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In September 2018, Darebin Council is convening a Climate Emergency Conference which will bring together people and organisations with shared concerns for our environment to demonstrate leadership in climate emergency action.

The aim of this conference is to identify strategic action and opportunities for collaboration in addressing the climate emergency. Darebin City Council writes:

“The climate emergency conference will also create opportunities to build collaborations for advocacy and influence across government, industries and organisations that have the greatest power to take urgent and appropriate action to respond to the climate emergency.

The conference will include a series of plenary addresses focusing on scientific understandings, social dynamics, learnings from disaster management and corporate responsibility, and will build a detailed and complex picture of the challenges we face.

Through the themes of communication and engagement and taking action, the conference will also explore issues of how we communicate and identify innovative ways to engage and empower people to take meaningful and long-lasting action in response to the climate emergency.

Your participation will significantly contribute to the development of a collective understanding of climate emergency, and the range and scope of advocacy and practical responses required to restore a safe climate. It is only through a collaborative, partnership approach that we can collectively scale up our action and advocacy to the degree required to avoid catastrophic climate change is required.”

A full program of events will be available soon on Council’s website.

Tuesday 11 September 2018 at 8:30am to Wednesday 12 September at 5:00pm
Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street, Northcote, VIC 3070, Australia

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[fusion_text]Darebin City Council has produced a 76-page draft Climate Emergency Plan. There aren’t many municipalities, if any, around the world which have done that – so this is a step to take special notice of.

Now the councillors would like to know whether the residents of Darebin think they are on the right track, so the draft plan has been put out on the council’s website for public commenting and submissions, and forum meetings about the plan are going to be held in Darebin on 8 June, 13 June and 20 June 2017.

» See more on www.yoursaydarebin.com.au/climateaction

» Download the Summary (PDF, 8 pages, 2.5MB) and/or the Draft plan (PDF, 76 pages, 5.4MB)

» Listen to an interview with Darebin’s mayor and information about what other councils have been doing on:
www.climateemergencydeclaration.org/mav2017

Survey: eight out of ten Australians ready to act on climate emergency

A survey done by the Global Challenges Forum has found that eight out of ten Australians (81% of the 1,000 Australian participants in the poll) agree with the proposition:

“Do you think we should try to prevent climate catastrophes, which might not occur for several decades or centuries, even if it requires making considerable changes that impact on our current living standards?”

The figure across the 8,000 people polled in eight countries – Australia, China, India, Brazil, South Africa, UK, Germany and USA – was 88%. Nine out of ten.

“The dissonance between what Australian’s understand and what government is doing is remarkable. Australia is failing in its responsibility to safeguard its people and protect their way of life. It is also failing as a world citizen, by downplaying the profound global impacts of climate change and shirking its responsibility to act.”
David Spratt

» Climate Code Red – 29 May 2017:
Three-quarters of Australians say climate warming “a catastrophic risk”, even as government turns a blind eye

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