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Category: World affairs

Good news we take with us into 2023

27 December 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, World affairs

New Year is a time to take a breather, recharge the batteries and lift the glasses, while reflecting on both the wins and the failures of the year that went by. 2022 was a year flooded with bad news, however so much the more, it is important at this time

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Call for a treaty to stop the fossil madness

26 December 2022 Guest writer Educational, World affairs

2022 was the year that the Fossil Fuel Treaty evolved from a conceptual idea to a proposal backed by two countries, 74 cities, and over 500 parliamentarians.

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Greta Thunberg: The truth about the climate crisis

3 November 2022 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

Greta Thunberg spoke at the Royal Festival Hall in London at ‘The Climate Event’ on 31 October 2022 – an event which was organised by Southbank Centre in partnership with Penguin. The video recording of the event was only made available on Youtube until the end of November 2022, unfortunately.

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Festival of civil disobedience

10 October 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, World affairs

The Victorian ‘Spring Rebellion – a festival of civil disobedience’ – opened with an action in Geelong.

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Emissions keep increasing. Does the climate movement need new strategies?

17 June 2022 Guest writer Educational, World affairs

Bill McKibben and Neil King from Deutsche Welle spoke with two of the world’s leading climate activists — Kumi Naidoo of South Africa, the former head of Greenpeace International, and Luisa Neubauer, sometimes called the Greta Thunberg of Germany — about what their movement needs to do now to defuse the onrushing climate

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Global call for unity: Standing with the world on our shoulders

27 April 2022 Mik Aidt Recommendation, World affairs

‘Resolution Song’ brings together voices from all over the world in a demonstration of global unity and a call for action to protect the planet. The project was created by Planet Resolution and an album and video was released as part of Music Declares Emergency’s ‘Turn Up The Volume’ music industry climate action week in

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#FindYourRole: The soil champion, the climate activists and the coal miner

16 November 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

The Sustainable Hour no 389 with soil champion Bev Middleton, Blocade Australia activists Marco and Rilka, and coal miner Grant Howard.

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A letter to our overseas friends

28 October 2021 Guest writer Australian matters, Commentary, Recommendation, World affairs

Is Australia really acting on climate change?

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Faith groups speak up for climate action

22 October 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

With over 500 actions in over 40 countries, a #Faiths4Climate campaign marched to government offices.

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Global forum for urban leaders taking on the climate emergency

10 October 2021 Mik Aidt World affairs

Report from the virtual conference ‘Daring Cities’, co-hosted by the City of Bonn.

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