Episodes

We’re billing by the hour as we pore over this week's paper, 'Global trends in climate change litigation: 2024 snapshot'.

Your intrepid hosts hop on the Harleys and head down the 'Highway to Hell', the latest Quarterly Essay from climate scientist Joëlle Gergis.

Andrew Dyer's Community Engagement Review received a response from energy ministers last week. But will this set of recs really enable large scale renewable developers to restore their social license? LMSU investigates!

It's a blockbuster double feature this week as our intrepid hosts take on AEMO's 2024 Integrated System Plan AND the University of Exeter's Global Tipping points report. Featuring special guest star Craig Reucassel!

LMSU takes the CBD! Luke, Frankie and special guest Carlos Flores sum up the latest policy developments in reducing building sector emissions in a live recording at the NABERS + CBD conference.

You asked us anything and the Let Me Sum Up crew answered everything for this very special episode fifty extravaganza!

Public Service Announcement: Next episode is our fiftieth (!) so we're doing an Ask Me Anything!

Australia’s Future Gas Strategy serves up shrugging GIFs, sad face emojis, non-zero gas and net zero... strategy?

The Grattan Institute is handing out brickbats, not bouquets to pretty much everyone for their contribution to a messy energy system transition. But the question remains, how do we muddle through the messiness and keep the lights on as coal departs the system? And can we hold out hope for the sunny (and solar powered) uplands beyond?

A Future Made in Australia pulls the old double-reverse-China and we could set up a solar shop at home for the low low price of just $7.8Bn. Bargain!

It’s a big NUP to targets in the NEPS, yet targets abound when it comes to the Climate Change Authority's 2035 vision. But which number is just right?

It’s an odd time to invest in new gas infrastructure but your intrepid hosts beat the pinata that is GSOO 2024 and it keeps on giving… charts and magic gas ships!

Mainstreaming Adaptation or Be As the Vulture?! We dive into the culinary climate cabaret served up by the Government's release of two climate adaptation papers, with a side of US election speculation *Chef's kiss*

Degrowthers decry energy transition as futile struggle and instead call for widespread behaviour manipulation by the marketing industry to stop everyone wanting things and babies.

Baby you can drive my cleaner, cheaper-to-run car. Yes the Australian Government’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard is gonna be a star? And maybe you’ll love our Patreon!

Your intrepid hosts have launched a Patreon! Become a Super Summerupperer and help make the pod sustainable by signing up today!

‘Tis the season Summerupperers, in which your intrepid hosts, having feasted on climate papers all year long, award the second annual Wonky award for our favourite of 2023 and serve up a deliciously spicy climate take on the movie How To Blow Up a Pipeline.

In one final tip o’ the chapeau, your intrepid hosts go from majlis to multilateral manoevres and sum up the spectacular climax of COP28 in Dubai: approval of the first Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement.

Featuring four podcasters and a baby and recorded on the ground in Dubai as negotiations neared the halfway mark at COP28, your intrepid hosts ditch the usual format in this very special episode of Let Me Sum Up.

Your intrepid hosts are glowing with enthusiasm as they unpack the latest offering on the potential for nuclear energy in Australia - a radiant idea or a total meltdown? Views are split.

Your intrepid hosts try to make the sums add up on Residual Emissions - what’s left when we’ve cut everything possible (?) or practical (?) or convenient (?). Nations’ stated strategies are not yet very convincing!

Your intrepid hosts consider the Contracts For Difference increasingly used to promote clean energy development, and whether they increase burdens on the poorest households.

Your intrepid hosts enter the exotic glamorous world of Benefit Cost Analysis, where footloose Biden Administration Kevin Bacons shock uptight traditionalists by prioritising welfare over efficiency.

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?