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What does a green superpower look like? A certain command and control economy to Australia’s north is the model despite its many current flaws. “China is moving a million times faster than we are,” CEO of Climate Energy Finance, Tim Buckley, said. “China installs 24 gigawatts of wind and solar every month. That’s what they did last month. That’s what they’ve done on average in the last 20 months. We do about six gigs a year. “So they do in one week what we take a year to do. “The idea that we’re the superpower is a delusion. “We’re in a race and we’re not winning it. “But we do have the potential to be a renewable energy superpower and mining is going to be how we get that.” Read more

Australia could miss out on $70 billion a year in export revenue if it does not pivot quickly enough “green iron” as countries like China decarbonise their supply chains, a new report claims. By becoming a world leader in green iron, Australia could double its export revenue to $250 billion, according to the Climate Energy Finance (CEF) think tank. “However, failure to overcome the technical and economic challenges of green iron would mean Australia risks the reality that our iron exports could halve, as traditional importers restructure and decarbonise supply chains, and prioritise regions of high-quality iron ore and low-cost ironmaking,” CEF said in its report. Read more

Tim Buckley on Jaynie Seal’s Sky Weekend Live covers CEF’s new report on forging an Australian green iron industry, Read more

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Trump has expressed his determination to roll back President Joe Biden’s push to accelerate the US economy’s transition to low-emissions technology. And that may leave a green iron and green steel hole in global trade that Australia can step into. “Potentially, the emerging market could add $250 billion each year to national revenue. If we don’t capitalise on it, a new report from Climate Energy Finance states the nation could face a $69 billion budget black hole. “This is brilliant for Australia, and if we don’t do it, we’re going to look like absolute morons in a decade’s time with Oman, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Guinea having eaten our lunch,” report co-author Tim Buckley said. Read more

Prof Elizabeth Thurbon writes on CEF’s green iron report and the immense strategic opportunity for Australia in establishing a green iron and steel industry Read more

Australian Mining Monthly covers CEF’s new green iron report, which finds that we face a potential 50% drop in iron ore export revenues if we fail to pivio at speed to green iron Read more

CEF director Tim Buckley discusses CEF’s major new report on Australia’s huge green iron opportunity with Kieran Gilbert on SKy Newsday. Read more

As the world’s top exporter of iron ore, Australia risks losing up to 50% of its $138 billion annual export revenues unless it invests in green iron production, according to a report by Climate Energy Finance (CEF). The report, Green Metal Statecraft: Forging Australia’s Green Iron Industry, argues that the shift towards decarbonisation in key markets such as China demands urgent action to maintain Australia’s role in the global steel supply chain. Read more

Distributed widely via AAP | Australia risks a catastrophic halving of its iron ore export revenues from a failure to invest in the emerging green iron industry, a think tank warns. In a peer-reviewed report aimed at Treasurer Jim Chalmers, the Climate Energy Finance think tank warns Australia will lose its global lead in iron ore, with devastating economic consequences, unless it quickly offers incentives to kickstart green iron exports. Australia’s top export iron ore could double to more than $250 billion annually if it went green and switching to exporting green iron could also reduce global emissions by one billion tonnes per year, the report found. Read more

Top global iron ore exporter Australia could lose as much as half its revenue from the sector if it fails to start producing green iron fast enough, as other countries start making steel using renewable energy, a think tank said on Friday. To avoid what could be “devastating economic consequences”, Australia needs “a suite of strategic national-interest policy and investment incentives to kickstart a green iron export industry”, the report said. Read more

Independent clean energy think tank Climate Energy Finance has called for a $20 billion Future Fund mandate to enable renewables-powered processing of green metals and for measures to accelerate investment in firmed renewable energy at scale. CEF Net Zero Transformation Analyst and lead author on the report Matt Pollard said Australia’s world leading iron ore producers have extracted huge returns on investment as China prioritised expansion of its steel mills. Read more