Climate Emergency Conference in Melbourne

Could Darebin’s climate change strategy be something that municipalities in other countries could adopt, further develop and localise?

Perhaps it could be the most important purpose of the global climate movement for the coming months and years to push and help municipalities (and young climate-striking Gretas) to gain momentum in this process? That’s the vision of the climate policy strategists who helped Darebin City Council create its climate emergency plan.

Your curriculum now is these four new publications:
http://climateemergencydeclaration.org/four-climate-emergency-agenda-setting-publications-out-of-melbourne/

But before then: Start with reading Paul Gilding’s chronicle:

» The Age – 11 September 2018:
It’s not too late to act on climate change
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/it-s-not-too-late-to-act-on-climate-change-20180911-p50318.html

And then… take a look at:

• Darebin’s 118-page climate plan:
http://www.darebin.vic.gov.au/-/media/cityofdarebin/Files/Darebin-Living/CaringfortheEnvironment/EnergyandClimate/ClimateChange/DarebinClimateEmergencyPlan2017-2022.ashx?la=en

• Adrian Whitehead, Community Actionin the Climate Emergency: http://caceonline.org

• David Spratt, Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration:
https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au

• 15 September 2018: Moreland Council declares a climate emergency
http://climateemergencydeclaration.org/moreland

• Report by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop:
‘What Lies Beneath – The Understatement Of Existential Climate Risk’
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0_a0d7c18a1bf64e698a9c8c8f18a42889.pdf

• Podcast: Kids on school strike, councillors in emergency mode
http://climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour233/

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Darebin City Council in Melbourne “looked rationally at what the science told them – that we face a crisis and the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency. And so they did. In consultation with their community, they then developed the Darebin Climate Emergency Plan.

Why is this significant? Because this is how systems change. Ideas take hold and spread. Darebin has since been followed in the US with a small but growing list of elected bodies in regions and cities also declaring a climate emergency. First came Montgomery County, Maryland, since joined by Richmond, Berkeley and Los Angeles in California, and Hoboken, New Jersey. This is not emerging spontaneously, but through active organising by groups dedicated to the task like The Climate Mobilisation.

So on the surface, Darebin Council inviting a group of experts like myself to suburban Melbourne to discuss what a climate emergency means might not seem much. But it is a crucial part of a process whereby we first normalise the idea that we face an existential crisis. Next we will come to accept that the only rational response is a WWII-like economic mobilisation to eliminate global net carbon dioxide emissions within a decade or so.

Find this hard to imagine? It is. But as we learnt from Churchill in 1940, when we shift our thinking to “what is necessary”, what we can achieve is quite extraordinary. Or as Nelson Mandela said: “It always seems impossible, until it’s done.” ”
~ Paul Gilding, Author, Business Activist

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