Dr David McCoy (pictured) appears on a "Saving the World" webinar, emphasising the importance of good governance when it comes to global health.

In this webinar, "Power, accountability and global health governance", Dr McCoy speaks about the principles of good global health governance, examining current and evolving power dynamics in global health and how accountability deficits need to be plugged to improve the quality and effectiveness of global health governance. In doing so, he highlights the role and accountability of powerful private actors in global health governance.

He describes some of the work being done by the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH).

Ryan Batchelor (pictured) is the member for Melbourne's Southern Metropolitan in Victoria's Legislative Council and is the chair of the Environment and Planning Committee.

Mr Batchelor and his committee spent nearly two years considering and preparing a report of more than 450 pages about the state's "Climate Resilience".

Sadly, the committee's terms of reference for the study didn't allow it to consider mitigation, but rather adaptation in reference to the state's built environment.

Dr David Holmes (pictured) is an upbeat, friendly and co-operative fellow who is the Managing Director and founder of "Climate Communications Australia".

CCA, as it is known, can be found in the Melbourne building of the Royal Society of Victoria in the city's La Trobe Street.

This episode had a less-than-positive start when a pre-arranged phone call to record the interview fell apart because of unusable audio.

We arranged to meet in Melbourne and we quickly ran into trouble again when a busy Dr Holmes had forgotten the keys to his office and so we moved to a nearby coffee shop, which was a little noisy, but okay.

More troubles - my inadequate knowledge of audio resulted in the gain in Dr Holmes' microphone being too low, and my microphone wasn't working at all.

The resultant episode is a workaround, and while far from ideal, it still helps us better understand something about the important, and critical work of Climate Communications Australia

The Chair of the "Climate Resilience" report from the Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee, Ryan Batchelor (pictured), said: "The impact of a changing climate on Victoria’s built environment is clear. Hotter summers leading to longer bushfire seasons, more intense rainfall events create new flooding patterns, coastal erosion continues apace, and we are experiencing more frequent high-intensity wind and storms."

"56 million years ago, Earth underwent rapid global warming. Here’s what it did to pollinators";

"Cricket under threat as Hit for Six climate change report highlights risks of extreme weather events";

"Albanese is crying poor, but we’re losing billions a year from untaxed gas";

"They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped.";

"Stronger Target, Safer Future Webinar";

"Why Complex Societies Collapse | Joseph Tainter";

"Sweltering Heat Wave Hits Southern Europe";

"If You Fly Economy, You’re Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private";

"Fires burn throughout Europe";

"How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America";

"China’s EVs are dirt cheap. Its policymakers are concerned".

Dubbo lawyer, Claire Booth (pictured), told the July 23 Bendigo "National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo" that farmers and their counterparts were living through a time of exponential change

Ms Booth was speaking at a session entitled "Large-scale energy transition - tax law, insurance, agrivoltaics and hosting transmission".

With her on the panel were Billy Greenham from "Coagency", Andrew Bomm from "Progressive Agriculture", Yvette Lloyd from "EnergyCo" and a cropping farmer who was hosting transmission lines and wind turbines, Simon Tickner.

The Energy Program Director from the Melbourne-based Grattan Institute, Tony Wood (pictured), was the keynote speaker at the Wednesday, July 23, National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo.

The conference, the best-attended yet of the several already staged, was held in Bendigo's Capital Theatre.

Nearly 400 people enjoyed the theatre's facilities and, particularly, the varied and powerful program laid out by event organiser, Karin Stark.

Earlier conferences had been held in Queensland and New South Wales, but this was the first in Victoria, although one was recently staged in Albury, close to the Victorian border.