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 investigating the most sustainable way to produce some seriously magic merch for you Summerupperers and will keep you posted as we delve into the depths of this particular rabbit hole of sustainable t-shirt procurement. AND if this happens to be YOUR area of expertise, we want to hear from you with all the tips you can bestow! This week’s paper is a recent selection from the Investor Group on Climate Change's recent back-catalogue of publications, Driving Australian Climate Innovation: Unlocking capital to support a clean industrial revolution. Let’s just say the patient capital is not so patient!Frankie’s One More Thing is the other recent IGCC paper she thought we were supposed to read for the pod - WRONG! - but a great read nonetheless, The State of Australian Net Zero Investment. This survey of a hefty cohort of Australia’s institutional asset owners and managers reveals progress on net zero commitments, interim targets and a growing interest in pure-play climate transition investments, rare birds though they may be in Aus right now. Tennant’s One More Thing is the release of the draft Mandatory Gas Industry Code of Conduct, which unlike the voluntary version of said code (responsible for sucking many irretrievable hours of his life away) looks able to do things! Among the more controversial things is the ability to maintain price caps on domestic gas use for the next couple of years. And then of course there is the question of what happens next?Luke’s One More Thing is a recent episode of the excellent Watt Matters pod, featuring not one but TWO friends of LMSU, and not one but TWO experts on heat pumps who nerd out on… heat pumps! More precisely, the growth of heat pumps in the European market and their intersection with the tricky issue of regulating the phase out of F-gases. If you’re not already fans of Dr. Jan Rosenow and Thomas Nowak then frankly do you even climate? Get onto it folks!And that’s all from us this week Summerupperers! We shall see you next time and until then, please keep tweeting your thoughts to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some golden threads through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at [email protected]

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 answers. *Hint hint*: it’s definitely not Frankie’s attendance at the budget lockup (even though that might be her idea of a policy wonk’s good time). Tweet/LinkedIn us your guess!If 46 minutes of sweet sweet budget content isn't enough, Luke and Tennant have been talking budget measures on LinkedIn this week (because Twitter is going to hell): See Luke's wrap of energy budget measures, featuring bonus debate in the comments, including a great conversation on the utility of the CEFC capital injection for residential energy performance upgrades.And find out what Tennant's famous dodgy spreadsheet says about what the Hydrogen Headstart program might achieve.And that’s all from us this week Summerupperers! We shall see you next time and until then, please keep tweeting your thoughts on all things climate and energy to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some golden threads through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at [email protected]

Hands 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 introduction of the first fuel efficiency standards in Australia, with a consultation running until the end of May on the design.This week we dive into the Energy System Transformation section of the just-released IEA country assessment, ‘Australia 2023: Energy Policy Review’. With lots to say about the energy sector’s response to climate change, progress on energy efficiency, renewable energy and R&D, this report packs a lot of punch and your intrepid hosts have more than a few hot takes of our own!But wait, there's more: it’s a shameless week of self-dealing when it comes to One More Things!Frankie’s One More Thing is the launch of Every Building Counts, the Property Council and Green Building Council’s joint policy platform for a zero-carbon-ready and resilient built environment. Frankie is a bit chuffed to be launching this report, which also comes hot on the heels of Jim Chalmers’ investor roundtable on energy with some significant commitments to energy efficiency ratings for homes. Huzzah!Luke’s One More Thing is a new report from the EEC’s resident efficiency guru, Rob Murray-Leach, Clean Energy, Clean Demand. A cracking read and roadmap for optimising the role of demand management as the grid gets greener. And because he’s a cheeky bugger with a sneaky twofer, he’s dared to plug his *gasp* other podcast here! Tragics that we are, we still can’t resist a plug for A Very ETI Episode of First Fuel, unpacking the excellent report from Climateworks Centre and Climate KIC just released on pathways to industrial decarbonisation.Tennant’s One More Thing is a bastion of integrity with no self-interest in sight. He’s flagging a flurry of activity in the US on a series of regulatory ‘sticks’ in the form of regulations from the EPA, addressing tightening of vehicle fuel efficiency standards, emissions of power plants and emissions from the gas sector. Quite the contrast from the hurricane of carrots that is the Inflation Reduction Act!  And that’s all from us this week Summerupperers! We shall see you next time and until then, please keep tweeting your thoughts to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some golden threads through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at [email protected]

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 engines and let the spamming begin!Before we dive into this week’s paper we discuss the recent release of the IPCC’s Synthesis report, completing the Sixth Assessment Report. The last major report we’ll see from the IPCC prior to the end of this critical decade, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned, the “climate time-bomb is ticking” and we need “climate action on all fronts - everything, everywhere, all at once.” Hear, hear!This week’s paper is a swashbuckling sum-up (slaying?) of Volume 6: Managing the climate transition, part of the national Productivity Commission’s latest 5-yearly productivity inquiry, the 1,000 page monster Advancing Prosperity. A hard no for charismatic abatement but a yes on one economy-wide policy to rule them all, your intrepid hosts have thoughts! Many, many thoughts.Tennant’s One More Thing is a shout out to the smart folks in NSW Treasury on a newly produced guideline, TPG23-08 NSW Government Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis, which bakes in a value of carbon referencing the EU ETS spot price (around $140/tonne). Super interesting prospects for government policy making. Kudos NSW Treasury peeps!Frankie’s One More Thing is the recent (well it was when we recorded!) NSW election result with the NSW Labor party claiming victory for the first time in twelve years. Recapping key climate election commitments, a good foundation and plenty of room for more ambition!Luke’s One More Thing completes the NSW trifecta with a shout out to outgoing NSW Treasurer, Energy and Climate Minister, Matt Kean, for championing the economic opportunities of the climate transition and his contribution to bipartisan climate policy in recent years. A hat tip to you, Matt!And that’s all from us this week Summerupperers! We shall see you next time and until then, please keep tweeting your thoughts to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some golden threads through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at [email protected]

Completing 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 a vengeance dare we say - read some of his excellent coverage here.And that’s all from us this week Summerupperers! We shall see you next time and until then, please keep tweeting your thoughts to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some golden threads through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at [email protected]* See Episode 7 - ‘The last fire in the forest’: The Safeguard Mechanism consultation paper and Episode 17 - New Dork Times: Chubb/Safeguard Special Double Report Report Special, or ‘Safe Guarder’ as we affectionately know it!** Two of which involved four people!MASSIVE DOWN & DIRTY DISCLAIMER: We recorded this episode on Wednesday evening, 29 March, and who knows what additional shenanigans may have occurred by the time this ep is hitting your ears! If you’re as tragic as us, you can track the Bill’s progress through Parliament here. Or just read the news!