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The Global Energy Transformation and Australia’s Response
Tim Buckley, Director, Climate Energy Finance and Blair Palese, Climate Capital Forum founder presented to Energy Estates in February 2024 on the opportunities for investment from the decarbonisation transition in the Australian economy. Read more
Shock at call for moratorium on ‘reckless renewables’
Climate Capital Forum responds to rally at Parliament House in Canberra, where politicians called for a moratorium on renewables and decarbonisation projects. Read more
BlueScope ‘old’ blast furnace grant slammed by experts
The Climate Capital Forum responds to news of a grant to BlueScope Steel for a $1.15billion upgrade of its Port Kembla blast furnace – extending coal-based steelmaking for two decades: “while Australia procrastinates, developed world leaders are pivoting”. Read more
What Australia Needs to Do to Get In and Stay In the Global Decarbonising Market
Blair Palese, Founder of Climate Capital Forum and Freddy Sharpe, Philanthropist and Investor, presented to the Australian Climate Tech Festival & Awards 2023 in Sydney, November 2023 Read more
An Australian Response to the US IRA
Climate Energy Finance (CEF) and the Climate Capital Forum (CCF) call for at least an extra $100bn of government strategic public-interest capital investment into an Australian Renewables Industry Package and value-adding critical minerals industry development to crowd in $200-300bn of private capital. This would be an appropriately ambitious response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), commensurate with Australia’s domestic and export opportunity. Read more
How renewable energy can be a vehicle for resilient communities and economy in Queensland
Satya Tanner, CEO LAUTEC Australia and Climate Capital Forum member looks at energy resilience in context of national security and Queensland opportunities at Smart Energy Expo in Brisbane, 2023 Read more