The strategy of getting more councils and governments to declare a climate emergency is changing the story. Why is that important?
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“Everything must change:” Drone action with picnic at Heathrow Airport
Video from three EU election candidates’ press conference at Heathrow Airport in United Kingdom, calling for Heathrow Airport to pause all flights.
Cooperate as never before to radically reorganise
Thoughts, reflections and observations on Saturday’s – from a climate activists’ perspective shocking and sad – election result in Australia, where once again a hollow promise of “a strong economy” and the right to pollute our common atmosphere and destroy our kids’ future won over the promise of climate action
Louder. The call for an Australian climate emergency declaration has never been louder
“We will take this emergency seriously,” said opposition leader Bill Shorten just two days before the federal election and on the same day the ACT Government declared a climate emergency.
Direct action, disobedience and an emergency restart button
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 15 May 2019 are from the Australian climate action community
#ClimateStrike: Unprecedented youth mobilisation around the world
Friday 3 May 2019 was a Climate Election Day of Action in 75 locations across Australia, where thousands of students left their schools in order to pay their local federal politicians a visit instead, as a contribution to the #climateelection debate. Australian voters will go to the polls to elect
The Australian #ClimateElection
“If you’ve been keeping your powder dry, waiting for the moment when the climate fight really needed you–right about now would be that moment.”
In defense of our planet: Give your vote to the kids
London calling: In The Sustainable Hour on 8 May 2019, we cancel some of our planned interview appointments in order to make room for reporting about something historic: the breakthrough for the climate emergency declaration and mobilisation which has been pushed forward by the school strikers and the Extinction Rebellion
Ten minutes a day keeps a crisis away
I’ve become fond of numbers. I realised how clearly numbers speak. Every day, I am confronted with numbers in all sorts of possible and impossible sizes – numbers that at the same time speak to all sorts of possible and impossible emotions. But with all the exotic numbers roaming around in this world, I recommend that we remember the
School-strikers inspire governments to declare a climate emergency
On 1 May 2019, the British Labour party moved a non-binding motion in the House of Commons to declare ‘an environment and climate emergency’, which was passed by members of the Parliament across the floor.