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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
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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.
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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”
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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.
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Shock at call for moratorium on ‘reckless renewables’
AAP
Blair Palese, Founder, Climate Capital Forum comments on the Coalition’s campaign to suspend investment in decarbonisation , calling it “reckless and short sighted”.
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