With the COP31 bid in the balance and the decision text in the ether your intrepid hosts try to work out what the hell is going on on a tumultuous day at COP30 in Brazil. Featuring special guest COP Maven Alex Scott!
Your intrepid hosts sum up the first week of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Featuring special guest COP-knower, Carbon Brief's Josh Gabbatiss!
Guterres declares overshoot ahoy on 1.5C. In case of emergency, break glass – and disperse diamonds!
It’s our party and we’ll price carbon in the electricity sector if we want to (and I’m not sure QLD is invited).
Devastating. And Motivating. This week we visit with the Ghost of Climate Future in the form of Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.
Your intrepid hosts dig into Treasury’s modelling on Australia’s Net Zero Transformation, one of the flagships in the flotilla of climate reports launched by the Albanese Government last week.
This week, there really is too much: your intrepid hosts make a noble attempt to sum up Australia's 2035 emissions reduction target, plus over 1000 pages of adaptation and mitigation reports, plans and modelling released by the Albanese Government.
YODA (V.O.) Gas is the path to the Wood Side. Gas leads to emissions, emissions leads to warming, warming leads to suffering.
A race to the top or a spiral into the abyss? It’s a petrostate vs electrostate climate geopolitics spectacular, with a side of Productivity Palooza 2025!
A gaggle of green-haired treasury officials, the Productivity Commission, and the ghost of NEM reviews past walk into a bar.
Climate is in the courts but your intrepid hosts are going Tropscho for low-carbon Dom Perignon-priced liquid fuels!
The timeless tale of Love, War and Credible Transition in the Old NEM: GAS WITH THE WIND, feat. one gas review to rule them all and the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy!
We’re electrifying more things in Victoria and bits of NSW, and CBAM enthusiasts are thinking bigger as Clean Energy Finance presents: an Asian Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism!
This episode we're leaning into Australia's productivity palooza and taking an early stake in RABcoin. Why? Dr. Ron Ben-David is back and he’s securitising 500 lb gorillas for fun… and the gas transition. Featuring special guest Alison Reeve!
Because three years in, we’re still not done talking about gas, climate politics, nimbyism, and... T-shirts!!!
We're stroking our chins and counting prospective clean economy dollarbucks this week with the Superpower Institute’s fleshed-out manifesto for Australia leadership in superpower trade. Next stop: WORLD DOMINATION!!!
In this bonus episode we dig into the detail on what the Australian federal election means for climate and energy policy.
Your intrepid hosts sift through the rubble of the 2025 Australian federal election, and consider what the shellacking for the Coalition and the sizeable majority won by Labor means for climate and energy policy.
Your intrepid hosts dig into the early data on Safeguard Mechanism 2.0 and a new paper from climate consultancy Systemiq that proposes some shock therapy for the global climate movement.
Your intrepid hosts examine new IEEFA analysis of the Victorian Government's plans for household gas appliance phaseout. Suffice to say, they are bringing the rizz!
Your intrepid hosts really should have gone to bed on Tuesday night, but instead they fired up the mics to share the hottest of hot takes on the 2025-26 Federal Budget.
Your intrepid hosts embark on some meta analysis of the meta analysis contained in the new report from the Blueprint Institute and the McKell Institute, 'How the Sausage is Made: Assessing Australian Policymaking Practices in the Energy Sector'.
It’s 2025 and BOOM BOOM we’re back baby! LMSU returns with a double nuclear paper spectacular, featuring special guest Alison Reeve!
In this, our third annual Holiday Special, all lingering plot threads are resolved: Is Tennant still talking to Frankie after she waged a brutal social media campaign to secure her triumph in the movie listener poll? Who won the 2024 Wonky Award for Best Climate And Energy Paper? And are we totally…