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In Australia in 2018, the Victorian Minister for Energy Lily D’Ambrosio, Labor, signed on to the climate emergency declaration mobilisation movement. Why would this be worth mentioning four years later? It could become significant because it is election time again in Victoria – Australia’s second largest state, where more than a quarter of all Australians Read more about Victorian energy minister signs climate emergency declaration[…]

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  Philip Sutton (1951-2022)   The world has lost a groundbreaking climate thinker   Luke Taylor, director of the National Sustainable Living Festival, wrote: “It is with an extremely heavy heart that we send this message to notify the SLF community that veteran sustainability and climate activist, Philip Sutton passed away earlier this week from Read more about Philip Sutton: In loving memory[…]

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On 31 May 2022, a motion declaring Australia is facing a climate emergency passed both the Lower and Upper House of the South Australian Parliament. The motion also recognised that climate change is already costing lives and destroying vital ecosystems around the world. South Australian Climate Minister Susan Close introduced the climate emergency declaration, saying: Read more about First Australian state parliament declares a climate emergency[…]

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On 23 March 2022, Cate Faehrmann from the Greens put forward a motion that the New South Wales state government declare a climate emergency. The motion was voted down by 28 votes against (Labor, Liberals, Nationals) and only 4 votes for the motion. https://twitter.com/greencate/status/1506574185518174208 Here is how Cate Faehrmann described it in a live Facebook Read more about Australia: Climate emergency declaration voted down in New South Wales parliament[…]

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Academic research from the RMIT University in Melbourne shows that climate emergency declarations do signify a stronger climate response from local government, and that emerging action plans do reflect many of the attributes needed for robust and viable climate emergency strategies. The 16-page paper, which was published on MDPI – a Swiss publisher of open Read more about Australia: Declarations lead to stronger climate response from local government[…]

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At the Cities Power Partnership Awards ceremony on 17 November 2021, Morning Peninsula Shire took out top honours with the ‘Ambition Award’ for its Climate Emergency Plan, while the winner of the ‘Community Choice Award’ was Borough of Queenscliffe for its community-led climate emergency response plan. The Cities Power Partnership awards recognise councils demonstrating climate Read more about Australia: Climate Emergency Response Plans awarded[…]

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A new Australian podcast documents the role which the Climate Emergency Declaration campaign played in shaping public opinion about the climate crisis in the small country town Castlemaine in Victoria. The 48-minute podcast episode titled ‘Close To Home’ is produced by Rob Law and Kyla Brettle. It is the first episode of their new podcast Read more about Country town’s climate emergency declaration journey documented in podcast[…]