045 | 100 Simon Holmes à Court: Accelerating transformation

Championing Australia’s clean energy transition, long-term energy analyst and renewables investor Simon Holmes à Court is determined to accelerate action on climate change. Holmes à Court is also the founder of Climate 200, the community crowdfunding initiative aimed at supporting candidates with a science-based approach to climate change in the 2022 Federal election.

See Simon Holmes à Court in conversation with journalist Marian Wilkinson, recorded live at Powerhouse as part of 100 Climate Conversations. Entry is free, but bookings are essential as places are limited. Doors open at 9.15am for a 9.30am start. No late admittance.

100 Climate Conversations is a two-year survey of visionary Australians who are accelerating the net zero carbon revolution. To find out more and subscribe to the podcast visit 100climateconversations.com.

Simon Holmes à Court began his career as a software engineer in Silicon Valley during the first dotcom wave, then spent over a decade in precision farm water management. Holmes à Court was a driving force behind the country’s first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind. He is an energy analyst, clean tech investor, climate philanthropist, and director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network. He is also the founder of Climate 200, the community crowdfunding initiative that rallied for climate, integrity and gender equity at the 2022 Federal election, helping to elect seven new independents to the Australian Parliament.

Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist whose career has spanned radio, television and print, covering politics, national security and climate change. She has been a foreign correspondent in Washington for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and executive producer of the ABC's Four Corners. As environment editor for the SMH in 2009 her joint Four Corners production, The Tipping Point, reporting on the rapid melt of Arctic Sea ice won a Walkley Award. Wilkinson has authored four books including, The Carbon Club: How a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's climate policy (2020).