The energy transition will take hundreds of billions of dollars and decades to achieve. Private capital won't be able to fund it alone.
Jennifer Duke
Economics correspondent
Jennifer Duke is the associate editor for Capital Brief. She is a Walkley Award winning journalist with more than a decade's experience, specialising in economics, business and finance. She has worked for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age as economics correspondent and as a business journalist.
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