Melbourne-based climate & energy policy wonk with Australian Industry Group. CBAM obsessive. Cohost of the Let Me Sum Up podcast. Bonus nerdery & food!
Melbourne, Victoria
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OUT NOW and get in quick: a Low Carbon Liquid Fuels demand policy is being designed. Subs due next week! What’s in it? The only possible way to find out is via Let Me Sum Up, here: letmesumup.net/i-can-fly-hig…
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OUT NOW and get in quick: a Low Carbon Liquid Fuels demand policy is being designed. Subs due next week! What’s in it? The only possible way to find out is via Let Me Sum Up, here: letmesumup.net/i-can-fly-hig…
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Okay, technically you could read the consultation paper here: consult.dcceew.gov.au/securi…
Also featured this episode:
DC imbroglio (which one??)
UNEP calls Overshoot
Now you’re cooking with Pears (and a battery)
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OUT NOW: suppose the world breaches 2C by midcentury. What might happen next? An elaborate student project explores four plausible futures on a spectrum from dismay to disaster. The Let Me Sum Up podcast grits its teeth and summarises for you!
Pod: letmesumup.net/above-2degc-r…
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The project is a website, after2c.com, drawing on published research, recent history and speculative fiction in a very interesting way. By Prof Dagomar Degroot and his Existential Risk class students.
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OUT NOW: oil crises, solar booms, coal flat most places but surging in the US: there’s a lot going on in world energy! What better way to make sense of it all than a comprehensive stat-tastic Review? LMSU dives in to 75 years of data tables!
Pod here: letmesumup.net/i-see-tables-…
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The underlying paper is the “Statistical Review of World Energy 2026” by the Energy Institute energyinst.org/statistical-r…
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OUT NOW: methane! Frankie’s apotheosis arrives as LMSU dives into a Climate Change Authority consultation on fossil CH4 leaks. How big a deal are they, what can be done, how should we prioritise them versus CO2 or nonfossil CH4? We discuss!
Episode: letmesumup.net/when-is-20-mo…
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Here’s the CCA consultation paper, “Fossil methane: a near-term abatement opportunity” climatechangeauthority.gov.a…
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OUT NOW: there’s a design out for the national gas reservation policy. What’s in it? Will it work, and how? What’s missing? the only possible way to find out is via LMSU, here: letmesumup.net/dont-cry-for-…
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Or, I guess, you could read the consultation paper here: consult.dcceew.gov.au/domest…
Episode also features:
Fuel Crisis Corner: is it over now? Not quite!
Autobahn adventures
Hot Mike* Incidents
* Liebreich, that is
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OUT NOW: some businesses are for climate policy, some are agin’ it. A 2025 study examines how time horizons, rather than CO2 intensity, explain this. We wonder at their method!
LMSU episode here: letmesumup.net/trust-no-one-…
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Underlying paper is “Fighting the Future: Short-Term Investors and Business Opposition to Climate Policy” by Jared J Finnegan and Jonas Meckling
preprints.apsanet.org/engage…
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OUT NOW: world oil supply is down 20% for who knows how long. How does demand flex down in the near term? What makes longer term sense? The IEA was born to solve this - and LMSU was born to summarise!
Pod here: letmesumup.net/oils-well-tha…
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IEA advice, “Sheltering From Oil Shocks”, here: iea.org/reports/sheltering-f…
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OUT NOW: what happens to fossil energy systems when usage starts to decline? A new paper argues models of smooth contraction miss physical, financial and managerial constraints that make the ride bumpy indeed. LMSU summarises here: letmesumup.net/the-general-t…
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Here’s the paper, “Fossil energy minimum viable scale” by Joshua Lappen and Emily Grubert emilygrubert.org/wp-content/…
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Episode also features:
•the energy and climate implications of the Iran war
•a relevant appointment
•listener feedback, received via voicemail at podpage.com/let-me-sum-up/vo…
•an appeal for papers (we’ve got plenty, but we want more! Send ‘em in to letmesumup.net/contact/
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