This reflects the fact that while financial transactions between Australians do affect the risk profile of individual balance sheets within the economy, they do not, by themselves, change our national net wealth. It is what is done with this internal finance that matters for wealth. 2  To some extent the value of these institutional arrangements is capitalised into our land prices.
Meeting a future global increase in energy demand in a sustainable way while reducing emissions from existing infrastructure will require billions of dollars of investment. However, there is currently a gap of many hundreds of billions of dollars between existing investments and what is required.