2025 Australian Climate Tech Industry Report
Featuring insights from 80 companies and 37 sustainability champions
The 2025 Australian Climate Tech Industry Report highlights how Australia's climate tech industry has built up momentum and is poised for growth.
The momentum we’re seeing is highly encouraging. The transition to a net zero economy is creating exciting opportunities for new technologies and business models, demanding rapid innovation and the acceleration of commercialisation.Malcolm ThorntonHead of Growth Capital, CEFC
About this report
Australian Climate Tech Industry Reports
The Australian Climate Tech Industry Reports are developed by Climate Salad, an active network to boost climate tech companies in Australia. As a major climate tech investor, the CEFC is pleased to support this work.
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about the industry
Australia’s climate tech sector builds momentum
The 2025 industry report shows Australia’s climate sector is gearing up for its next major leap forward.
Forces accelerating climate tech sector momentum include bigger problems to solve, better economics, supportive policy, more customers and more scale.
The report is based on data from 733 participants and highlights insights from 80 companies and 37 sustainability champions.
Participating companies cover a broad range of sectors, including the circular economy, data and finance, renewables, agriculture and food, the built environment, mobility, ecosystem, carbon markets, storage, resources and biosphere.
The CEFC and climate tech
Emerging technologies are critical to Australia’s net zero ambitions, offering scalable solutions to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors such as energy, transport, agriculture and industry.
The CEFC addresses this challenge through its Growth Capital platform and the Powering Australia Technology Fund, which targets climate tech innovators from early-stage startups to high-growth businesses with commercially proven innovations ready to scale.
The CEFC investment approach to climate tech is collaborative, which often involves co-investing alongside private equity and venture capital firms. In addition to capital, the CEFC brings deep market insights, regulatory understanding and a long-term commitment to sustainability.
report findings
2025 climate tech market insights
The Climate Salad report finds that Australian climate tech has the potential to create both domestic and international impact even though market conditions continue to make raising capital challenging.
The report shows Australia has the foundations of a strong climate industry with research, innovation, funding, talent and motivation. However, the industry is not yet proven. The report finds that Australia must focus on more pilot projects, more ‘first of a kind’ and ‘1,000 of a kind’ technologies, as well as more scaled and profitable businesses.
Other findings include:
- More than 7,000 people are working in climate tech and companies surveyed for the Climate Salad report had raised over $680 million in capital in 2025.
- Pre-seed funding rounds continue to dominate capital raising as new climate-tech ventures enter the ecosystem.
- Some 51 per cent of climate tech companies are focused on emissions reduction or removal.
- Green steel, critical minerals, home electrification, AI-powered agriculture, mid-scale energy generation, batteries, and carbon removal are among the areas of opportunity.
- Australia’s clean energy solutions are increasingly built for global markets and investors worldwide are paying attention.
