🎶 On The Third Climate Christmas, CCA Rec’d To Me / Power Builds PDQ Please 🎶

Let Me Sum Up

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It’s a cornucopia of climate content as your intrepid hosts barely know where to start feasting as the festive season descends upon the pod. Conscious climate consumers that we are, we can’t help but indulge in a little pre-xmas pud of (yet another) NEM review. There are terms of reference, and wouldn’t you know, we have thoughts about them. The TL;DR of *this* NEM review is that there are a bunch of good eggs, led by Tim Nelson, in search of the successor to the Capacity Investment Scheme. And once again, heavy sighs from governance wonks and demand side proponents abound as these do not seem to be a focus. 🙄 If only someone had done some thinking about reform of our energy system governance to enable more demand side action…

…Aaaand...

...here’s one the Australian Council of Social Service, Australian Industry Group, Energy Efficiency Council and the Property Council prepared earlier! Fresh out of the oven, their report, Demanding Better, has a few ideas...

...aaand mischief managed.

Our main paper

On The Third Climate Christmas, the Climate Change Authority gave to us: their 2024 Annual Progress Report! And is Australia on the CCA’s naughty or nice list? There’s no space for such boring binaries on this podcast of note, Frankie will have you know. Australia is somewhere near the middle of the bus we reckon*. Three chunky sections and ten substantial recommendations later and you’d think your intrepid hosts would have their fill of Climatemas Content for now, but alas, all Luke wants for Christmas is a 2035 target 🥲

One more things

Tennant’s One More Thing is: the impact of gas prices on bricks! Just how badly is housing affordability worsened thanks to rising gas prices’ impact on a double brick house? Spoiler alert. Not much. And why was Tennant asked about this anyway?

Frankie’s One More Thing is: the just launched Greater Sydney Heat Smart City Plan! This plan has its origins in a long running collab between the Western Sydney Region of Councils and Resilient Sydney, with actions and a coordinated program of work to manage city wide heat risk reduction.

Luke’s One More Thing is: a callout to all Summerupperers to vote for the climate movie your intrepid hosts should watch and sum up for our 2024 Holiday Special! Cast your vote here to determine our fate! And please, no Soylent Green devotees need respond**.

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* Please write in if you know what this means – Ed.

** Tennant disagrees! Soylent stalwarts unite! – T