Why Councils?

 ​​Business as usual and campaigning for incremental change and suicidal targets has
​ led us into a climate emergency. 
With international agreements and national governments failing to stop – let alone reverse – global warming, councils can and are playing a key role in leading the climate emergency response.
Step 1. Acknowledge or declare we are in a Climate Emergency

Step 2. Mobilise your community and move your council into emergency mode 
By declaring a climate emergency you will support a call for immediate and urgent action to reverse global warming and avoid the coming climate catastrophe. Your council can add its voice to over 1500 councils that have already declared.
Emergencies require emergency responses

A council's key roles

Upwards
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Lobbying state and national governments to adopt and fund a full climate emergency response
Sideways

Encouraging other councils to implement a climate emergency response through networks and by leading by example
Inwards
Educating the council staff about the climate emergency and what a council can do to respond from the CEO down. 
Downwards
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Local emergency action through education, mobilisation, mitigation and resilience building.

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