Published by the Centre for Independent Studies (Sydney), 1 March 2012 (PDF)
http://cis.org.au/publications/issue-analysis/article/3985-a-waste-of-energy-why-the-clean-energy-finance-corporation-is-redundant
The federal government’s plans to establish a Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) should be scrapped. As a commercially oriented company, it competes with private investors. As a company with a public mandate, it nevertheless aims to serve a public policy goal. These dual purposes are hard to reconcile.
However, its place under an emissions trading framework is even more problematic. As a carbon emissions trading scheme sets a ceiling on overall emissions, the CEFC will not achieve any additional emissions cuts but only result in lower prices for emissions certificates. $10bn of public funding will thus yield a zero emissions effect.
