Episode also features: - nuclear power costings a go go - UK coal milestones - Sydney summits - Tennessee tangents - An LMSU contest - A SPECIAL GUEST

Here’s the strategy itself: www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Also featuring: - CCA Sector Pathways advice - a trivial invite - a happy event - juvenile humour - cosmic horror - and, as always, more!

Underlying report: www.climateworkscentre.org/wp-content/u...

Drive far enough and you’ll zip through the other 55 mainline episodes, restoring silence (until next ep, of course)

Shoutout to Emil Dimanchev whose excellent critique we reference! I was sad to see that some prominent people are still misrepresenting the paper after Emil’s devastating thread. But if a thread doesn’t work, clearly a podcast episode will end Wrongness On The Internet! 👍

Also featuring ESOO2024 (is everything in the NEM great now?) and an increasingly outrageous series of pledges for new subscriber bonus content! Here’s the main paper by Stechemesser et al: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades

Meeting the Paris Agreement’s climate targets necessitates better knowledge about which climate policies work in reducing emissions at the necessary scale. We provide a global, systematic ex post eval...

Underlying paper is here: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... by Joana Setzer and Catherine Higham Episode also features: - 🇨🇳 emissions peak? (maybe!) - fossil tax feedback - a furry fourth cohost - AND MORE

Essay here! www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2024/0... Ep54 also features UK election climate policy implications, social license feedback, HumeLink approval, and the JMac-to-JWils handoff

Overall I’m delighted to see the PC grappling more deeply with border adjustment. They haven’t yet reached the place of acceptance I said was possible last year, but the emotional journey is on!