Let Me Sum Up

In 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 way forward). We remain mystified by the rationale for releasing Part I after Parts II and III, but absolutely claim credit for the release of Part I within 24 hrs of our hydrogen carriers episode going live!and while we're on claiming credit for things, in perhaps our last Gas Substitution Roadmap Corner for a bit, we can only assume our keen interest in this paper's whereabouts drove the Victorian Government's decision to release their roadmap ahead of the state election in November. While there are whispers of a major update next year, for now we will pore over the current version.Want your hot take featured in the next round of follow up? You're in luck! Send your comments, questions (and reports you think we should cover on the show) to [email protected] and we'll see what we can do.With all family business settled, we turn our attention to our whizz bang report for this week….. AEMO's 2022 Integrated System Plan (ISP)! So much to unpack. Guess you’ll have to listen to find out what we think ;-)Tennant's One More Thing (apart from a plea to Katharine Murphy and David Speers to plug the pod) is trilogues! Taking place in the EU (Council, Commission, Parliament) to resolve how to implement their ambitious Fit for 55 legislation, including expanding ETS (will it include transport and heating of buildings?) and Tennant’s favourite topic, the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and whether hydrogen will be in or out. Complex? Yes. Fascinating? For sure!Frankie's One More Thing is the hotly anticipated legislation that will give effect to the Federal Government’s target to reduce emissions by 43% on 2005 levels by 2030. Will the Greens vote in support? Will Labor build a floor not a ceiling? Will the future of coal and gas projects feature in the debate? See two longform interviews with Adam Bandt here and here for some insights and stay tuned!Luke's One More Thing (apart from usurping Frankie’s with the Victorian Opposition’s gauntlet throw down to legislate a net zero by 2050 target for Victoria if elected) is a bit of shameless self promotion for his other work-related pod, First Fuel. For any listeners interested in Luke and Frankie’s German adventures on a recent energy efficiency delegation, you can hear Part I of the wrap on the delegation from Luke, Frankie and ‘rando ring-in’ Carlos Flores, Director of NABERS right here. (We love Carlos, a dear friend of the pod).See you next time! Please keep tweeting your thoughts and suggestions for new papers to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic. On our next episode we will be chatting about the other blockbuster government report on gas in Victoria, Infrastructure Victoria's Towards 2050: Gas infrastructure in a net-zero emissions economy. Didn't see that coming, did you? Blame this bloke.

In 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 (Trade outlook for 2050 and way forward) however since we recorded we have located Part III (Green Hydrogen Cost and Potential). As for Part I, a special prize for any listeners able to unearth this rare gem, which must exist in hardcopy format only under guarded surveillance by Jedi knights in a basement somewhere in IRENA HQ!Tennant's One More Thing is a yet-to-be-available report (set your alarm clocks for March 2023 people) from the Victorian Government on what the state's 2035 emissions targets should be. It will consider the role of specific sectors and will be the first report from an Australian jurisdiction on targets post-2030. Tennant also happens to be helping write the report as a member of the expert panel, so this is must-read stuff! Or will be. In 2023.Frankie's One More Thing is a start-up called Planet Protector Packaging, the brainchild of Joanne Howarth, out to disrupt the use of polystyrene for packaging by using wool from sheep bred commercially for meat and otherwise going to landfill. Kicking some serious circular economy goals.Luke's One More Thing is the latest Australian Energy Emissions Monitor from Dr Hugh Saddler at ANU. TLDR is ongoing progress on renewables but little progress (from perhaps less recent policy focus?) on reducing gas and petroleum emissions.See you next time! Please keep tweeting your thoughts and suggestions for new papers to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic. And for those reading along at home, our next ep will be on AEMO's 2022 Integrated System Plan (ISP).

In 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 Practice!Want to know whether that carbon neutral branded soap in the supermarket gets a gold, silver or bronze for their emissions reduction and offsetting efforts? Tune in to hear what your hosts award this claims code (mithril, aluminium and chocolate coin level recognition is also in the mix). Special shout out to one of our listeners, Joe Karten at Built, for suggesting we tackle this paper.If you feel strongly about this *draft* claims code then don’t stop at podcast commentary, you can make submissions to VCMI until 12 August here.Here is the initiative from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market that will deal with the issues Frankie was really looking for in the claims code, due to be released in Q4 2022. And there is so much more to say. Will the podcast get a regular Carbon Accounting Chronicles segment we hear you ask? Only time will tell!One More ThingTennant’s One More Thing is an encore with the Victorian Gas Substitution Roadmap - never more timely, though it seems we may have to wait until after Victoria’s state election in November to get all the juicy detail.Frankie’s One More Thing was a sneaky twofer with the EU Parliament voting in support of zero emissions cars and light utility vehicles by 2035, and the leader of the German social democrats floating some bold ideas to keep fuel costs down - autobahn speed limit anyone?Luke’s One More Thing is ClimateWorks’ excellent, locally produced complement to the VCMI claims code, Corporate climate action for 1.5 degrees: Best practice for Australian company net zero commitmentsPlease keep tweeting your thoughts and suggestions for new papers to us at @LukeMenzel @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic.Our Next PaperWant to read along with the team? On our next episode we'll be chatting about the International Renewable Energy Agency's fascinating technology review of hydrogen carriers, which focuses on how we transport those promising but pesky hydrogen molecules around.

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 (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report!And what else can't we stop thinking about?Tennant's One More Thing is the hotly anticipated 'Victorian Gas Substitution Roadmap', due for final release... well... maybe next year?Frankie's One More Thing is Renovate Europe, a successful political communications campaign behind the push to reduce the energy demand of the EU's building stock by 80% by 2050.Luke's One More Thing is REPowerEU, the EU's just released plan to rapidly reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels and fast forward the energy transition.See you in two weeks!

This 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 [email protected], xeet ‘em at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic, or blu ‘em at @lukemenzel.bsky.social, @tennantreed.bsky.social and @frankiemuskovic.bsky.social.