Virtual Event
HILT CRC Public Webinar: Unlocking investment and competitiveness in industrial decarbonisation
December 9 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ACDT
Virtual Event
How can Australia unlock the investment needed to decarbonise its energy-intensive industries while maintaining their international competitiveness?
This webinar introduces a new HILT CRC project RP3.011, Unlocking investment and competitiveness in industrial decarbonisation through green finance, environmental markets and institutional capital. The project is exploring how green finance, environmental markets and institutional capital can help overcome the barriers to investment in industrial decarbonisation.
Focusing on hard-to-abate sectors such as iron and steel, alumina and aluminium, and cement, the discussion will examine how financing structures, risk allocation and emerging revenue opportunities can influence the commercial viability of low-emissions industrial technologies.
Hosted by project leader Dr Daniel Rossetto (Adelaide University), the webinar will explore the challenges investors and project sponsors face in financing industrial decarbonisation, the role of the broader project revenue stack in strengthening project economics and bankability, and the opportunities to mobilise private and institutional capital at scale.
Designed as an introduction to the project, this session will establish the key questions and themes for a series of deeper discussions planned for 2027. It will examine some of the earlier research that shaped RP3.011 and bring together perspectives from industry, finance and research to explore how Australia can develop more investable pathways to industrial decarbonisation while strengthening the competitiveness of its industrial base.
The webinar will also feature a presenter offering an industry perspective (TBC).
The webinar is ideal for project developers, contractors, OEMs, financiers, investors, think tanks and policymakers with an interest in heavy industry’s low-carbon transition.
SPEAKERS
Dr Daniel Rossetto, Professor, School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Adelaide University
Dr Daniel Rossetto specialises in environmental and energy commodity markets, international business and climate change geopolitics. He brings more than 25 years of experience across six continents.
- His commercial experience includes:
- Structuring green and sustainable finance, including sustainability-linked loans, green bonds, carbon funds and environmentally themed export credits.
- Arranging finance for large-scale renewable energy and storage, heavy industry, biofuels, manufacturing and electricity generation projects.
- Negotiating long-term commodity derivatives and tolling agreements covering electricity, energy feedstocks and carbon certificates.
- Securing land, leases and development and connection approvals for major projects.
- Advising on business cases for industrial decarbonisation, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, energy efficiency and nature-based solutions.
Daniel has served as a director of UK-based Climate Mundial Limited for more than a decade. Previously, he was Executive Director of Environmental Markets at J.P. Morgan Chase, helping develop its global carbon finance and trading businesses and structure early sovereign green bond issuances. He also helped develop Enel Group’s carbon strategy.
As an Australian policymaker from 2000–2005, Daniel contributed to the National Emissions Trading Taskforce’s design of a national emissions trading program. He also served on the COAG senior officials working group that developed the initial National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting framework, which underpins the Safeguard Mechanism.
Daniel has published on green finance, climate-themed bonds, border carbon mechanisms, carbon pricing and corporate sustainability strategy, including papers on Bloomberg platforms and journal articles. He holds a PhD from Adelaide University.