‘Reclaiming the climate emergency locally’ was a one-hour webinar held at the National Sustainable Living Festival, which takes place annually across Australia during the month of February. During the session, the panelists – Adrian Whitehead, Bryony Edwards, Trent McCarthy, Dale Martin, and Tiffany Harrison – each gave answers to the overall question of the Read more about Australia: Reclaiming the climate emergency locally[…]
“The Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, acknowledged the federal government has recognised the climate emergency, and I think that should be celebrated,” Councillor Trent McCarthy told City of Darebin Council at its meeting on 26 February 2024. He mentioned this in connection with putting forward a motion to launch Darebin City’s Second Read more about Australia: Federal government recognises the climate emergency[…]
Climate Emergency Australia in partnership with Maribyrnong City Council and supported by Victoria University invite councillors and council staff to join with other councils from around Australia to attend the Climate Emergency Conference 2024 in Melbourne. “Australian councils and communities reclaiming the climate emergency” – on Friday 19 April 2024 from 9:30am to 5:00pm AEST Read more about Australia: Climate Emergency Conference 2024[…]
2,355 jurisdictions in 40 countries have declared a climate emergency. Populations covered by jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency amount to over 1 billion citizens. Over 61 million of these live in the United Kingdom. In Britain around 95 per cent of the population lives in areas where the local authorities – over 570 Read more about Climate emergency declarations in 2,355 jurisdictions and local governments cover 1 billion citizens[…]
“2,326 jurisdictions in 40 countries have declared a climate emergency. Now their actions are being checked, including bans on polluting ads,” writes Fossil Ad Ban in their newsletter on 13 April 2023: “More than 100 Australian councils, as well as the ACT and South Australia, have declared climate emergencies, but so far only 11 have Read more about Australia: Fossil Ad Ban calls for a test of Climate Emergency Declarations […]
Volume 43. No. 2 of the academic Slovenian philosophy journal Filozofski vestnik, which was published on 23 March 2023, has ‘Emergency’ as its theme and contains a 29-page article by the Australian author and research director David Spratt titled “Reclaiming ‘Climate Emergency’” David Spratt writes: “Climate emergency” was the Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Read more about David Spratt: Reclaiming the term “climate emergency” an urgent task[…]
by Margaret Hender Most of the 2,300+ known Climate Emergency Declarations (CEDs) so far have been at the local government level, but 41 have been by sub-national governments. They include UK devolved governments (Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), state governments (eg. Hawaii, Quebec, and South Australia), six of the 26 cantons in Switzerland, eight of the 20 Read more about Climate emergency declarations by over 40 sub-national governments[…]
By Margaret Hender In this newsletter: New Climate Emergency declarations Local council Climate Emergency action reporting Country-specific trends VECO achievements Klimakrise declarations in Norway A new and worrying misuse of ‘climate emergency’ and a huge missed opportunity in the UK New Climate Emergency declarations The most recent Australian local council to declare a Climate Emergency Read more about Climate emergency trends in 2022[…]
A council declares a climate emergency – and then what? In a 45-minute podcast interview, Damien Williams, president of Zero Kingston 2030, tells the story about what happened in Kingston near Melbourne, home of 165,000 Australians, after the declaration. Kingston’s Climate and Ecological Emergency Response Plan was endorsed in July 2021 to guide urgent climate action, after Kingston Read more about Australia: What followed after declaring a climate emergency[…]
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[…]