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Let Me Sum UpK-COP: NDC HuntersAll aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends! That’s right, we’re calling in even nerdier reinforcements and experts to join us as we venture on. We're four in, two to go and luminaries helping us sum up so far include Dylan McConnell, Davina Rooney, Helen Rowe and Alison Reeve! And if somehow that isn’t temptation enough for you crazy climate cats, the only way you’ll see evidence of Luke, Tennant and Frankie’s cosplay efforts at our recent Chaos Trivia event...
2025-11-161h 05Let Me Sum UpHow To Slow Climate Change: Loosely, In The Sky With DiamondsSubscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a sector plan BoCo bonanza! All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends! That’s right, we’re calling in even nerdier reinforcements and experts to join us as we venture on. This week, we’ll be joined by sometime co-host Alison Reeve from the Grattan Institute to unpack the Industry sector plan. And if somehow that isn’t temptation enough for you crazy climate cats, the only way you’ll see evidence of Luke, Tennant and Fran...
2025-11-061h 11Let Me Sum UpUnder Grattan’s eSafeguard Plan, Electricity Is Like A Baby Bird: It Goes CheapSubscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a sector plan BoCo bonanza! All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends! That’s right, we’re calling in even nerdier reinforcements and experts to join us as we venture on. This week, we’ll be joined by Helen Rowe from Climateworks to talk transport and infrastructure.—With a promise to provide guidance on the next five years ‘and beyond’ your intrepid hosts digested the Queensland Government Energy Roadmap 2025. It provides a major r...
2025-10-231h 07Let Me Sum UpThe Ghost Of Climate FutureSubscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a sector plan BoCo bonanza! All aboard folks! Team LMSU is embarking on a BoCo odyssey over the the next couple of months, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends! That’s right, we’re calling in even nerdier reinforcements and experts to join us as we venture on. For our first deep dive, The Planned and the Penurious (Energy and Electricity Sector Plan), we were joined by Energy wizard Dylan McConnell! Our second outing, 2 Planned: 2 Penurious (Built Environment), will feature buildings maven Davina Rooney!
2025-10-091h 31Let Me Sum UpT•R•E•N•D•S: The One Where Tim, Mira, Emm And Alex Model Net Zero PathwaysTime is running out to get your tickets for Chaos Trivia! Team LMSU is joining forces with the fabulous folks from Currently Speaking for a blockbuster crossover event, with special guests, the NEMchat Singers. Chaos Trivia is set for the first night of the All Energy Conference on Wednesday 29 October in Melbourne, and as predicted, tickets are selling like hotcakes with only a few left! There will be trivia! Role playing? Musical interludes! Food! Drinks! And Tennant is still committed to some wizard cosplay! All proceeds go to the First Nations Clean Energy Network so - RUN, do...
2025-09-251h 21Let Me Sum UpThe Hi-Lo Country (2035)In this special, rapid reaction bonus episode (freed from the paywall, in the National Interest) we provide the hottest of hot takes on Australia's new 2035 emissions reduction target, and the 1000+ pages of documents released by the Albanese Government this week. You're welcome!We'll be back in your feeds next Friday to talk Treasury modelling. Meanwhile...Step right up and get your tickets for Chaos Trivia! Team LMSU is joining forces with the fabulous folks from Currently Speaking for a blockbuster crossover event, with special guests, the NEMchat Singers! Chaos Trivia is se...
2025-09-1858 minLet Me Sum UpOnce You Start Down The Wood Side, Forever Will It Dominate Your DestinyStep right up and get your tickets for Chaos Trivia! Team LMSU is joining forces with the fabulous folks from Currently Speaking for a blockbuster crossover event, with special guests, the NEMchat Singers! Chaos Trivia is set for the first night of the All Energy Conference on Wednesday 29 October in Melbourne. There will be trivia! Role playing? Musical interludes! Food! Drinks! And Tennant in some wizard cosplay, which should frankly be reason enough! All proceeds go to the First Nations Clean Energy Network and we reckon tix will sell like hotcakes, so - run, don’t walk and...
2025-09-111h 29Let Me Sum UpClimate Hegemon: Gotta Catch Em All (Chinazard, Mimik-EU, Trumptwo)‘Abundance v Sufficiency: Dawn of Justice’ T-Shirt Edition The sufficiency movement is winning… at least when it comes to LMSU merch! If you haven’t read Abundance but keep finding yourself sucked into conversations about it, have we got the “No I haven’t read Abundance, that’s what podcasts are for” t-shirt for you! Merch as a proxy for ideological dominance? You decide. Run, don’t walk to our merch page and grab the limited edition Abundance tee: www.letmesumup.net/p/merch/.—Productivity Palooza 2025 continues like the perpetual festival the PC wished for and your in...
2025-08-281h 11Let Me Sum UpLike Sands Through The Hourglass, So Are The NEM Reviews Of Our Lives‘Abundance v Sufficiency: Dawn of Justice’ T-Shirt Edition With a sufficiency of sufficiency-themed t-shirts now on the streets, the universe is out of balance and your intrepid hosts need to balance the sufficiency yin with an abundance yang! And OH BOY did we have an abundance of abundance-themed t-shirt ideas for you. YOU need not have Abundance FOMO any longer. Run, don’t walk to our merch page and grab the limited edition Abundance tee: www.letmesumup.net/p/merch/.—It’s Productivity Palooza 2025 and invited to the hottest party in town (this here podcast...
2025-08-141h 39Let Me Sum UpHey Big Spender, Blend A Little SAF For Me (Low Carbon, So Refined)‘More Sufficiency Now!’ tees - for a sufficiently limited time onlyThere may no longer be an insufficiency of sufficiency themed t-shirts walking the streets but YOUR opportunity to join the burgeoning sufficiency movement is rapidly closing like the Overton window on climate ambition! YOU can make sufficiency a thing by heading to our merch page and grabbing one of these tees, which will only be available for the next week before they disappear like the t-shirt you didn’t need in the first place. Run, don’t walk over to: www.letmesumup.net/p/merch/.—
2025-07-311h 17Let Me Sum UpFrankie My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn (About GPGs not making Taxonomy v1.0)‘More Sufficiency Now!’ tees - for a limited time onlyInspired by listener Rob Law’s question on why sufficiency isn’t more of a thing in Australia, Frankie speculates anew that a insufficiency of sufficiency-themed t-shirts may be to blame... but no more! YOU can make sufficiency a thing by heading to our merch page and grabbing one of these tees, which will only be available for the next four weeks. Run, don’t walk over to: www.letmesumup.net/p/merch/.—It might not be Gassy McGasface, but don’t let the innocuousl...
2025-07-171h 25Let Me Sum UpWe, The Climate Wonks Of Asia, In Order To Form A More Perfect CBAM...Frankie has a new (day) job! She’s heading to the Investor Group on Climate Change after more than nine years at the Property Council and is going to apply those well-honed extortion skills to the entire net zero transition!Your intrepid hosts are excited about electrifying all the things this week with big electrification policies landing in both Victoria and City of Sydney. The much anticipated next tranche of Victoria’s Gas Substitution Roadmap agenda is finally here with the Allan Government launching a bold package of reforms. Gas hot water heaters? Out. Minimum energy efficiency rent...
2025-07-031h 33Let Me Sum UpNotorious RBD Vs (Too Much) RABSupport us on Patreon and grab some merchThe merch is flying off the shelves (and into Summerupperer mailboxes near and far!). The website is live (and functional!) and the bonus episodes are tastier than Tennant’s home baked maruspice cookies. Join the Super Summerupperer secret society at www.letmesumup.net and click “Support LMSU” to get your fortnightly BoCo fix. Because THERE. IS. (STILL). TOO. MUCH.—This week your intrepid hosts are joined by newly minted Grattan Institute Energy & Climate Program *Director* Alison Reeve to unpack the Productivity Commission’s climate musings and a spic...
2025-06-191h 18Let Me Sum UpAbundance: A Zippy 40 Year Ride On Procedural Liberalism’s Fast Train To NowhereIt’s hard to believe your intrepid hosts birthed this little pod into the world a whole three years ago, but here we are! Still readin’ papers, still summing em’ up for YOU, our amazing Summerupperers!And to mark the occasion, we are celebrating with a triple scoop of gas policy, political philisophy and pod merch madness! That’s right, we’re SHIRTFRONTING the lot of you! After far, far too many ‘Shirtfronting with Frankie’ segments, Team LMSU is delighted to offer our very own a la carte merch menu! T-shirts and tote bags and mugs, oh my! All brough...
2025-06-051h 29Let Me Sum Up“Unlimited Power!!!” Cackle Energy Wonks Calculating Australia’s Clean Trade OpportunitySupport us on Patreon... Team LMSU are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Every fortnight, the day after a regular episode drops, there will be a delicious, subscriber only BoCo episode. Because, THERE IS TOO MUCH! This week we are taking stock of post-election shenanigans and implications for climate policies. Run, don’t walk over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—It took something majorly main course to distract your entrepid hosts from microwaving some more post-election popcorn (never fear, this week’s BoCo episode for Patreon subscr...
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Let Me Sum UpThere Is Too Much: The Federal Election's Impact On Climate And Energy PolicyUsually our Bonus Content is behind the paywall, but this week we're getting the Blue Screen Of Death from Apple Podcasts (somewhat ironic) and they won't let us post the show! So while we are on hold with IT, we're posting this week's bonus episode in the main feed so that A. those of you that are subscribed in Apple Podcasts get the ep. and B. those of you that aren't get a taste of that sweet, sweet BoCo we're rolling out every fortnight. Because once you go BoCo you don't go back! Join the co...
2025-05-0934 minLet Me Sum UpPearls And Kidney Stones, Fresh And Steaming From The Bloody Guts Of The 2025 ElectionSupport us on Patreon... Team LMSU are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! This year we are upping the ante and every fortnight when a regular episode drops, there will be a delicious, subscriber only BoCo episode. Because, THERE IS TOO MUCH! This week we look beyond the election and consider the implications for all the great climate and energy policy processes, both progressing and prospective! https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.---This is a rapid response episode, so not much in the way of shownotes! Although...
2025-05-051h 08Let Me Sum UpIf This Is Climate Fight Club, Does That Make Nick Stern Tyler Durden?Support us on Patreon... Team LMSU are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! This year we are upping the ante and every fortnight when a regular episode drops, there will be a delicious, subscriber only BoCo episode. Because, THERE IS TOO MUCH! This week we are speed dating every* party’s climate election policies so head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.* a sample approach was taken to Independents!—The data is in and your dedicated hosts are diving into SAFEGUARD 2: SAFE GUARDER the...
2025-04-241h 25Let Me Sum UpKill Bills: Showdown At The House Of Blue FlamesSupport us on Patreon... Team LMSU are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! This year we are upping the ante and every fortnight when a regular episode drops, there will be a delicious, subscriber only BoCo episode. Because, THERE IS TOO MUCH! This week we talking about the Federal election campaign so head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—Your intrepid hosts are again revisiting the geopolitics corner of the LMSU cafe and this week on the menu is a tariffpalooza! Everybody (except a few no...
2025-04-101h 08Let Me Sum UpThis Week on LMSU: Energy Measures That Weren't In The Budget That Wasn't Meant To BeSupport us on Patreon... Team LMSU are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! This year we are upping the ante and every fortnight the day after a regular episode drops, there will be a delicious, subscriber only BoCo episode. Because THERE IS TOO MUCH! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—There was a budget! There wasn't much in it! We talked for over 50 minutes anyway!Checks out.Back to regularly scheduled programming next episode, so send your suggestions for papers to...
2025-03-2650 minLet Me Sum UpSome Energy Policies Are Bangers. Others Are The Wurst.Support us on Patreon... Team LMSU are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! This year we are upping the ante and every fortnight the day after a regular episode drops, there will be a delicious, subscriber only BoCo episode. Because THERE IS TOO MUCH! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—Your intrepid hosts construct another corner in the LMSU cafe and contemplate how the current geopolitics of it all have impacted the latest talks of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which met to de...
2025-03-131h 11Let Me Sum UpIEA Nuclear Wedge vs. CCA Atomic WedgieSupport us on Patreon... Team LMSU are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! This year we are upping the ante and every fortnight when a regular episode drops, there will be an additional, delicious, subscriber only BoCo episode hitting the feeds as well. Because, THERE IS TOO MUCH! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—After an extended summer vacay, Team LMSU is back - and not a minute too soon! The spidey senses of the folks at the Climate Change Authority must have been ti...
2025-02-271h 09Let Me Sum UpLMSU Holiday Special 2024: Well Excuse Me, Wolf Princess!Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like extra subscriber-only episodes, including the recently released Dungeons and Dragons play-though episode. What’s not to love here? Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.The 2024 Wonkies! We are back, one last time in 2024, with our THIRD ANNUAL BUMPER HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR! That’s right Summerupperers, ‘tis the season for the Highly Anticipated and Much Sought After awarding of the third annual...
2024-12-301h 26Let Me Sum Up🎶 On The Third Climate Christmas, CCA Rec’d To Me / Power Builds PDQ Please 🎶Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus subscriber-only episodes, soon to include a game of Dungeons & Dragons recorded in Baku after a chat about the US election. What’s not to love here? Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—It’s a cornucopia of climate content as your intrepid hosts barely know where to start feasting as the festive season descends upon the pod. Conscious climate consum...
2024-12-121h 11Let Me Sum Up"COP, Collaborate And Listen" Feat. Vanishing IceSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus subscriber-only episodes, including our feelpinions about the recent US election! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.–We left you all on a cliffhanger last episode, so for those of you paying absolutely no attention to news reports we’re here to resolve all plotlines! How much did the developed world commit in climate finance? Did the UAE dialogue generate crac...
2024-11-2659 minLet Me Sum UpCOPacetic Brazilians and Sub-COPtimal BazillionsSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus subscriber-only episodes, including our feelpinions about the recent US election!!. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.Our main topicIt is Back to Baku (sort of) as Frankie, Luke and Tennant report from the ground at COP29 in Azerbaijan, and call in reinforcements (someone has to be on hand to remind us of the storied history of cover texts) i...
2024-11-1656 minLet Me Sum UpJust A Border Carbon Adjustment Adjusting Carbon At The Border (Definitely Not A CBAM)Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus subscriber-only episodes and - dare we say it - the prospect of elusive LMSU t-shirt designs?! Only one way to find out. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp. Our Main PaperWe interrupt regular programming to bring you an extra, rapid reaction episode to a very special development. And sorry folks, it’s not the US election res...
2024-11-071h 08Let Me Sum UpFinance Your Dream Climate Now: Talk To One Of Our Friendly Multilateral Bankers Today!* (Conditions Apply)Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus subscriber-only episodes and - dare we say it - the prospect of elusive LMSU t-shirt designs?! Only one way to find out. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—After Frankie brazenly reclaims a corner of the pod for the infamous “Shirtfronting with Frankie” (become a Super Summerupperer for a first look at t-shirt designs!) your intrepid hosts dive into a pre...
2024-10-311h 15Let Me Sum UpISP Karaoke: Pump Up The (Gas) Volume Versus Itty Bitty Teeny Weeny Little Gas Backup BikiniSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus subscriber-only episodes and tasty extras like our episode notes, custom memes and climate reworks of classic songs - it’s a vibe. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—This week your intrepid hosts pop the frunk to take a look at just what is going on with trucks! Thanks to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and...
2024-10-1759 minLet Me Sum UpH2 Fast H2 FuriousSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like our recent bonus episodes on nuclear (could it work?) Plus tasty extras like our episode notes, custom memes and climate themed reworks of classic songs - it’s a vibe. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—This week your intrepid hosts are joined by LMSU co-host-at-large - aka the sensible lady in paragraph five - none other than Grattan climate mave...
2024-10-031h 20Let Me Sum UpHomes, how I upgrade thee? Let me count the ways (69)Come join us at Currently Speaking's trivia night! Our friends at the Currently Speaking newsletter are putting on a trivia night in Melbourne on Wednesday, 23 October (on the evening of the first day of the All Energy Australia exhibition and conference). So you should get onto that, obviously. But if you are a Super Summerupperer (or ready to sign up) we have three spare tickets for the LMSU trivia team, and maybe they have your name on them! Just head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp, make sure you are a paying subscriber, and answer this question: i...
2024-09-191h 03Let Me Sum UpFake Takes On Emissions Breaks Plus Propter Hoc MistakesSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like our recent bonus episodes on US election shenanigans and closer to home, the passing of legislation for the Net Zero Economy Agency and Climate-related Financial Disclosures. You will also find things you didn’t know you wanted (weekly photos of Frankie’s uber cute doggo, Tennant’s cats, cyber punk cosplay outfits and a general #GoodTime). Don’t be shy! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetM...
2024-09-051h 04Let Me Sum UpClimate-Washing, SLAPP-Fights & Green-On-Green Action: No Court Shaming Here!Episode NotesSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like our recent bonus episode on brat summer and US election implications for climate, as well as other savoury morsels like our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—After recent frolics in pre-and-post election climate speculation in the US and UK, your intrepid hosts tu...
2024-08-221h 25Let Me Sum UpThunderstruck By Dirty Deeds On The Highway To HellSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like our recent bonus episode on brat summer and US election implications for climate, as well as other savoury morsels like our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—After shamelessly spruiking our latest subscriber-only bonus content – LMSU speculation on the US election and its implications for mitigation – we pop ac...
2024-08-081h 18Let Me Sum UpNEM Are From Mars, Communities Are From Venus: A Practical Guide For Improving Communication And Getting What You Want In Your Energy Transition by Andrew Dyer, Ph.D.Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus episodes and other savoury morsels like our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—This week your intrepid hosts feast on the veritable smorgasbord of actions and progress contained in the communique out of climate and energy ministers’ most recent gathering! The acronym soup - CER, FMIA, MEPS...
2024-07-251h 16Let Me Sum UpLMSU’s War On Tipping Points (And Peace With The ISP)Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus episodes and other savoury morsels like our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—This week your intrepid hosts are joined by a very special guest. He is a writer, a comedian, a broadcaster, a wager of Wars on Waste and a general in the Fight for Pl...
2024-07-111h 16Let Me Sum UpEverybody Needs Good NABERSSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus episodes, including our answers to more of the AMA questions we couldn’t get to this week and other savoury morsels like our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—Luke and Frankie are missing Tennant this week but are blessed by the presence of stunt double CBAM...
2024-06-2739 minLet Me Sum UpEpisode 50 Spectacular: LMSU’s Excellent AdventureSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus episodes, including our answers to more of the AMA questions we couldn’t get to this week and other savoury morsels like our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—Your intrepid hosts are delighted to present this break-with-the-usual-format spectacular to mark an important milestone: FIFTY EPISODES of t...
2024-06-131h 13Let Me Sum UpBONUS! LMSU E50 AMA PSAThats right, our very next episode is our fiftieth (how did that happen) so to mark the occasion we are doing an Ask Me Anything! Luke's fashion choices, trolling Frankie about hydrogen in buildings, getting Tennant's attention with questions posed in the form of memes – it is all on the table.But time is of the essence! Get your question into mailbag@letmesumup.net by Sunday 9 June 2024. And remember you get extra points if you submit your question as a voice recording (and the chance for it to be spliced into the episode and LMSU history). Huzzah!...
2024-06-0206 minLet Me Sum UpGas Lightyear: To 2050, and Beyond!Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like bonus episodes and other savoury morsels like our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—Another fortnight, another flurry of activity vis-a-vis the reliability of the NEM! Your intrepid hosts have some whiplash from the just-published May 2024 Update to the 2023 Electricity Statement of Opportunities, rendered out of date so...
2024-05-301h 19Let Me Sum UpNEM Fighter II: Ultra Turbo Reliability EditionSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up today for access to coveted BoCo like our just-dropped bonus episode on the Federal Budget! Other savoury morsels include our notes on papers read, alternate paper titles and so so many custom memes. Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—Your intrepid hosts turn their gaze stateside for a gander at the recently published rules from the US EPA which will slash emissions and other pollutants from coal an...
2024-05-161h 01Let Me Sum UpThe Old Double-Reverse-China: Australia’s Solar Industry Strategy?Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up for access to coveted BoCo like bonus episodes, our notes on papers read, custom memes and climate mash ups of 70s soul hits! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—If there’s one thing your intrepid hosts love it’s an acronym! PM Anthony Albanese served up fresh fodder for the LMSU crew in the form of A Future Made In Australia or as it shall henceforth be kno...
2024-05-021h 08Let Me Sum UpThe Goldilocks Number: Which 2035 Target Is Just Right?Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up for access to covetous BoCo like bonus episodes, our notes on papers read, custom memes and climate mash ups of 70s soul hits! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—The demand side of the energy system equation is near and dear to the hearts of your your intrepid hosts and so it was with a collective sigh that we mused on the government’s just released National Ener...
2024-04-181h 03Let Me Sum UpMy Little GSOO: Gas Ships Are Magic!Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up for access to covetous BoCo like bonus episodes, our notes on papers read, custom memes and climate mash ups of 70s soul hits! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—Your intrepid hosts still have the Need for Speed(y decarbonisation of vehicles) and clocked the New (and improved?) Vehicle Efficiency Standard completed its warm up lap and with industry all signed up now and cheering from the si...
2024-04-041h 11Let Me Sum UpAustralian Adaptation: Building for ‘Mad Max’, Hoping for ‘Her’Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up for access to covetous BoCo like bonus episodes, our notes on papers read, custom memes and climate mash ups of 70s soul hits! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—It's time to revive *US elections corner* at LMSU HQ and HOOOEEEEE there is a lot to say! Summerupperers, we could have spent the whole pod unpacking the various permutations of the makeup of Congress and its implications fo...
2024-03-211h 12Let Me Sum UpCould Rewiring Humanity Be Easier Than Rewiring The Nation?Support us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our Patreon! Sign up for access to covetous BoCo like bonus episodes, our notes on papers read, custom memes and climate mash ups of 70s soul hits! Head on over to https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.—We get the ball rolling with some crystal ball gazing this week. Speculation is rife on just how ambitious Australia’s 2035 national emissions target will be and your intrepid hosts are far from immune to a spot of prog...
2024-03-071h 08Let Me Sum UpDo Aussies Dream of Electric Popemobiles? Vehicle Efficiency StandardsSupport us on Patreon... Tennant, Luke and Frankie are calling all Summerupperers to come join the expanded LMSU universe and support our just-launched Patreon! Our hope is to make this passion project of ours a tad more sustainable. You can sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUp.---Your intrepid hosts have charged into 2024 and are serving you the hottest takes on the spiciest topics. It’s good to be back!We kick things off by recapping Big Thinkers Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims’ appearance at the National Press Club on 14 February where...
2024-02-221h 03Let Me Sum UpBonus: We Won’t Shut Up, But We'll Take Your MoneyCalling all Summerupperers! We’ve plunged into the partay pool of Patreon to make this passion project of ours a tad more sustainable. You can sign up to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/LetMeSumUpWe launched Let Me Sum Up back in 2022 because we had a feeling we weren’t the only ones struggling to keep up with all the latest climate and energy papers and global goings on. We have loved every second of it and meeting many of you, our amazing listeners, who love the pod and have encouraged us to keep going. Y...
2024-02-2114 minLet Me Sum UpLMSU Holiday Special 2023: Explosion’s ElevenBy popular demand we are joined once more by marvelous guest host Alison Reeve to round out 2023 with our BUMPER HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR! That’s right Summerupperers, ‘tis the season for the Highly Anticipated and Much Sought After awarding of the second annual Wonkies! This year there were several contenders for top honours but your intrepid hosts have sent up the smoke signal and unanimously declared our favourite climate paper of 2023 was…DRUMROLL…Getting off gas: why, how and who should pay? By Tony Wood, Alison Reeve and Esther Suckling of the Grattan Institute! This paper was covered i...
2023-12-281h 30Let Me Sum UpCOP! In The Name Of Love (Before You Break My Chart)Continents apart and featuring LBM (Little Baby Muskovic) once more, your intrepid hosts dive into the eventful last few days of COP28 and swim around in the acronym soupy delight that is the first GST (Global Stocktake, not the pesky 10% tax). Fossil fuels? A transition away! Renewable energy? Triple ‘em! Energy efficiency? Double it! 1.5C? Is our North Star! Next round of NDCs? Parties better bring ‘em and make ‘em good! There is much to sum up here and we wanted to bring you Summeruperers the hottest of hot takes and so voila! Fresh out of the oven and off th...
2023-12-141h 08Let Me Sum Up28 COPs LaterWith the help of special guest and climate reporter of note Dr Simon Evans from Carbon Brief, your intrepid hosts sum up all the hot button issues from the first week of COP28. Global Stocktake! Tripling up on renewables! Doubling down on energy efficiency! Phase-down of fossil fuels! Phase-out of fossil fuels! Abated or Unabated! We cover it all, as well the vibe on the ground and around the pavilions, Team Australia’s presence at this COP (coffee diplomacy soldiers on) and wild speculation on the location of the next three (!) COPs.Listen to our last episode wh...
2023-12-0856 minLet Me Sum UpUltra Centrist But Not Super Critical: Blueprint’s Nuclear PlanFrankie is back from pod mat leave and Tennant is spruiking recipes from Dungeons & Dragons Heroes’ Feast Cookbooks! (Vol 1 and Vol 2). Pleasantries aside we dive in with our own stocktake of the first Global Stocktake on progress of the Paris Agreement towards achieving its purpose and long-term goals. Due to be discussed in Dubai at COP28 shortly, it’s an important if unsurprising summary of where we’re at: Paris has driven a lot of activity but we are not on track for 1.5C.And stay tuned for more COP news Sumerupperers as your intrepid hosts are depart...
2023-11-231h 14Let Me Sum UpH2AB8 in LTS: Residual Emissions WTFOur starter is the Strategic Plan of the revived State Electricity Commission of Victoria. What are they up to? Much more than we expected! Large scale clean energy investment, taking on existing contracts for difference, getting into electrification, skills, and governance! No really, that last one might be the most controversial. Overall it’s very interesting and pretty positive, despite Tennant’s xenomorphic metaphors!Our main paper Residual emissions are the stuff that requires the Net in Net Zero - the emissions that can’t be (or, at least, aren’t) eliminated and have to be balance...
2023-11-091h 05Let Me Sum UpContracts For Indifference? Equity v Social EquityWe start with a quick summary of the High Court of Australia’s decision in Vanderstock v Victoria, which struck down as unconstitutional the State of Victoria’s Distance Based Charge on Zero and Low Emissions Vehicles (aka the EV Tax). But we rapidly descend into an unqualified but compelling fiesta of legal speculation - is State-based EV taxation really dead, and what other unrelated taxes and charges might now be unsound?Our main paper More and more governments have been making use of Contracts for Difference as a tool of energy and climate policy - fir...
2023-10-261h 00Let Me Sum Up“(You gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Partly Reform Policy Analysis)” feat The BCA BoysWe begin with the highs and lows of the International Energy Agency’s updated 1.5 Degrees Scenario, which notes fast progress on scaleup of key technologies that is - just - compensating for slow progress on emissions reductions. IEA reckon 1.5 degrees is still possible without immense reliance on overshoot and net negative emissions; but there’s a big gap between what would be needed to achieve that and most economies’ current plans.Our main paper Benefit-cost analysis informs - and sometimes dictates - a lot of policy decisions about climate and energy, and how the sums are don...
2023-10-121h 03Let Me Sum UpFour Headings And No Numerals: Narrative Based Climate ScenariosThis satisfyingly hourlong episode (you’re welcome) starts with a discussion of the United Kingdom’s recent reset of climate policies, which PM Rishi Sunak casts as a “more pragmatic, proportionate and realistic approach” to Net Zero, and others decry as a mix of backsliding on things that matter and cancellation of things that weren’t even proposed.* Is this a sign of things to come?Maybe, say the (prescient? Or simply well-hedged?) authors of…Our main paper … “No Time To Lose: New Scenario Narratives for Action on Climate Change” by Mark Cliffe and teams fr...
2023-09-281h 00Let Me Sum UpYou Must Remember Hon, A Tonne Is Not A Tonne, On That You Can RelyNewly informed and inspired by generous listener survey responses, LMSU bullseyes the 1 hour median YOU demanded! That’s the power of data.Carbon Leakage Corner:This ep we start with the Australian Government’s Carbon Leakage Review, which has found its supreme commander in the form of universally respected ANU boffin Prof Frank Jotzo. Somehow Tennant discusses this without CBAM taking over the whole episode. Our main paper:… is the Climate Change Authority’s April 2023 “Reduce, remove and store: The role of carbon sequestration in accelerating Australia’s decarbonisation”It’s a thought...
2023-09-1457 minLet Me Sum Up"Mo Energy Market Mo Energy Problems (NEM Diss Track)” feat. The Notorious RBDFrankie’s maternity leave is well underway (it’s a girl!) meaning a new host graciously filling in (Alison Reeve) and a new shownote-writer rather less graciously filling in (Tennant).After briefly speculating on the virtues of peak energy nerd board game Power Grid (none of us have played it, but we hear good things!) we make a fresh listener appeal: tell us how we’re doing with the podcast and what you want, including shorter/longer episodes and more/less energy/Dungeons & Dragons crossover content, in our quick and easy survey. You’ll be glad you did!...
2023-08-311h 10Let Me Sum UpGenCost or GenCON?! Level Heads on Levelised CostsIt’s GAS CRISIS CORNER redux this week and so 2022 as European gas markets were seriously spooked. Russia? Nyet this time! In fact a response to developments far closer to home with potential industrial action at WA offshore LNG plants owned by Chevron and Woodside driving prices up by 40%. Yikes! With these plants collectively responsible for over 10% of global gas exports your intrepid hosts wondered whether the diversification juggernaut could be coming for Oz LNG. We shall see.GenCost or GenCON? That is the question Sumerupperers as An Honest Broker, A Cleanskin and An Ultra Centrist unpack th...
2023-08-171h 05Let Me Sum UpIEA Asks: Can You Dig It?FLAMING HOT news out of Victoria – the State Government’s announcement of a ban on planning permits for gas connections to new homes from 1 Jan 2024 – had your intrepid hosts speculating on whether this is indeed the beginning of the end for domestic gas use in Australia. A big call but consensus was that this is an inflection point!And that wasn’t the only news to share with our Summeruppers this week. Dun dun DUNNNN!! It turns out that in addition to recording the occasional pod with Luke and Tennant, Frankie has been growing a tiny human who is a...
2023-08-031h 03Let Me Sum UpWhat The World Needs Now Is Wonks, Climate Wonks (1965)In this week’s very special episode, your intrepid hosts eschew the usual compilation of current climate affairs (it’s not like much is happening anyway) and jump into the LMSU DeLorean to time warp our way back to 1965 USA where the ties are paisley, the clothes psychedelically tie-dyed and the climate science prescient (albeit mostly being done by a bunch of white guys).For this week’s paper we present to you Summerupperers a veritable rolled gold classic climate paper, ‘Restoring the Quality of Our Environment - Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel’ from the President’s Science Ad...
2023-07-2051 minLet Me Sum UpHow Do You Solve a Problem Like My Heater? Grattan’s Get-Off-Gas PlanWe start this week’s show with Tennant taking on tech titan Elon Musk by combining his two great two loves in SPREADSHEETS and SPACE to cast some serious shade on Musk’s plans around Mars colonisation, with hot takes on implications for Hydrogen along the way.Your intrepid hosts also revisit the latest quarterly update from the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Dec 2022 and try as Frankie might to induce sleepiness a la BBC shipping forecast readouts with the numbers, no dice! TLDR: emissions reduction flatlined and there is cause for concern that the rollout of ener...
2023-07-061h 23Let Me Sum UpInfinite cathedrals vs grandkids in the meatgrinder? Choosing discount ratesSummerupperers, it’s our birrrrtthday and we want to say a giant THANK YOU for listening this past year we’ve been in your ears! You're the reason we started this crazy podcasting adventure - we wanted to create a supportive space for all the climate professionals out there who pour so much of themselves into their work and passion for climate action, and it’s been a genuine delight to meet many of you in person at the various goings on since we launched the pod.Now down to business in Bonn. Specifically, the Bonn Climate Confer...
2023-06-221h 00Let Me Sum UpEU academy adjudicates hydrogen vs. electrification smackdown!Is the recently announced Australia-US Climate, Critical Minerals and Clean Energy Transformation Compact going to mean Australia gets to ride the wave of the subsidy superbonanza Inflation Reduction Act rather than get dumped by it? Perhaps too soon to tell, but your intrepid hosts can always be relied on for a hot take! *Shirtfranking with Frontie* includes a PSA for the very excellent app for ethical brand ratings, Good On You, and a rundown on known forced labour and modern slavery risks in cotton t-shirt supply chains. And because all roads lead to climate chat on this po...
2023-06-081h 19Let Me Sum UpPatient Capital Says: Hurry Up, Australia!Jump into the LMSU DeLorean for a trip back in time to an episode recorded before our recent Budget Spectacular. With the power vested in him as LMSU Global Vice President for editing the show, Luke has wisely excised budget predictions but kept our then hot (now only slightly warm) takes on Australia's new National Net Zero Authority. This is but a pit stop on the path to the true focus of the opening segment though: the extremely important matter of our burgeoning t-shirt empire gets its own corner on the pod! That’s right, your intrepid hosts are in...
2023-05-251h 04Let Me Sum UpLMSU 2023–24 Budget Spectacular: Cinderella goes to the ball!We interrupt regularly scheduled programming of your fortnightly 45-min (you laugh, but we actually managed it this time!) deep dive into climate and energy papers of note to bring you LMSU’s 2023-24 Budget Spectacular!That’s right! Strap in Summerupperers, your intrepid hosts are coming in hot with takes on the climate and energy-related budget announcements from the Albanese Government’s second budget. There’s just a bit to unpack here.BONUS CHALLENGE for eagle-eared Summeruppers: to what are we referring in our subtitle ‘Cinderella goes to the ball’? *Hint*: our back catalogue may have the ans...
2023-05-1146 minLet Me Sum UpIEYay or IENay? Australia’s energy policy report cardHands up who wants Tennant to complete his rewording of ‘We didn’t start the fire’ for the pod?! Now that you’ve had the taste of Billy Joel-goes LMSU you didn’t know you needed in your lives, your intrepid hosts weigh into the week’s developments by zeroing in on the government’s release of their electric vehicle strategy. Overhyped? Perhaps, but while there are a lot of familiar things on the menu, there’s a new CAFE in town and we don’t mean the hipster coffee variety either! That’s right, we’re looking at the introduc...
2023-04-271h 25Let Me Sum UpPC PSA: Just say ‘no’ to charismatic abatement!This week’s episode is one we prepared earlier (26 March 2023 to be exact) which means past us have just found out that Labor won the NSW election, and we don’t yet know the Safeguard Mechanism reforms are destined to pass Parliament with Greens support. Slightly confusing, but bear with us as we forge ahead, titillating and teasing our dear Summeruperers with the promise of Tennant’s t-shirt designs invoking Die Hard/Die Harder but make it Safeguard. Folks, if you want to see the glory that is the ‘Safe Guarder’ premier LMSU t-shirt design start your twitter eng...
2023-04-131h 13Let Me Sum UpSafe Guard with a VengeanceCompleting our triumphant trilogy* of trilogues** on the Safeguard Mechanism, we’re back and it’s Safe Guard With a Vengeance! That’s right, we’re bringing you a special Rapid Response to Developments as the Safeguard(s?) reforms make their way through the Parliament following the Albanese Government’s deal with the Australian Greens.And if it wasn’t already Christmas come early for you crazy climatephiles, your intrepid hosts are joined by a very special guest, none other than Guardian Australia’s climate and environment editor, Adam Morton! Adam has been obsessively cataloguing the Safeguard reforms - with...
2023-03-3050 minLet Me Sum UpWatch out, free riders! It’s the Bill’s Angels!Your intrepid hosts start this week’s rollicking rollercoaster by recounting the annual rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth that arises from AEMO’s Gas Statement of Opportunities, affectionately(?) known as the GSOO! How worried should we be about the market operator’s forecast on next year’s demand and longer term outlook on the supply of fossil gas? You may be shocked that there were differing perspectives out there in energy land (including some very sensible suggestions from friend of the pod Tristan Edis)! A shout out to Thomas Longden, one of the authors of last pod’...
2023-03-231h 14Let Me Sum UpI got them H2 bluesFrankie and Tennant start the pod by making Luke jealous for missing their serendipitous Sydney airport rendez-vous late on a Monday evening before reflecting on the quality of T Reed’s ties and pivoting to the IRApocalyse we find ourselves in? Your intrepid hosts discuss whether, as some are contending, the IRA will eat Australia’s renewable hydrogen lunch. With serious subsidies flowing in the US threatening to cannibalise investment in green hydrogen elsewhere (here!), it seems a prudent step for Australia to review our 2019 Hydrogen strategy. Our colourful climate conundrum this week* is ‘Clean’ Hydrogen? An analysis...
2023-03-091h 01Let Me Sum UpCarbon dioxide removal: We’re running behind on the backup plan for running behindWhat would Bing’s chatbot make of your intrepid hosts’ attempts to achieve the elusive 45 minute podcast we promised our Summeruperers all that time ago? As T Reed conjures increasingly elaborate powerpoints that (so far) have failed to keep us in line, we’ve decided to stick with Clippy for fear of Bing chatbot seeking to turn us against each other Yoko Ono style and breaking up the pod. Welcome to your fortnightly one-hour 45 minute podcast!We revisit the last fire in the forest this week as the fear of Safeguard embers dimming is on minds across the Au...
2023-02-231h 05Let Me Sum UpNew Dork Times: Chubb/Safeguard Special Double Report Report SpecialWeeeeee’re baaaack! Miss us? A very happy 2023 to you Summerupperers, we hope you all had a fabulous break and respite from reading ALL the climate and energy papers. And as we kick things off in the new year, the landscape is serene and quiet, not a climate paper or consultation in sight… *jokes* *trigger warning*Before diving into our double header, we note some early success for Tennant’s weird-and-until-recently-rather-obscure obsession with CBAMs because, in their Safeguard mechanism design paper, the Government committed to a review of policy options to further address carbon leakage - including an Aus...
2023-02-091h 29Let Me Sum UpLMSU Holiday Special 2022: Don’t Sum UpIn this EXTRA SPECIAL HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR your intrepid hosts eschew the normal dissection of climate and energy reports and instead, in an exercise of regrettable democratic process, critique a climate movie of YOUR choice, dear Summerupperers.But before we do that, we kick off with the inaugural awarding of our favourite climate and energy paper of 2022. This award, which most-definitely-will-not-be-named-the-Papies, was awarded to… DRUMROLL pleeeeease…..'Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition’ from Rupert Way, Matthew C. Ives, Penny Mealy and J. Doyne Farmer from Oxford University. AKA the learning rates paper! A very worthy...
2022-12-301h 06Let Me Sum UpUN expert group targets zero net zero target flimflam!Perhaps for the final time in 2022 your intrepid hosts reconvene ENERGY CRISIS CORNER. Why you might ask? Only: the spectacular recall of the Federal Parliament to pass legislation on a price cap for wholesale gas for the next year, $3bn in bill relief for vulnerable Australians to be jointly paid by the Commonwealth and the states, price caps on coal to be enacted by the states AND somewhere in there a significant commitment to fund energy efficiency and electrification for households and businesses, $TBA. So y’know. #fairbitonThis week we discuss one of the bagillion reports la...
2022-12-211h 12Let Me Sum UpOne climate statement to rule them all (and in the Hansard bind them)Recovered from epic Egyptian adventures your intrepid hosts begin by revisiting the final outcomes of the formal negotiations at COP27. That’s not the only thing we revisited though! This video of Tennant’s Beat Saber antics in the ruins of the Australia pavilion as he and Luke waited until the bitter end of COP is well worth a watch. You’re welcome ;-)This week we unpack the Albanese Government’s first Annual Climate Change Statement, tabled by Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen in the Parliament last week, as required under the recently passed Climate...
2022-12-071h 15Let Me Sum UpCOP27? Let Me Sharm UpRecorded on the ground in Sharm El-Sheikh as negotiations got to the pointy end of things at COP27, your intrepid hosts ditch the usual format in this very special episode of Let Me Sum Up.Listen in as we dive into all things COP27: the hot button issues in the negotiations, the vibe on the ground and around the pavilions, Team Australia’s presence at this COP (coffee diplomacy included) as well as our personal highlights across an incredibly packed couple of weeks full of speeches, events and launches of papers! So many papers! Don’t worry Summ...
2022-11-241h 10Let Me Sum UpBonus: Live from the Bedouin Tent at COP27In this short bonus episode your intrepid hosts are joined by CEO of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, Darren Miller to unpack the latest from COP27 in Egypt. You will learn of Darren's heroics in the Australia Pavilion, why there is 'no way' negotiations will be done by Friday, and hear our hosts react to the unexpected appearance of a certain US Climate Envoy in the Bedouin Tent.There is a video version of this episode! To see John Kerry crash a recording of Let Me Sum Up with your own eyes click here.
2022-11-1712 minLet Me Sum UpMeasure twice, cut nunce? Tackling methane from Aussie coal minesIn a tantalising pre-COP27 gathering your intrepid hosts start by dissecting the implications of the Australian Government's commitment to sign up to the Global Methane Pledge. An initiative spear-headed by the EU and US ahead of COP26, the pledge requires signatories to commit to cutting methane emissions 30% on 2020 levels by 2030. More seaweed coming to a trough near your friendly neighbourhood cows? Most certainly, but as always, there are sectors that present more quick wins (read on!) and others that will be slower to mooove.The locus of our focus this week is a paper by UK-based think...
2022-11-091h 04Let Me Sum UpBonus: We're going to COP27In this short bonus episode, your intrepid hosts reveal they are all going to COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh. They also speculate on the possibility of Let Me Sum Up Live from Sharm – an event which is in no way organised, but if you will it dude, it is no dream...
2022-11-0204 minLet Me Sum UpKa-ching! Act now for huge learning rate savings!This week your intrepid hosts recapped some BIG news out of Victoria with the announcement of new emissions reduction targets - 75% to 80% (on 2005 levels) by 2035, net zero by 2045 and a renewable electricity target of 95% by 2035. Wowser! The first government in Australia to formalise a 2035 target which has significant implications for the decarbonisation of fossil gas during that timeframe deserves a special shout out! Your resident Victorian co-hosts lamented the overhyped media focus on the revival of state-owned power company SEC with a measly $1Bn in funding - even if they do have a fab retro logo.A...
2022-10-261h 07Let Me Sum UpHorsemen 4, Humans 0? Apocalyptic climate scenariosThis week in our tenth episode (woot!) your intrepid hosts reconvene ENERGY CRISIS CORNER and oh boy there was no shortage of fodder for us to traverse. From the UK where gas reserves are low but the hubris is high and they’ll be capping energy bills and paying people to use less at peak times, to our French friends who’ve coined the best moniker for their efforts in La Sobriete Energetique (Energy Sobriety) campaign with voluntary measures to save 10% energy use. The debate is also running hot in the EU about how they will pay for Fit for...
2022-10-1359 minLet Me Sum UpFix homes, help hospitals: The Victorian Healthy Homes ProgramThis week your intrepid hosts recap some listener mail from friend of the pod, Dylan McConnell, who boldly contends that some of our critiques on IAMs could be appropriately directed closer to home at the ISP. Also Dylan earns mega bonus points by renaming the ISP as our very own energy system HEGELIAN DIALECTIC. If we called it that we might get even less focus on the process because shiny hegelian dialectic people. Hell Yes!The paper we explored this time represents perhaps peak wonk in the just released Victorian Healthy Homes Program research findings. The program w...
2022-09-281h 01Let Me Sum UpBonus: Sugar and spiceIn this short bonus episode, your intrepid hosts make a series of increasingly aggressive pitches for the pod, and finally explain Frankie's official LMSU job title.Remember to rate, review, like and subscribe 😉 We'll be back with a full episode next week!
2022-09-2203 minLet Me Sum UpAssessing climate pledge credibility, or laundering feelpinions?Your intrepid hosts failed to start a flame war with friends of the pod over the relative merits of IAMs so we were forced to reconvene ENERGY CRISIS CORNER. And wowser, the past week has provided plenty of fodder there! We recap Russia’s brinkmanship on threatening to cut off gas supply to Europe altogether, triggering an emergency meeting of EU energy ministers last Friday at which several policy responses were discussed but nothing agreed. Will the EU move to put price caps on all imported gas? It’s looking likely but the ramifications will be far and wide and c...
2022-09-1449 minLet Me Sum Up'The last fire in the forest': The Safeguard Mechanism consultation paperThis week your intrepid hosts return some friendly fire from esteemed peer and friend of the pod Erwin Jackson! Despite Erwin’s commentary on the positive role IAMs have played aligning the finance sector around rallying support for a 1.5C scenario, one currently immuno-compromised T. Reed refused to de-escalate and doubled down on the critique. Frankie weighed in on guard rails and it all went south quickly. We await further commentary from Erwin and others to populate our newly minted IAM CRISIS CORNER section of the pod :-) Our deep dive this week sees us wade into cont...
2022-08-311h 06Let Me Sum Up‘An orange, a picture of an apple and a mandarine shaped eraser’: Critiquing Integrated Assessment ModelsThis week your intrepid hosts cast their attention abroad to the historic passing of the Inflation Reduction Act in the US and the $370 Bn odd of investment into climate action it contains. Now just waiting for the stroke of Joe Biden’s many pens, this will be a relief for many Democrats seeking re-election in the upcoming midterms.For our deep dive report we go FULL METAL WONK and attempt to average an orange, a picture of an apple and a mandarin-shaped eraser… no wait, that’s what Integrated Assessment Models do and underpin little-read things like the IP...
2022-08-1859 minLet Me Sum UpInfrastructure Victoria presents 'A Very December 2021 Gas Report'This week your intrepid hosts braved some interstate travel craziness (the things we do for you) and came together IN 3D REAL LIFE AND EVERYTHING to bring you this pod from Wurundjeri land.We have been loving the energy twitterati folks having at our ISP episode and in response to our follow up question “what would you want to see in a supercharged ISP?” we received plenty of excellent fodder from friends of the pod Emma, Tom Quinn, Craig Memery and more! A no-surprises tech scenario, a supercharged electrification/green hydrogen one as well as the fraught ques...
2022-08-0356 minLet Me Sum Up‘If you will it, Dude, it is no dream’: AEMO's 2022 Integrated System PlanIn this episode your intrepid hosts recap listener feedback say WHAAAAT! While basking in the glow of our dear listeners – proving both their existence AND interest in our musings – we:do a combined shout out to Laura Hamilton O'Hara at Living Future Institute of Australia for letting us know their Declare Material transparency label has recently expanded to include embodied carbon, as well as the team at NABERS and GBCA who are leading some important work for governments on embodied carbon in the buildings sectorcelebrate IRENA finally releasing Part I of their Hydrogen paper series (Trade outlook for 2050 and...
2022-07-2054 minLet Me Sum UpElementary, my dear IRENA: Hydrogen transportIn this timeless episode (recorded before Luke and Frankie departed for Europe on an energy efficiency delegation) your intrepid hosts crack out the crystal ball to make wild predictions on what those occupied in ENERGY CRISIS CORNER might be concerned with by the time the episode is live. Energy is still expensive! We are all in an Antopocalypse under the totalitarian Antonese regime! Wait, what? Exactly.Our report for this week is………. Part II of IRENA's series on Global Hydrogen Trade to Meet the 1.5C Climate Goal, a Technology Review of Hydrogen Carriers! We *still* cannot find Part I...
2022-07-0742 minLet Me Sum UpGold medal, gold foil or aluminium? The VCMI’s draft Claims Code of ConductIn this episode, your intrepid hosts reconvene ENERGY CRISIS CORNER where the landscape is hellish but the feeling between energy ministers is decidedly warm and fuzzy following their get together and commitment to a host of sensible things (at the time of recording, AEMO had not yet suspended the NEM wholesale spot market for the first time ever, *wowsers*). After Tennant laments a bad week for CBAM enthusiasts with stalled progress of legislation in the EU Parliament, we dive into the paper for this week which was….The Voluntary Carbon Markets Initiative (VCMI) draft Claims Code of Pr...
2022-06-2353 minLet Me Sum UpIPCC reveals how to decarbonise your industry with these 100 weird tricks!Our very first episode of Let Me Sum Up is here and so is Australia's energy apocalypse (remember, correlation is not causation, folks). Your intrepid hosts open by surveying the challenging conditions facing households, businesses and policymakers as electricity and gas prices hit historic highs.After a brief detour into just how late to the ball 'energy efficiency Cinderella' can afford to be, they unpack the podcast's very first report, drum roll pleeeeease….The 'Industry' chapter of 'Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change' report from Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IP...
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First Fuel68: 'A climate election' with Frankie Muskovic and Tennant ReedIn Episode 68 of First Fuel, Energy Efficiency Council CEO Luke Menzel is joined live at the National Energy Efficiency Conference 2022 with two guests: Francesca Muskovic, National Policy Manager for Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at the Property Council of Australia, and Tennant Reed, Head of Climate, Energy and Environment Policy at Australian Industry Group.
Luke, Frankie and Tennant chat about – what else – the results of the 2022 Federal election.
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2022-05-3119 minLet Me Sum UpTrailer: About Let Me Sum UpThis is the trailer for Let Me Sum Up, your regular deep dive on recent reports on climate and energy.Every fortnight energy and climate wonks Frankie Muskovic, Tennant Reed and Luke Menzel will read a report on climate and energy, then talk about it. They'll also talk about other stuff, often (but not always) energy and climate related!Send us your hot tips and suggestions for papers we should be reading to mailbag@letmesumup.net, xeet ‘em at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic, or blu ‘em at @lukemenzel.bsky.social, @tennantreed.bsky.social and...
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First Fuel35: Grubby centrism with Frankie Muskovic and Tennant ReedIn Episode 35 of First Fuel, Energy Efficiency Council CEO Luke Menzel is joined by two guests: Francesca Muskovic, National Policy Manager for Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at the Property Council of Australia, and Tennant Reed, Head of Climate, Energy and Environment Policy at Australian Industry Group.
Luke, Frankie and Tennant discuss what is on the energy and climate agenda for 2021, how it will be shaped by the newly-minted Biden administration, and what it all means for Australia.
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2021-02-0351 minFirst Fuel29: Biden and climate with Frankie Muskovic and Tennant ReedIn Episode 29 of First Fuel, Energy Efficiency Council CEO Luke Menzel is joined by two guests: Francesca Muskovic, National Policy Manager for Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at the Property Council of Australia, and Tennant Reed, Head of Climate, Energy and Environment Policy at Australian Industry Group.
Luke, Frankie and Tennant unpack Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 United States Presidential election and what it means for American climate policy. They also reflect on the likely flow on effects for global climate talks, and how renewed US interest in climate action may influence the political debate here in Au...
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