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Media Releases  |  May 15, 2025

Why China’s cash-rich battery king needs a blockbuster share sale

The Financial Times

However, Tim Buckley, director of Climate Energy Finance, a Sydney think-tank, noted that few Chinese cleantech companies would be as attractive to international investors. “CATL is an exception; even as they’ve delivered very strong growth, they’ve also delivered good profit margins,” he said, adding: “For the solar, wind and lithium companies . . . profit is one of the least important drivers.” Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 14, 2025

Consumers want to get off gas but there’s a mighty battle under way

Fifth Estate

Tim Buckley was not impressed. After a scandalous article appeared in the financial press citing the Clean Energy Council’s apparent embrace of methane gas as a “transition fuel” Buckley, who bows to no fossil fuellers and is one of the transition industry’s most respected commentators, called it “bizarre”. Methane does play an important role in electricity system firming, but its role is small and declining, and the battery disruption will only accelerate this ongoing decline. Read more
CEF in the media  |  May 12, 2025

How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution

The Financial Times

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
CEF in the media  |  May 9, 2025

Sustainable Population Australia Newsletter on will there be enough renewable energy

Sustainable Population Australia

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
Media Releases  |  May 8, 2025

Thirteen things on Labor’s climate and energy must-do list to change the system

Pearls & Irritations

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
CEF in the media  |  May 6, 2025

Thirteen things on Labor’s climate and energy must-do list to change the system

Renew Economy

“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
CEF in the media  |  May 6, 2025

Nuclear dead, ambitious energy transformation mandate alive and well

Canberra Times

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
CEF in the media  |  May 5, 2025

Australian clean energy leaders urge Albanese to speed up renewables push

PV Magazine

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
CEF in the media  |  May 4, 2025

Stunning repudiation of nuclear frolic

The Energy

“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
CEF in the media  |  May 4, 2025

Australia lays out red carpet for rapid green energy transition. Can Labor seize the moment?

Renew Economy

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
Media Releases  |  May 4, 2025

INTERVIEW | Trump on climate policies with Alicia Barry on ABC Close of Business

ABC News

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
CEF in the media  |  May 1, 2025

The nuclear plan is way more expensive than Dutton says – here’s why

Fifth Estate

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
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