California Governor Gavin Newsom (picture) steals the spotlight at COP30 in Brasil - "Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip";

"This widely used chart makes the clean energy switch seem much harder than it actually is";

"Indigenous People, Long Sidelined at Climate Talks, Take the Stage in Brazil";

"‘I didn’t agree to that’: The proposal that triggered uproar in the Coalition party room";

"A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics";

"Earth Nowhere Near Where It Needs to Be to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change";

"COP30 Forges Ahead as World’s Biggest Emitter, the United States, Stays Absent";

"How Monash Uni took a $43m moral stand and gave Building 94 its name back";

"The comforting but dangerous fantasy of ‘normal’ climatic and political aberrations".

Liberal Party leader, Sussan Ley (pictured), is at the centre of discussions that mean little to what it is that Australians need to hear about addressing climate change.

"These numbers say net zero is doomed – and so is Sussan Ley";

"Where the sky keeps bursting";

"Greenwashing in the Evergreen State";

"Ley’s job on the line as Liberals reject net zero";

"Birrell advocates for coal, gas, and eventually nuclear";

"The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity";

"The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target".

Marian Wilkinson has sliced through the fossil fuel companies, particularly Woodside, and our politicians, in her latest Quarterly Essay," Woodside vs The Planet: how a company captured a country".

The Australian investigative journalist is interviewed here by the co-convenor from Climate 200, Kate Hook.

It's long — more than an hour — but well worth your time.