Last week on August 26, the Environment Defenders Office, acting for the Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA), won a landmark case when a court ordered the NSW Environment Protection Authority to take meaningful action on climate change.  The NSW Land and Environment Court found the EPA has a legal duty to take serious action on … Continue reading Action for week starting 29.8.2021 – Share the good news! →

The recently published International Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report has shown that climate change is accelerating faster than previously thought. This is the decisive decade: we need urgent climate action now. But the Australian Government is standing still. Our emissions reduction target for 2030 is far weaker than our strategic allies, and we risk missing … Continue reading Action for week starting 23.8.2021 – Climate Council petition →

In the last week news from the Climate Council and the Environmental Defenders Office has underlined the dire situation regarding gas exploration in the Northern Territory, and the coalition government’s plans to fund it. The Climate Council’s recently released report The NSW Future of Gas Statement shows almost the entire Northern Territory covered by either … Continue reading Action for week starting 16.8.2021 –  More reasons to support the Environment Defenders Office →

Young people around the world are increasingly taking a leading action on climate change.  One of their most effective ways of doing this has been holding governments to account through legal action. This has already been done in the Netherlands, America and Canada. Now 8 young Australians, all under 18, have legally established that the … Continue reading Action for week starting 9.8.2021 – Give your grandchildren the most important gift you’ll ever give them – support the EDO →

The Climate Council was founded in 2013 by tens of thousands of supporters, in what was Australia’s largest crowd-funding campaign.  It created a new, independent and community-funded organisation in response to the abolition of the Australian Climate Commission, created by the Gillard government and abolished by the Abbott government. The Climate Council is Australia’s leading climate change … Continue reading Action for week starting 2.8.2021 – Consider becoming a Climate Council member →