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.
OUT NOW: what happened at COP30, what is the deal with the 🇦🇺/🇹🇷 split COP31 Presidency, and what are the issues to push forward this coming year? LMSU cuts out the middleman and goes straight to circus horseman, COP maven-in-chief and Minister Chris Bowen! www.letmesumup.net/its-9058-mil...
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
OUT NOW: what happened at COP30, what is the deal with the 🇦🇺/🇹🇷 split COP31 Presidency, and what are the issues to push forward this coming year? LMSU cuts out the middleman and goes straight to circus horseman, COP maven-in-chief and Minister Chris Bowen! www.letmesumup.net/its-9058-mil...
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.
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
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...
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...
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...
OUT NOW: Cars are electrifying. But how do we decarbonise planes, trains, ships, tiptrucks? Many say “Low Carbon Liquid Fuels”; a new Deloitte paper for CEFC explores what this industry could look like in 🇦🇺 - and policy to drive it. Let Me Sum Up is on the case! www.letmesumup.net/hey-big-spen...
July 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
OUT NOW: Cars are electrifying. But how do we decarbonise planes, trains, ships, tiptrucks? Many say “Low Carbon Liquid Fuels”; a new Deloitte paper for CEFC explores what this industry could look like in 🇦🇺 - and policy to drive it. Let Me Sum Up is on the case! www.letmesumup.net/hey-big-spen...
OUT NOW: what in the heck is a Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, and what is In (or Not In) Australia’s first one, and what should we do (or not do) with that? Let Me Sum Up is on the case!
Podcast here: www.letmesumup.net/frankie-my-d...
Podcast here: www.letmesumup.net/frankie-my-d...
July 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
OUT NOW: what in the heck is a Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, and what is In (or Not In) Australia’s first one, and what should we do (or not do) with that? Let Me Sum Up is on the case!
Podcast here: www.letmesumup.net/frankie-my-d...
Podcast here: www.letmesumup.net/frankie-my-d...
Maybe comb NGER - corporate-level Scope 1 and Scope 2 is there but pulling out the health ones (bar searching “health”) will be tedious
July 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Maybe comb NGER - corporate-level Scope 1 and Scope 2 is there but pulling out the health ones (bar searching “health”) will be tedious
Reactions to the “what if more CBAM?” proposal were about what you’d expect
July 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reactions to the “what if more CBAM?” proposal were about what you’d expect
Here’s the underlying paper: climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/u...
Trigger warning: there’s a lot of argument for the value of carbon pricing as a policy tool. If you are still curled up in PTSD over 2007-14 Australian pricing sagas, listen with care! (but it’s hard to get away from pricing)
Trigger warning: there’s a lot of argument for the value of carbon pricing as a policy tool. If you are still curled up in PTSD over 2007-14 Australian pricing sagas, listen with care! (but it’s hard to get away from pricing)
July 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Here’s the underlying paper: climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/u...
Trigger warning: there’s a lot of argument for the value of carbon pricing as a policy tool. If you are still curled up in PTSD over 2007-14 Australian pricing sagas, listen with care! (but it’s hard to get away from pricing)
Trigger warning: there’s a lot of argument for the value of carbon pricing as a policy tool. If you are still curled up in PTSD over 2007-14 Australian pricing sagas, listen with care! (but it’s hard to get away from pricing)