Victorian Climate Action Network

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  • Climate emergency campaigning workshop 1

    Climate emergency campaigning workshop 1

    Presentations at the Victorian Climate Action Network forum – a ‘climate emergency campaigning workshop’ – held on 11 September 2016 in Melbourne.

    David Spratt: Why is emergency-scale action necessary?


    “We need to understand the gravity of the climate emergency and get to the bottom of what science actually demands.”
    David Spratt


    » More information about David Spratt’s presentation, including all slides


    Jane Morton: Moving into emergency mode

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u33rN_WQfPs


    Philip Sutton: What can we learn from history about the declaration of an emergency

    » More information about what a Climate Emergency Act could look like


    Margaret Hender: Emergency campaigning – what have we learnt so far?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ZiSCMB8nw

    What have we learnt so far from the Climate Emergency Declaration and Mobilisation campaign in Australia and what is needed to achieve our goal?

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    » Margaret Hender’s presentation in writing, including all slides



    Simon Sheikh: Climate emergency strategic planning

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEvTsJk_Xpo

    Simon Sheikh, CEO Future Super and former GetUp leader, presents his ideas as to how to create momentum on the critical path to the declaration of a climate emergency.

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    Constituency-based campaigning – illustration by Simon Sheikh


    Mark Wakeham: Campaigning on the climate emergency – some thoughts

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    Mark Wakeham is the CEO for Environment Victoria, one of Australia’s leading environment non-government organisations. He talks about how the message that there isn’t a carbon budget left in his view is best communicated by climate action campaigners – drawing a parallel to the anti-nuclear movements’ refraining from using the mushroom-cloud in their campaigning because it they thought it would put people off. Should we or shouldn’t we be showing the mushroom-cloud of the ‘climate mind bomb’?

    Download audio mp3 file (Duration: 11 minutes)

    Ezra Silk: An update on The Climate Mobilization campaign in the United States

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65IT9koutAc

    Ezra Silk from Climate Mobilization talks about the American experience with climate emergency campaigning

    » More information on www.theclimatemobilization.org

    See also:

    » Margaret Klein Salamon – 13 May 2016:
    How to go into emergency mode



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    Other questions discussed at the workshop

    What is climate emergency campaigning?
    · Is it reinforcing and building accurate description of the climate science within all climate campaigns?
    · Is it campaigning for the declaration of a climate emergency?
    · Is it campaigning for a massive emergency-speed mobilisation?
    · Is it all of the above?
    · Is it something else? Something additional to the above?

    Does your group do climate emergency campaigning? Which type? If not why not? If so how is it going? Could you do more or it?

    » More information about the Victorian Climate Action Network (VCAN) on www.vcan.net.au


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    » Sign the Climate Emergency Declaration petition


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  • Climate Change Act and Climate Charter Briefing

    Environmental Justice Australia has organised a briefing. Come along for an expert legal briefing on the review of the Victorian Climate Change Act and Victorian People’s Climate Charter.

    The Victorian Government is going to propose a new Climate Change Act in the next couple of months. We currently have a unique window of opportunity to act to ensure that Victoria implements a Climate Change Act that achieves real emissions reductions and is well-equipped to deal with future challenges posed by Climate Change.

    A key part of the Act needs to be the Victorian People’s Climate Charter. Inspired by the example of Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, an independent panel of legal and policy experts has recommended including a Climate Charter in the Victorian Climate Change Act.

    The Climate Charter would guide all government planning, policy and decision making in responding to climate change, whether reducing our emissions and transitioning to clean energy sources, or dealing with the impacts of climate change that are already being felt by the community.

    You’ll learn:

    • What a Climate Charter is and how it would operate in practice
    • Why the Climate Charter gives us a powerful new tool for addressing federal government inaction on the climate change
    • What other key pillars are needed to make sure Victoria has an effective Climate Change Act that drives meaningful emissions reduction.
    • The crucial next steps we need to take to ensure that an ambitious, nation leading Climate Change Act is adopted by the Victorian government

    You’ll also have the opportunity to have your questions answered by experienced environmental lawyers Felicity Millner and Brendan Sydes.