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気候緊急事態における議会の行動
Council Action in the Climate Emergency

Building the safe climate campaign from councils up

Why Councils?

With international agreements and national governments failing to stop – let alone reverse – global warming, councils can play a key role in leading the climate emergency response.
​​Business as usual or incremental change has led us into a climate crisis. 
 By declaring a climate emergency that includes a call for immediate and urgent action to reverse global warming, your council can add its voice to over 400 councils that have already declared a climate emergency. 

Councils can also:
  • Educate on the climate emergency using existing or low cost communication channels, while building support for a broader climate emergency response at the state, national and international levels
  • Mitigation - reduce emissions and drawdown previous emissions 
  • Build community resilience against some global warming impacts.

Actions could include cost positive programs (ie, incurs an implementation cost but is ultimately of greater financial benefit to the council) or a council committed to taking emergency action can chose to step into emergency mode.

Emergency mode or mobilisation is when councils allocate all
discretionary funds available to the council to the task of
community education, advocacy for action by higher levels governments, mitigation or resilience building and could include funding or undertaking the planning and research needed to implement full state and national emergency mobilisations. See the nuts and bolts ideas here.

Councils, even in emergency mode, cannot provide the needed solutions by themselves, hence building
 pressure on  higher levels of government to fund and legislate for emergency action to restore a safe climate are the most critical task a council can undertake. Making a Climate Emergency Declaration is the first step.
Emergencies require emergency responses

A council's key roles

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

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Sideways

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

Take action

Campaigning for a climate emergency response in your council?
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how you can help your council declare and implement a climate emergency response
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make your life more climate friendly and become a lifestyle leader  amongst your friends and community .
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    • History
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