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Up this week is Simon Holmes à Court, the Australian investor and philanthropist with a passion for using data to change the world. In 2022, the federal elections in Australia delivered an upset, as around a third of the electorate turned their back on the established parties and voted in seven new independent MPs taking the total to 10. Simon was responsible for a crowdfunding initiative - Climate 200 - that supported 23 candidates in all, pledging to act on climate, political integrity and gender discrimination. He remains very involved in the challenge of pivoting Australia from a fossil fuel based economy to a clean energy superpower. Simon is an energy analyst, clean-tech investor, climate philanthropist, and director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network. He was co-founder of the Australian Wind Alliance and inaugural chair of the Melbourne Energy Institute's Advisory Board. He is a respected commentator on the economic, political and engineering aspects of Australia's energy transition.  Links: Simon's 2022 book The Big Teal: https://publishing.monash.edu/product/the-big-teal/ Simon's ABC interview on the success of Climate 200 in the wake of the 2022 elections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Mhz6b7cg4 Simon's 2021 talk - Independents and Climate - The Hope to End the Lost Decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_-1eLbLL8 Simon's 2018 op-ed which triggered his expulsion from Kooyong 200: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/09/why-liddell-is-likely-to-close-in-2022-and-why-you-shouldnt-careThe Superpower Institute, working for Australian leadership in the transition: https://www.superpowerinstitute.com.au/

Assistant Professor David Keith (pictured at the Melbourne Energy Institute's Symposium23 on Friday, December 8, mounted a convincing argument about why public transport will never replace, totally, the privately owned motor car. His argument overlooked, I would argue, the fact that the modern mind had been colonized by the individualism promoted and encouraged by capitalistic and neoliberal thinking. "$700m pledged to loss and damage fund at Cop28 covers less than 0.2% needed"; "Storms, wind bring ‘catastrophic' fire danger to SE Australia"; "Forests will offer mammals refuge as climate warms"; "Alok Sharma says COP28 agreement on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘vital"; "COP28 creates fund for vulnerable countries for loss and damage from climate change—but will it reach vulnerable people?"; "Porsche plans to use CO₂-reduced steel in its sports cars from 2026"; "‘Devil will be in the detail': Australia's $80b merger talks spark questions"; "How Kirsha Kaechele brought the logging industry's most powerful players together"; "Sweltering through this heatwave? Here's how to stay cool"; "COP28 oil company to spend $1 bn a month on fossil fuels this decade despite ‘green' claims"; "Azerbaijan weaponises conservation law in conflict with Armenia"; "Next year's climate summit still lacks a host"; "Australia's set to sizzle this weekend. Here's how hot it will be, and how to avoid heat stroke"; "Fraught battle over fossil fuels at centre of Cop28 as we enter second week"; "Helping the Pacific financially is a great start – but Australia must act on the root cause of the climate crisis"; "COP28: Turning the tap off slowly – why Australia's decision to end overseas fossil fuel finance matters"; "Clash Over ‘Fossil Fuels' Pits U.A.E. Against Public Health Experts"; "Drastic Emissions Cuts, Transition to Renewable Energy Crucial as ‘Humanity's Fate Hangs in the Balance', Secretary-General Tells World Climate Action Summit"; "Al Gore Wants to Weaken Petrostates' Power Over Global Climate Decisions"; "We have one planet and it's our collective responsibility to preserve it by reducing our impact and transitioning to a nature positive future."; "A Country Breakfast - rural news"; "The battle to phase out fossil fuels has little or no precedent — but isn't lost"; "Coral Scientist Predicts Massive Bleaching Events in 2024"; "2023 Will Be Hottest Year on Record, EU Climate Service Says"; "Paris Plans an Urban Forest for a Busy Roundabout"; "Adjusting Frozen Food Temperature Could Reduce Carbon Emissions While Improving Food Security, Researchers Say"; "A Guide to Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28"; "Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry's Media Enablers"; "COP28: with a ‘loss and damage' fund in place, protecting climate refugees is more urgent than ever"; "Politics with Michelle Grattan: Chris Bowen's struggle to promote consensus on climate action at COP28"; "Fossil CO₂ emissions hit record high yet again in 2023"; "Reporting from COP28: The People at the Heart of It All"; "How Amy Westervelt Sees Through the Smokescreen of COP28"; "Inside the Campaign That Put an Oil Boss in Charge of a Climate Summit"; "Rod Oram: Words, crowds and Kiwis at global climate summit"; "An Inevitable Showdown With the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Brewing at COP28"; "Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues"; "Kerry indicates US backs ‘largely' phasing out fossil fuels"; "‘No climate justice without peace': Gaza becomes flashpoint for climate activists"; "Activists say their voices are stifled by increasing rules and restrictions at COP28 climate talks"; "UAE 'repressive environment' complicating COP28 activism: Amnesty"; "Exclusive: Moldova volunteers to run COP29 climate summit, Serbia also mulls bid"; "November is the sixth straight month to set a heat record, scientists say"; "As Australia braces for a heatwave, 2023 is officially the hottest year on record". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Australia’s commitment to the Paris Agreement means cutting carbon emissions to near zero over the next 30 years. Doing this at reasonable cost while maintaining reliability will require reforms and investment unprecedented in scale and complexity. Yet, recent history raises concerns that we need new foundations to underpin the policy reform agenda. This is an event recording of a public forum in the Energy Future series, hosted by Melbourne Energy Institute and Grattan Institute. Speakers Chloe Munro, Professorial Fellow, Monash University Richard Bolt, Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Tony Wood, Energy Program Director, Grattan Institute Moderator Madeleine Morris, Reporter, 7.30 at Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Event Podcast: At this Energy Futures Seminar, ESB Chair, Kerry Schott, Grattan Institute’s Tony Wood and Tim Nelson from AGL as they explained, discussed and debated these issues. The Forum was moderated by Jennifer Hewett from the Australian Financial Review and was hosted by the Melbourne Energy Institute, Grattan Institute and the State Library of New South Wales.

Event podcast: Electricity network costs continue to be an area of significant focus for consumers, government, regulators and media, as well as network businesses themselves. In some cases, claims have been made that network prices are paying for investments the value of which has since been questioned. Experts from Grattan Institute, Powerlink and the Melbourne Energy Institute debated and explored these challenges in this first of our Energy Future Series for 2018.

Beyond Zero speaks to Simon Holmes à Court, senior advisor to the Energy Transition Hub at Melbourne University and sits on the advisory board of the Melbourne Energy Institute. He was founding chair of Hepburn Wind, Australia’s first community owned wind farm. He talks about our renewable energy outlook. 

Many analyst believe the only way for India to meet rising energy demands will be to build dozens of new coal-fired power stations - much like China during its rapid economic development in recent decades. But is India ready to carve out a new path forward? Guest: Professor Rangan Banerjee Host: Dr Jonathan Balls Producer: Kog Ravindran Audio Engineer: Gavin Nebauer This podcast is brought to you in association with the Melbourne Energy Institute, the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales.

Dimitri Lafleur talks about a new report by the Melbourne Energy Institute which found that unmeasured methane leakage and fugitive emissions from unconventional gasfields could cause Australia to fail its Paris climate commitments.

Dylan McConnell of the Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne discusses South Australia’s recent state-wide blackout following once in 50-year storms. 

Tim Forcey, Energy Advisor, Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne talks about how the export boom is shaking up Australia’s gas market. He also explains "economic fuel switching" . 

Beyond Zero invited Richard Keech to talk with Tim Forcey from the Melbourne Energy Institute to discuss gas demand in Eastern Australia including Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, The ACT, Queensland and New South Wales.