Tennant Reed
@tennantreed.bsky.social
Melbourne-based climate and energy wonk with Australian Industry Group. CBAM obsessive. Cohost of the Let Me Sum Up podcast.
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OUT NOW: what happened in the closing stages of #COP30? What’s the vibe of the innovative, complex 🇹🇷🇦🇺 shared COP31? And just how multidimensionally rude can Russia be to all of Spanish-speaking Latin America? Find out in LMSU’s wrap pod, hot off the editing desk!
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OUT NOW: what happened in the closing stages of #COP30? What’s the vibe of the innovative, complex 🇹🇷🇦🇺 shared COP31? And just how multidimensionally rude can Russia be to all of Spanish-speaking Latin America? Find out in LMSU’s wrap pod, hot off the editing desk!
www.letmesumup.net/no-sweets-st...
www.letmesumup.net/no-sweets-st...
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
OUT NOW: what happened in the closing stages of #COP30? What’s the vibe of the innovative, complex 🇹🇷🇦🇺 shared COP31? And just how multidimensionally rude can Russia be to all of Spanish-speaking Latin America? Find out in LMSU’s wrap pod, hot off the editing desk!
www.letmesumup.net/no-sweets-st...
www.letmesumup.net/no-sweets-st...
Intense drama at COP30 provokes deep thought by President of the COP do Lago
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Intense drama at COP30 provokes deep thought by President of the COP do Lago
#COP30 is into extra time. No new texts yet, a plenary currently set for 10am Saturday Belém time. Doesn’t feel like we’re that close to wrapping up yet!
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#COP30 is into extra time. No new texts yet, a plenary currently set for 10am Saturday Belém time. Doesn’t feel like we’re that close to wrapping up yet!
OUT NOW: a super timely LMSU summarizes what’s happened at the halfway mark of COP30 in Belém, Brazil! It’s all happening here, and in our wild farrago of K-Pop, cranberry juice and Inception references you can decode the whole event.
Episode here:
www.letmesumup.net/k-cop-ndc-hu...
Episode here:
www.letmesumup.net/k-cop-ndc-hu...
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
OUT NOW: a super timely LMSU summarizes what’s happened at the halfway mark of COP30 in Belém, Brazil! It’s all happening here, and in our wild farrago of K-Pop, cranberry juice and Inception references you can decode the whole event.
Episode here:
www.letmesumup.net/k-cop-ndc-hu...
Episode here:
www.letmesumup.net/k-cop-ndc-hu...
For what is, I think, the first time, I have joined the immense coffee queue at the Australian Pavilion at #COP30. I am not a coffee person! But I hear we have tea…
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
For what is, I think, the first time, I have joined the immense coffee queue at the Australian Pavilion at #COP30. I am not a coffee person! But I hear we have tea…
#COP30 food: there is rather nice Amazonian food available at Govinda, upstairs at the Gastronomic Center at the northwest part of the Blue Zone. I had maniçoba, pounded slow-cooked manioc leaf, for R89. Tasty! Steeper than the hotly-sought Sociobio, but much easier to get into yesterday.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
#COP30 food: there is rather nice Amazonian food available at Govinda, upstairs at the Gastronomic Center at the northwest part of the Blue Zone. I had maniçoba, pounded slow-cooked manioc leaf, for R89. Tasty! Steeper than the hotly-sought Sociobio, but much easier to get into yesterday.
Notes of a fesity #COP30 side event on global shipping, post the IMO vote last month!
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COP30 side event: International Maritime Organization - Decarbonising Global Shipping | Tennant Reed
Notes of a #COP30 side event on decarbonising global shipping - with the IMO, a month after *that* meeting. Feisty panel! Twiggy not the only feisty one!
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November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Notes of a fesity #COP30 side event on global shipping, post the IMO vote last month!
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www.linkedin.com/posts/tennan...
Will this tree in the corridor at #COP30 survive conditions inside for long? It’s the sort of nice idea whose rich symbolism starts out lovely and turns grim within 2 weeks!
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Will this tree in the corridor at #COP30 survive conditions inside for long? It’s the sort of nice idea whose rich symbolism starts out lovely and turns grim within 2 weeks!
#COP30 food: the food court near the side event spaces (blue, lower right on the map) is pretty okay on first contact. Veggie rice and a drink for R90 is steep but it was at least tasty. Lots of people even for early lunch, but good aircon and a lot of seats (you will have to ask to share a table)
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#COP30 food: the food court near the side event spaces (blue, lower right on the map) is pretty okay on first contact. Veggie rice and a drink for R90 is steep but it was at least tasty. Lots of people even for early lunch, but good aircon and a lot of seats (you will have to ask to share a table)
OUT NOW: global warming getting too much? Why not block out the sun a bit? What could possibly go wrong?
A new paper explores complications (there are lots), will annoy people with strong priors on geoengineering! LMSU dips our collective toe in the stratosphere: www.letmesumup.net/how-to-slow-...
A new paper explores complications (there are lots), will annoy people with strong priors on geoengineering! LMSU dips our collective toe in the stratosphere: www.letmesumup.net/how-to-slow-...
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
OUT NOW: global warming getting too much? Why not block out the sun a bit? What could possibly go wrong?
A new paper explores complications (there are lots), will annoy people with strong priors on geoengineering! LMSU dips our collective toe in the stratosphere: www.letmesumup.net/how-to-slow-...
A new paper explores complications (there are lots), will annoy people with strong priors on geoengineering! LMSU dips our collective toe in the stratosphere: www.letmesumup.net/how-to-slow-...
OUT NOW: are emissions in the electricity sector sorted, thanks to expected retirements and planned new generation? No, says Grattan’s latest. But they have a solution (and a way to offset its costs). LMSU looks into it! Leprechauns beware!
Podcast: www.letmesumup.net/under-gratta...
Podcast: www.letmesumup.net/under-gratta...
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
OUT NOW: are emissions in the electricity sector sorted, thanks to expected retirements and planned new generation? No, says Grattan’s latest. But they have a solution (and a way to offset its costs). LMSU looks into it! Leprechauns beware!
Podcast: www.letmesumup.net/under-gratta...
Podcast: www.letmesumup.net/under-gratta...
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...
Pod: www.letmesumup.net/the-ghost-of...
October 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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...
Pod: www.letmesumup.net/the-ghost-of...
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...
Pod here: www.letmesumup.net/trends-the-o...
September 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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...
Pod here: www.letmesumup.net/trends-the-o...
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...
Podcast here: www.letmesumup.net/the-hi-lo-co...
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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...
Podcast here: www.letmesumup.net/the-hi-lo-co...
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
September 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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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.
September 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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.
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...
Here’s the pod: www.letmesumup.net/once-you-sta...
September 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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...
Here’s the pod: www.letmesumup.net/once-you-sta...
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...
Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
September 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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...
Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
Reposted by Tennant Reed
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
👉 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
August 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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
👉 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
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...
August 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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...
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...
- 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
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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...
- tariff chaos
- anticlimate ideology
- demolition of nascent China balancing coalition
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
Various daft actions summed up here, perhaps the oddest being the US threat to impose tariffs on nations that vote for the IMO scheme to cut shipping emissions.
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Various daft actions summed up here, perhaps the oddest being the US threat to impose tariffs on nations that vote for the IMO scheme to cut shipping emissions.
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
An absolute hurricane of sovereign risk coming out of multiple tracks of US policy this year - not a great investment environment, whatever the tax code currently says
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
An absolute hurricane of sovereign risk coming out of multiple tracks of US policy this year - not a great investment environment, whatever the tax code currently says
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
OUT NOW: a double-epic LMSU episode covering NOT JUST the Productivity Commission’s timely climate and energy contribution to the looming Reformdämmerung, BUT ALSO the blockbuster draft report of the Nelson Review of the NEM! Phew!
Here’s the pod:
www.letmesumup.net/like-sands-t...
Here’s the pod:
www.letmesumup.net/like-sands-t...
August 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
OUT NOW: a double-epic LMSU episode covering NOT JUST the Productivity Commission’s timely climate and energy contribution to the looming Reformdämmerung, BUT ALSO the blockbuster draft report of the Nelson Review of the NEM! Phew!
Here’s the pod:
www.letmesumup.net/like-sands-t...
Here’s the pod:
www.letmesumup.net/like-sands-t...