Episodes

Your intrepid hosts jauntily amble into a bunfight over “decision-relevant climate scenarios”. Standard scenarios heavily rely on janky, limited, terrible integrated assessment models. A new paper asks: what if they didn’t?

WONDER! as the Climate Change Authority tries to reset the debate on Carbon Dioxide Removal and how to do it well. GASP! in horror at the strained metaphors your intrepid hosts deploy to describe carbon sequestration.

Your intrepid hosts goggle as a forefather of the National Electricity Market declares his own co-creation past its use-by date in ‘Rethinking markets, regulation and governance for the energy for the energy transition.’

Your intrepid hosts resist the urge to flip straight to the LCOE tables and actually read CSIRO's 2022-23 GenCost report.

Your intrepid hosts reflect on the raw materials that are essential for the clean energy revolution with the International Energy Agency's 'Critical Minerals Market Review 2023'.

Your intrepid hosts discuss a seminal climate paper from 1965, 'Restoring the Quality of Our Environment - Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel’ from the President’s Science Advisory Council.

Your intrepid hosts unpack the Grattan Institute's big new report on decarbonising residential gas use 'Getting off gas: Why, how, and who should pay?'

Your intrepid hosts delve into the depths of discount rates with the dense but delightful 'Discounting the Distant Future: A Critique of the EPA’s Analysis of the Social Cost of Carbon’.

Your intrepid hosts gaze into the crystal ball which is the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council's new report, The Future of Gas.

Your intrepid hosts discuss the Investor Group on Climate Change's new report 'Driving Australian Climate Innovation: Unlocking capital to support a clean industrial revolution.'

Your intrepid hosts unpack the climate and energy measures in the 2023-24 Australian Budget.

Your intrepid hosts review the International Energy Agency's 'Australia 2023: Energy Policy Review'.

Your intrepid hosts ponder the climate volume from the Productivity Commission’s latest 5-yearly productivity inquiry, 'Advancing Prosperity'.

Your intrepid hosts are joined by Guardian Australia Climate and Environment Editor Adam Morton to discuss the big package of reforms to the Safeguard Mechanism agreed in Parliament this week.

Your intrepid hosts take on two papers – including William Nordhaus' 'Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International Climate Policy' – that consider whether climate clubs are our best hope to supercharge global climate action.

Your intrepid hosts consider what the 'clean' actually means in "‘Clean’ Hydrogen? An analysis of the emissions and costs of fossil fuel based versus renewable electricity based hydrogen."

Your intrepid hosts discuss the prospects for sucking carbon out of the atmosphere laid out in 'The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal'.

Your intrepid hosts embark on a possibly ill-considered attempt to sum up both Professor Ian Chubb’s review into Australian Carbon Credit Units and the Albanese Government's Safeguard Mechanism design paper.

On this EXTRA SPECIAL HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR your intrepid hosts award the First Annual Let Me Sum Up Award for Best Climate and Energy Report, before ditching the reports to dissect disaster flick cum climate allegory Don’t Look Up.

Your intrepid hosts tackle a blueprint for no greenwashing from the UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Commitments of Non-State Entities: ‘Integrity Matters: Net Zero Commitments by Businesses, Financial Institutions, Cities and Regions’

Your intrepid hosts unpack the Australian Government's first Annual Climate Change Statement – and related bonus content!

Your intrepid hosts ditch the standard format to give you the down-low direct from COP27 in this very special episode of Let Me Sum Up.

In 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.

Your intrepid hosts dig deep into 'Tackling Australia's Coal Mine Methane Problem.'