🌍 The risks are real. But the energy transition is gaining momentum.

The financial system can scale change, if the mechanisms are funded, adopted and enforced.

#FocusOnCOP #COP30 #ClimateFinance

🎯 Priority 5: Regulatory frameworks for climate finance

Capital flows don’t just follow policy, they follow rules. Yet lack frameworks to price climate risk.

At COP30: regulators must plug the gaps in prudential policy, taxonomies, credit ratings and market infrastructure.

🎯 Priority 4: Private capital mobilisation

Climate goals are out of reach without private finance. Projects still face huge barriers: thin pipelines, high risk, limited data.

At COP30: we need instruments that let private actors scale in developing markets

🎯 Priority 3: Domestic capacity & investment frameworks

Climate solutions start at home but many countries lack the institutions, pipelines & fiscal space to deploy them.

At COP30: we must align strategies, build country platforms & unlock domestic investment frameworks.

🎯 Priority 2: MDB reform

MDBs have a unique role in scaling long‑term, affordable climate investment. But current models are too small, slow & disconnected.

At COP30: we need them to be better, bigger, more effective.

🎯 Priority 1: Concessional finance & climate funds

Public & highly concessional finance remain the backbone of climate action. Today: flows are too low, fragmented & slow.

At COP30: we need time‑bound commitments, simplified access & coherent architecture across channels.

As global #LNG demand wanes & decarbonisation accelerates, Australia’s dual identity — fossil fuel powerhouse & climate‑conscious nation — is under increasing strain. Former analyst @timcef.bsky.social warns its “gift horse” of fossil‑fuel revenue could turn into a “resources curse.”

Advocacy group @climateintegrityau.bsky.social alleges the gas industry used distorted research by accounting firm EY to shape the government’s Future Gas Strategy — which claims new gas is essential in every #NetZero pathway, contradicting independent analyses and the @iea.org. ⚠️

Former Labor industry minister @edhusicmp.bsky.social bluntly stated:
“It makes no sense for Australia to be a major gas producer while local businesses are paying international prices.”
He’s calling for a “use‑it‑or‑lose‑it” export rule.

Research from @ieefainstitute.bsky.social reveals that 🇯🇵 Japanese firms re‑sold up to 600 petajoules of Australian gas in 2024 — more than Australia’s entire East Coast annual consumption — for over A$1 billion profit. 💰

While energy consumers face rising energy costs. 📈

💬 Positive tipping points are no longer future scenarios — they’re emerging now.
But scale and equity still lag.

📍Next post: policies outcomes needed to accelerate this momentum at #COP30.

#FocusOnCOP

🔋 Battery storage
🇨🇳 China added 23 GW in 2023
🇪🇺 EU up 70% in 2023

🌡️ Heat pumps
🇳🇴 Norway: installed in 60% of buildings