonomy from FY2025 and, crucially, to prioritise financing that achieves the objectives of the new Act. Read more

Syndicated across News Corp mastheads. The head of the Climate Energy Finance think tank, former Citigroup managing director Tim Buckley said the government’s assertion that state intervention “is the new competition’’ was correct. “We can’t afford to ‘sit it out’,’’ Mr Buckley said. “The Koreans, Japanese, EU, Indian and Canadian governments have all responded at scale to the massive once in a century challenge and opportunity of global decarbonisation with huge strategic public funding programs. “The ‘Future Made in Australia Act’ puts Australia into the global race already underway. “Public capital is the investment signal and de-risking that private capital needs to flood into domestic zero-emissions economic opportunities.’’ Read more

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled the “Future Made in Australia Act” to help compete with global partners who are providing massive subsidies to new industries. The act, to be discussed by parliament this year, would mark a departure from Australia’s decades-old free market policies on trade and investment. Tim Buckley, director of independent public interest think tank Climate Energy Finance, said the act would lay the foundations to make Australia a zero-emissions trade and investment leader and global clean energy “superpower”. About 27 percent of the Australian economic output came from exports to international partners and this new act would have flow-on effects and help them decarbonise as well, Buckley told AFP. “State intervention is the new competition. We can’t afford to ‘sit it out’. The Future Made In Australia Act puts Australia into the global race. It is the investment signal and de-risking private capital needs,” he said. Read more

As Yellen laid out plans to formalise dialogue with China over excess industrial capacity in electric vehicles (EVs), solar panels and batteries, saying Washington would not accept U.S. industry being “decimated”, the Chinese finance ministry issued a statement saying it had already “fully responded” to her concerns. One industry where global demand does not keep up with Chinese production, though, is solar. Xuyang Dong, China energy policy analyst at Climate Energy Finance in Sydney, estimates China’s wafer, cell and module capacity coming online in 2024 is sufficient to meet annual global demand now through to 2032. Read more

In 2023, China’s exports of the “new three” totalled 1.06 trillion yuan ($146.6 billion), up 29.9% year-on-year, official data showed. But they accounted for only 4.5% of China’s total yuan-denominated exports last year, so those on Beijing’s side of the debate see the West’s focus on them as hypocritical. Xuyang Dong, China energy policy analyst at Climate Energy Finance in Sydney, estimates China’s wafer, cell and module capacity coming online in 2024 is sufficient to meet annual global demand now through to 2032. (This is also republished on Business World) Read more