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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 2d

This episode also features:

The latest 2035 targets from other nations, and where they suggest we’re headed;

Controversial listener feedback on strengthening the APS;

A chance to see us all at the IGCC Conference!

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the report and overview: www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

National Climate Risk Assessment

Learn about Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.

www.acs.gov.au

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 2d

OUT NOW: Australia’s first national climate risk assessment got a trifle overshadowed by the 2035 target. It deserves a second look! But it’s 284 pages of yikes. LMSU has read it so you can skip to the bits you need most.

Pod: www.letmesumup.net/the-ghost-of...

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 16d

Also featuring:

Target takes, rounded up! (but will the targets be rounded up?)

A nice “Well, Actually”!

Fantastical accessories AND phantasmagorical apparel to be deployed by me at CHAOS TRIVIA (tickets almost gone!) www.letmesumup.net/blog/chaos-t...

CHAOS TRIVIA 2025

Brought to you by the Currently Speaking newsletter and the Let Me Sum Up podcast We’ve had a heap of fun fielding an LMSU team at the last couple of trivia …

www.letmesumup.net

Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 16d

Modelling and technical appendices here: treasury.gov.au/publication/...

Australia’s Net Zero Transformation: Treasury Modelling and Analysis | Treasury.gov.au

Australia’s net zero transformation: Treasury modelling and analysis examines the impact of the net zero transformation on Australia and provides insights into the economic opportunities from differen...

treasury.gov.au

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 16d

OUT NOW: A new round of Treasury modelling informed Australia’s recent net zero strategy. What was in it? What do Tim, Mira, Emm and Alex have to do with it? And what happens to 🇦🇺 fossil exports? LMSU is on it!
Pod here: www.letmesumup.net/trends-the-o...

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 23d

And don’t forget - if you’ll be around Melbourne on 29 October for All-Energy, why not cap the day with energy-themed CHAOS TRIVIA, presented by an unprecedented super team of Currently Speaking, LMSU AND THE NEMchat Singers? Tix rapidly dwindling! events.humanitix.com/currently-sp...

Currently Speaking & Let Me Sum Up present: Chaos Trivia

An energy-based trivia evening unlike anything else.

events.humanitix.com

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 23d

More to come - COP30 and intervening events permitting, we hope to give a deeper treatment to the Treasury modelling (next main episode!) and each of the Sector Plans (bonus content for Super SummerUpperers!)

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 23d

Many, many documents here: www.dcceew.gov.au/about/news/s...

www.dcceew.gov.au

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 23d

OUT NOW: a super rapid, yet extended, Let Me Sum Up reaction to Australia’s 2035 emissions target and the päperdämmerung of accompanying advice, modelling, strategies and plans. Are we at home on the range from 62-70%? Saddle up and find out!
Podcast here: www.letmesumup.net/the-hi-lo-co...

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 23d

Pathway beyond 2035 also deserves lots of thought (and indeed beyond net zero). Budget thinking also needed! I guess I was reacting to a very firm “this rate of change is indistinguishable from abandoning net zero” view, which I think is hard to agree with, but there is a wider universe of views

Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 23d

Inspired by a rather more dour first take by @johnquiggin.bsky.social

Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 23d

Significantly faster rate of change needed over 31-35 than recent & 25-30 rates. If achieved, there's then room either for a slowdown from 2036 (as we deal with the hardest emissions) or to bring forward the net zero point.

Much easier to chart than to do! But quite big, at both ambition ends.

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · 23d

Lots more time + headspace needed to go through the Australian 2035 climate target decision and sector plans etc. But here's a quick look at the rates of change involved (with historic data to 2024, 2024 projections 2025-2030, new targets 2031-2035, & straight line to 0 in 2050. New targets in blue

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Kylie Turner @kyliejturner.bsky.social · 25d

I often get asked about the outsized influence of the big gas companies in WA. In the context of the approval just last week of the North West Shelf gas project extension, there is not a better time to be examining this relationship.

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Sep 11

Episode also features:

(probably) LMSU’s last 2035 target discussion before the actual decision is announced!

A Chaos Trivia spectacular in collab with Currently Speaking & the NEMchat Singers! 29/10, Melbourne! Register: www.letmesumup.net/blog/chaos-t...

A startling sartorial revelation by me!

CHAOS TRIVIA 2025

Brought to you by the Currently Speaking newsletter and the Let Me Sum Up podcast We’ve had a heap of fun fielding an LMSU team at the last couple of trivia …

www.letmesumup.net

Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Sep 11

You know where to get a Quarterly Essay, but anyway: www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2025/0...

Woodside vs the Planet: How a Company Captured a Country; Quarterly Essay 99 | Quarterly Essay

Why is Australia doubling down on fossil fuels?

www.quarterlyessay.com.au

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Sep 11

OUT NOW: this year’s North West Shelf EPBC extension decision was one chapter in a saga running from the 1960s to, maybe, “2050 And Beyond”. Marian Wilkinson’s new Quarterly Essay reports it; LMSU sums up!
Here’s the pod: www.letmesumup.net/once-you-sta...

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Sep 6

I read the top quote, was dumbfounded, read on and saw the @nytimes.com journo was right there with me
Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

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David Kleimann @davidkleimann.bsky.social · Aug 31

CBAM Corner: The 🇪🇺 Commission has opened civil society consultations for the 'Big Three' implementing acts on

👉 the methodology for the determination of embedded emissions;
👉 free allocation adjustment via CBAM certificates;
👉crediting of carbon prices paid in third countries.

shorturl.at/tW4TW

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Aug 30

And increasingly worse for met coal exporters too!
A bit of an impetus for Australia to look for alternative opportunities, or hedges. The future China market for green iron won’t be as physically big in their consumption of iron ore + met coal has been, but can be way more valuable for us

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Aug 28

Also featured this ep:

Reform retrospective! What happened at the big roundtable, especially in the Construction Code?

Sensible Net Zero directions from a familiar quarter!

Nelson Review response transparency response response!

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Aug 28

Here’s the paper, “In the Vortex of Great Power Competition: Climate, Trade and Geostrategic Rivalry in U.S.-China-E.U Relations” by Michael A. Mehling:
www.belfercenter.org/sites/defaul...

www.belfercenter.org

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Aug 28

OUT NOW: Somehow, geopolitics returned. How does climate action play out, or not, as the US, EU and China jostle and compete? This ep the LMSU pod reads a recent Michael Mehling paper setting out 3 illustrative scenarios. It’s good! Ep: www.letmesumup.net/climate-hege...

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Aug 28

This story sits at the overlap of multiple pathologies:
- tariff chaos
- anticlimate ideology
- demolition of nascent China balancing coalition
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry

www.nytimes.com

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