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CEF in the media  |  Apr 14, 2023

What will happen when the Liddell power station closes

The Sydney Morning Herald

Demolition will represent the end of an era in the Hunter region. The power station’s closure also holds great national significance as a blueprint to what the future could hold for Australia’s remaining 18 coal-fired power stations. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Nov 19, 2022

Inside Mike Cannon-Brookes AGL coup

The Saturday Paper

Tim Buckley said, “Shareholders lost $10 billion of wealth as a result of [the previous leadership’s] failing to realise the magnitude of change that was coming and act on the climate science”. The AGM coup is “a win for the rejuvenation of AGL. We now have the board majority with a very clear mandate to actually work on behalf of all shareholders.” Read more
CEF in the media  |  Nov 15, 2022

AGL AGM: a victory for impact investors resets company for zero carbon future

ABC NewsRadio

Tim Buckley in an extended interview on the reform of the board at AGL’s AGM – where strategic impact investors used their shareholder muscle to force board renewal and change in the form of the first ever, long overdue Transition Action Plan from Australia’s biggest fossil. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Nov 15, 2022

Rejuvenation of AGL board a clear mandate to act now on climate and decarbonisation

ABC TV News Channel

Tim Buckley gives the first analysis on ABC TV News Channel of the landmark shift today that saw 4 independent directors elected to the AGL board, heralding a dramatic acceleration of our #1 carbon polluter’s decarbonisation – including a mandate to end coal power by 2035 with a planned transition that rapidly upscales investment in firmed renewables and looks after workers. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Nov 15, 2022

Activists toast AGL victory

The Australian

Tim Buckley joins the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility in welcoming the overhaul of the AGL board today, and the huge opportunities this presents to accelerate transition and scale up renewable investment: “AGL is a key Australian energy sector incumbent, with financial resources and staffing that can now be leveraged constructively, with the right leadership.” Read more
CEF in the media  |  Nov 15, 2022

Mike Cannon-Brookes succeeds in shaking up AGL board

The Guardian

Tim Buckley comments on the new dawn at Australia’s biggest carbon polluter AGL today, as 4 independent directors are appointed to the board, ushering in “a turning point” toward decarbonisation and investment in renewables: “This board renewal is critical for AGL investors given the opportunity to start to reverse the $10bn of shareholder wealth destruction in the last six years”. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Nov 11, 2022

What the Origin bid means for Australia’s energy transition

Investor Daily

Tim Buckley in an extended interview with Investor Daily looks at the huge private equity bid by Brookfield and MidOcean for Origin Energy, coupled with their $20bn commitment to renewables, and AGL’s prospects to transform from climate laggard to leader ahead of its AGM, noting the accelerating capital flows to decarbonisation. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Sep 19, 2022

AGL board clean-out continues, with new chair –and a new renewables champion

Renew Economy

Tim Buckley on the bungled AGL demerger and the need for urgent leadership renewal at board level. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Aug 19, 2022

OP ED | AGL leadership farce: blind to the climate science and still in the control room

Renew Economy

As Tim Buckley writes, in the face of a global and domestic energy crisis of shortages and hyperinflation in all fossil fuel commodities, the AGL leadership farce continues. Read more
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