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Climate Conversations

Climate Conversations

By: Robert McLean
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A continuous conversation about climate change - news, views and interviews.Robert McLean Philosophy Social Sciences
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  • COP30, Belem, Brasil - Austrailia surrenders to Turkey, but according to Climate and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, it's a win!
    Nov 20 2025

    Australia's Climate and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen (pictured), is attending climate talks in Belem, Brazil, at COP30. However, the talks have gone a little awry for Australia, as it has ceded COP31 to Turkey.

    "Australia can win big international bids when it wants. This was an omnishambles";

    "Anger, questions over Albanese’s call to concede COP to Turkey";

    "‘Avoidable failures’: Government defies watchdog on compensation for flood victims";

    "The Accidental Activist, Madeleine Serle";

    "Australia beaten by the Turks. Don’t mention the war";

    "Victoria’s EV battle: Should non-drivers pay for roadside chargers?";

    "World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds".

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    33 mins
  • Climate News: From COP30 in Brasil with California's Governor Gavin Newsom, to the self-destructive behaviour of Australia's conservative political parties
    Nov 17 2025

    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".

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    55 mins
  • Climate News: Sussan Ley chances her arm, and her Liberal Party leadership on net zero - the conversation is becoming increasingly irrelevant to all Australians
    Nov 13 2025

    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".

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    38 mins
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