Climate News: From COP30 in Brasil with California's Governor Gavin Newsom, to the self-destructive behaviour of Australia's conservative political parties

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";

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"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".