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ANALYSIS | Key critical minerals projects: A $10bn investment pipeline in onshore refining
In paper #3 in a series on critical minerals, Tim Buckley and Matt Pollard document 8 key onshore refining projects in Australia exemplifying the momentum of the energy transition and capital shifts. Read more
ANALYSIS | Australia’s once in a generation lithium opportunity
In paper #2 in a CEF series on critical minerals, Tim Buckley and Matthew Pollard review Australia’s world-leading lithium reserves and the scope for value-adding onshore. Read more
ANALYSIS | More than a quarry: The growing investment into value-adding critical minerals mining in Australia
Critical minerals are key to the accelerating global energy transition and Australia is in pole position. CEF’s Tim Buckley and Matthew Pollard review the opportunities the boom presents and some key developments, in paper #1 of a series on this topic. Read more
ABC TV’s The Business
Elysse Morgan interviews Tim Buckley on CEF’s Windfall Profits report and the case for fossil fuel tax reform, which CEF analysis shows would net $322bn over 10 years. Read more
COMMENT | Now the race begins
The Australian Government has rejoined the global fight against the climate crisis, legislating a 43% emissions cut by 2030. Read more
Time to act: Green finance is key to achieving climate action at the scale needed
In this video presentation to the Doctors for the Environment 2022 national conference, CEF director Tim Buckley details how green […] Read more
ANALYSIS | China’s global energy transition leadership
As Tim Buckley writes, China is leading the world by scaling up zero emissions industries of the future – RE, hydro power, smart grid integration, batteries, EVs, and most recently green hydrogen. In line with President Xi Jinping’s ‘Net Zero Emissions before 2060’ pledge, enormous progress has been made, but with climate impacts accelerating, ambition needs to be lifted. Read more
Sky Regional Breakfast
Tim Buckley elaborates the key tax and royalty policy changes needed to ensure fossil fuel producers pay their fair share for exploiting Australians’ assets – reform which would deliver over $300bn to the budget bottom line over 10 years. Read more
SKY News Afternoon Agenda with Kieran Gilbert
Tim Buckley says 22 million Australians on the east coast are wearing the price-shock impacts of fossil fuel producers’ war profiteering and the federal failure to reserve our sovereign gas for Australian consumers. Read more
REPORT | Windfall profits: Time to fix loopholes & subsidies to serve Australians better
CEF analysis finds that introducing an equitable multinational corporate tax and progressive royalty regime on Australia’s fossil fuels could contribute $322bn over 10 years. Read more
Investing During the Energy Transition
Tim Buckley’s presentation to the Investment Innovation Institute (i3). Read more
The Global Energy Transition: An India perspective
Tim Buckley’s presentation to the Institution of Engineers (India) June 2022 Forum, where he speaks to India’s world leading ambition for 450GW of renewable energy by 2030 in the context of global decarbonisation. Read more