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CACE at Climate Cooling Mini Summit

13/2/2024

 
CACE is one of three groups presenting at the Climate Cooling Mini Summit, a free online event hosted by the Sustainable Living Festival: Saturday 24 February, 1pm-4pm. Book here to receive the link.

Speakers for the CACE event are:
  • Sally MacAdams / Climate Emergency Australia / Coordinator: Sally runs the peak body for councils that have declared a climate emergency. Sally will introduce Climate Emergency Australia and her work in prompting emergency action by councils around Australia as well as act as MC for the event. https://www.climateemergencyaustralia.org.au/
  • Adrian Whitehead / CACE / Council Officer: Adrian has over 35 years campaigning experience, including co-founding the influential think tank Beyond Zero Emissions and helping win the Otway National Park. Adrian will unpack what emergency mobilisation looks like for a council, how it can drive action at higher levels of government, and will contrast current council climate emergency communication with the communication around the COVID crisis. 
  • Bryony Edwards / Director CACE: Bryony is experienced in campaigning and played a critical role in getting the first council in the world to declare a climate emergency. She will discuss how we can use council elections to leverage a council’s climate emergency agenda and potentially help a council into emergency mode.
  • Trent McCarthy / Darebin Councillor and Sustainability Expert: Trent will present on hurdles facing sitting councillors in moving into full emergency mode and discuss the role of the community in supporting councillors to make the shift into emergency mode.
  • Dale Martin / Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit / former Councillor: Dale is the author of Local Government Climate Emergency Tool Kit and a former councillor. Dale’s Toolkit is used by dozens of councils and council officers to guide their climate response. Dale will describe key mechanisms to influence council processes across the broad scope of council climate actions. https://www.lgcet.com/
  • Tiffany Harrison Coordinator and world first climate emergency officer: Tiffany will be speaking on engaging with the Climate Emergency Campaign from the perspective from a resource constrained council.

CACE has been framing and driving what council mobilisation looks like across the 3Rs (reduce, remove and repair) since 2017. 

The two other groups presenting at the Climate Cooling Mini Summit are:
  • European activists promoting socially just climate repair interventions.
  • The Climate Rescue Accord, a political campaign focused on getting parties and independents to adopt strategies across the 3Rs, reduce, remove and repair.


Read up on the full program and book here.

CACE's Climate Emergency: Hope or Hype tour

14/8/2021

 
Want to get meaningful action on global warming in your community?  Want to be the first council in the world to enter emergency mode?  Looking for a great guest speakers for you climate group? Looking to get a climate emergency campaign going in your local area.  Looking for something to do during a COVID lockdown that will help stop global warming?

CACE's Adrian Whitehead and Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit's Dale Martin are continuing their national speaking tour Climate Emergency: Hype or Hope.

This talk will inform you on how councils have and can continue to play a critical role in taken action and helping lead the climate emergency response. 

Contact Adrian on 0403 735 118 to organise a talk.
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Moreton Bay community meeting now on You Tube.

4/8/2021

 
CACE's presentation to the Moreton Bay community is now on our You Tube channel. 

The presentation include Adrian Whitehead from CACE and Dale Martin from Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit. 

Check out the video here youtu.be/yBkzL89dMG4

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SE Queensland Tour continues despite lock down

19/7/2021

 
​​CLIMATE EMERGENCY DECLARATION HYPE OR HOPE? 
Moreton Bay Event
- Tuesday 20th July 21 7pm
Five years after a single Australian council declared a ClimateEmergency nearly 2.000 governments around the world, including the EU, have followed.

Is this just semantics? Or does changing the global discourse from "climate change" to "climate emergency make a real difference?

Come and hear from two of the key change-makers involved in the first Council's CED in Darebin Victoria: Adrian Whitehead (CACE) and Dale Martin (Local Government Climate Emergeny Tool Kit)
 

Join in a lively discussion about whether Moreton Bay Regional Council should declare a Climate Emergency and what that really means. This is a Zoom event.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86500073014?pwd=eVZHT1p2S280Rng1Vkl2elI4T2h2UT09

Email Adrian for the pass code: [email protected]
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The second 'Running as a Climate Emergency council candidate' webinar set for 3 August

26/7/2020

 
Running as a climate emergency candidate in any election gives profile to the climate emergency and helps shift the conversation occurring between candidates and the community, whether or not the candidate is ultimately elected. 

The second CACE webinar, 'Running as a Climate Emergency council candidate', is set for Monday, 3 August at 7:30pm, Australian EST. The webinar should last just over an hour with a focus on the upcoming Victorian council elections. The webinar will mostly cover material for the first session with some additions - such as candidate timeframes.

Email CACE at [email protected] if you would like to attend and/or register at the facebook link.

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CACE runs webinars for those interested as running as climate-emergency candidates in council elections

5/6/2020

 
CACE will run a number of webinars for those interested in running as climate emergency candidates in council elections, with a particular focus on the Victorian (Australia) postal elections announced for 25 October 2020.

Running as a climate emergency candidate in any election gives profile to the climate emergency and helps shift the conversation occurring between candidates and the community, whether or not the candidate is ultimately elected. 

The first webinar will be one hour held on Monday 22 June 2020 at 7:30pm Australian EST.
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The Australian Climate Emergency Summit 14-15 February 2020

28/2/2020

 
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The Australian National Climate Emergency Summit was held on 14-15 February 2020 at Melbourne Town Hall. There were 2,000 in attendance. Tickets sold out early. More seats were added and sold out again.

While there were a number of nationally- and internationally recognisable names on stage, the agenda and outcomes were, for the most part, true to the emergency perspective driven by grassroots campaigners. A key outcome was that the policymakers on stage who may not have reached the emergency camp at the opening of the conference, were most likely there by the end. 

The closing plenary, led by Ian Dunlop (a former senior executive in the oil, gas and coal industry), set out a climate emergency declaration that groups and individuals can sign on to. Initial signatories to the declaration included Ian Dunlop, Carmen Lawrence, John Hewson, Tim Costello and Kerryn Phelps. This was covered in an article by The Guardian. 

CACE’s Adrian Whitehead and Bryony Edwards were on panels in three breakout sessions, including: Beyond the Declarations (Adrian); The Activism Gap (Adrian); Australia Declares (Bryony). Philip Sutton spoke on the main stage (Justice and Rights in the Emergency) and a number of breakout sessions.
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Some videos of the main stage events and podcasts of the smaller breakout events have been made available here. 

CACE in Fremantle

22/12/2019

 
Bryony Edwards of CACE gave a public talk to a small audience in at 'the Meeting Place' in Fremantle WA on 19 December 2019. 

Bryony also spoke to WA audiences in both 2017 and 2018. WA was quick to embrace climate emergency declarations, with Vincent Council, by some measures, being the second council internationally to pass a climate emergency motion. WALGA, the WA peak body for councils, also passed a climate emergency motion soon after. However the movement has languished since with only seven WA councils passing climate emergency motions, and none of those councils following up with a substantive response. Attendees spoke about the efforts made by the public to get these councils to do more.

Bryony's talk focused on how we bring about full-scale emergency mobilisation at the federal level, focusing on the role of councils in getting us there. 'We can either act like the house is on fire, or we can assign ourselves and future generations to an unspeakable future, ' she said. 'Councils that have declared need to start acting like the house is on fire'. 

Queenscliffe declares a climate emergency tonight?

19/12/2019

 
From Queenscliffe Climate Action....

Tonight’s the night!
 
7pm, Queenscliff Town Hall, 50 Learmonth Street.
 
Our petition of 2145 signatures to the Borough of Queenscliffe requesting that they declare a climate emergency and commit to developing a response plan in partnership with the community is on tonight’s council meeting agenda.
 
We do not know if a vote will take place tonight - there is every chance that a decision will be held until their next meeting in January - but we must show Council that their community overwhelmingly supports this urgent call for action by showing up in person, wearing red.
 
And, if a vote doesn’t occur, we need to respect Council’s decision to hold off for another month – as frustrating as it will feel.
 
This is our final chance to gather together in 2019 to celebrate everything that our beautiful community has achieved since our first meeting in Point Lonsdale on 30 October. What an amazing few months!
 
Hope to see you there :)
 
PS. The Mount Alexander Shire Council (Castlemaine area) declared a climate emergency two days ago as it faces a predicted surge in the number and intensity of extreme weather events.

Mobilisation Event - Darebin

15/12/2019

 
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Its now three years on since Darebin acknowledged we are in a climate emergency.  Since then over 1200 councils and  20 countries have acknowledged we are in a Climate Emergency. 

The next step in our campaign is to get our governments into emergency response mode. Emergency mode is when a government mobilises all available resources to reverse global warming and making it their number one priority of government.

If we wish to avoid a climate collapse all levels of government will need to enter this mode in order to avoid a social and ecological collapse, reverse global warming and return our climate and ocean acidity to preindustrial levels. 

The sooner our governments enter emergency mode the greater the chance we have of saving our future and saving our children’s lives.

The burning of the East coast of Australia shows us that we have now run out of time to delay meaningful action.  Every year of delay means more death and destruction before we eventually reverse global warming.

Importantly, just as councils have lead the world on acknowledging a climate emergency, council can lead the world by being the first level of government to enter this mode and model this mode to higher levels of government.  

Despite this, no council in the world including Darebin has yet gone into full emergency mode. 

Find out how a council can initiate going into emergency mode here https://www.caceonline.org/entering-emergency-mode.html

Darebin has done lots of good things for climate change in the past three years including Darebin’s Solar Saver Program, supporting the council Power Purchase Agreement, and running a climate emergency conference but has not gone into full emergency mode and wont unless we can step up the community support. 

Darebin’s unique position as the first council in the world to acknowledge the climate emergency means councils from around the world look to Darebin to define how they will respond, hence it is vital that Darebin action on climate change is world leading and best practice and move in emergency mobilisation mode.

CACE is organising a meeting to gather community members and climate activists to discuss how and if we can get Darebin into emergency mode and do some preliminary discussions prior kicking off a public campaign to get Darebin into full emergency mode. 

We have one more chance with this current council to get Darebin into emergency mode prior to the next election through Darebin’s 2020 budget and after that we will face council elections. 

The meeting is a preliminary meeting to discuss campaign ideas on setting up an Emergency Mobilisation Campaign to kick off in early 2020. 

It will focus on building public support for an Emergency Mobilisation in Darebin and ensuring we have a council elected in 2020 that will support a full emergency mobilisation of Darebin. 

The agenda:
  • Brief introductions from those present
  • Outline what an emergency mode looks like for council and why this matters to global change
  • Discuss some of the good and bad points that were encountered through the Climate Emergency Darebin Advisory committee process. 
  • Brainstorming session on possible actions and allies prior to the 2020 budget
  • Breaking into discussion groups based on ideas present in the Brain Storm and including discussions focused on community mobilisation, the next council elections, and the current council
  • Discussions around the 2020 councils election and getting a new council that will back full emergency mobilisation

We will follow up this meeting with a second meeting in late Jan or early Feb.

We appreciate your support in this vital campaign. 

Time 5-7pm Sunday the 15th of December
St Andrews Alphington / Fairfield Uniting Church
85 Gillies St, Fairfield VIC 
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