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Charging a youth-driven decarboniser revolution
Briefing paper for youth climate strike speakers Published on www.fridaysforfuture.org/how: How to climate strike If you are one of the courageous teenagers who’ll be taking the microphone on Friday to inspire hundreds or thousands of your peers about what we need to do now, here’s some strategic advice from Centre
Launch of Geelong’s new 30-year vision
On 30 August 2017, ministers and members of the Victorian parliament gathered together with the Geelong administrators at the city hall for the launch of the ‘Clever and Creative Future’ vision for Geelong. Finally, after 18 months of work and consultation with over 16,000 Geelongians, we have it in front
A city waves goodbye to ‘business as usual’
During the next decades, the Geelong city and region is going to transform itself to become a ‘clever and creative city’ if things go as decided by an assembly of 350 local residents who gathered on 6 May 2017 to choose between four proposed future scenarios. If you live in
Geelong now has a Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy
The new strategy provides a target for the City of Greater Geelong council: in three years, by 2020, council must halve carbon emissions from its buildings and vehicle fleet. With the release of its new Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy for the period 2017–20, the City of Greater Geelong council wants
The key to unlock the current climate action stalemate
The greatest threat humanity has ever been confronted with is not climate change. It is us, human beings, and the way we have organised ourselves in democracies where money flows both openly and secretly back and forth between powerful commercial interests and members of our governments. The threat of climate
Submission for the parliamentary inquiry into the Paris Agreement
Submission from Centre for Climate Safety to the Australian Government’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Parliament House in Canberra, regarding the Paris Agreement treaty being considered, and regarding the actions the government must take to drive emergency-speed emissions reductions in Australia. Centre for Climate Safety welcomes the opportunity to present
City looks its future in the eye – on Threatened Species Day
Simone Boer and Tim Hellsten from City of Greater Geelong explain about the exciting ‘Our Future’ project which the city council launched on 1 September 2016 with an aim to create a conversation with at least 25,000 of the city’s residents. Future Super CEO Simon Sheikh grabs our radio relay
City of Greater Geelong endorses the One Planet Living principles
In the evening on 28 October 2014, Geelong’s Council approved a new Environment Management Strategy. It was a cheerful moment for both the councillors and the local residents who had been following and influencing the process. The paper has been almost three years on the way, because it has been
Carbon diem: Seize the carbon
How can we effectively reduce our fossil fuel emissions to zero? Will we have to wait for federal politicians to cut their ties with the fossil fuel industry and for consensus in the United Nations before we can begin the transition away from burning coal, gas and oil? Not at