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All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends! That’s right, we’re calling in even nerdier reinforcements. This week, we’ll be joined by Ag sector knower Steve Hatfield-Dodds to unpack the Agriculture and Land Sector Plan. And if somehow that isn’t temptation enough for you crazy climate cats, we can reveal that episode two of our dungeons and dragons odyssey is incoming in time for the Christmas listening of Super Summerupperers... so hop to it!

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Main topic(s)

While we have been occupied with Conferences of Parties, developments in Australian energy and climate policy have been coming thick and fast. So what is a summing up podcast with one substantive episode left before the end of the year to do? Why, a demolition derby of All The Things, of course! 

Buckle up, and tune in for:

• Klimate Krampus, AKA the Coalition’s abandonment of a net zero by 2050 target (to really get the vibe of the thing, we encourage a close read of the Liberal and National positions, such as they are )
• Climate Christmas, specifically the Albanese Government’s 2025 Climate Statement, the Climate Change Authority’s 2025 Annual Progress Report and DCCEEW’s 2025 Emissions Projections.
• Energy Eisteddfod, featuring
  • AEMO’s Draft 2026 Integrated System Plan
  • CSIRO’s Draft 2025-26 GenCost Report
  • AEMO’s 2025 Transition Plan for System Security
  • Tim Nelson and friends' NEM Review final report
  • Ministers various’ ECMC Communique
  • Gas Market Review rumblings and reservation speculation
  • Home Battery Program recharged
  • Electric Car Discount reviewed
• And for dessert, Environment Efflorescence...
  • EPBC reforms passed!

One more things

Frankie’s One More Thing is – jumping on a favourite hobby horse, the imperative to tackle methane emissions, noting