CACE at Climate Cooling Mini Summit

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.