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The momentum around getting adequate and ongoing funding for climate adaptation continues! This month, we've had our first round of community members meeting their MPs to pass on our Climate Resilience Inquiry report and talk about local adaptation needs. We're also launching our Australian Climate Adaptation Map, which displays climate adaptation initiatives underway across Australia! It's not too late to set up a meeting with your MP (reply to this email for more info!) or to RSVP to our online and in-person Climate Adapt Map Storytelling Launch tonight! And it's easy to quickly fire off our pre-filled MP email if you haven't already. Interested in getting one of the inspiring climate adaptation initiatives on our map going in your area? Join our Adaptation Activator calls, on which we come together to share ideas, resources and solidarity for building resilience locally to keep those most at risk in your community safe. RSVP for the next call here. |
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More on all the upcoming AoC events and ways to support us and others in preparing for locked-in climate impacts below! Keen to join our campaign or learn some organising skills? Come to a collective meeting - no experience needed, just passion for climate justice. |
MPs Being Asked to Act on Adaptation
Our Climate Resilience Inquiry report is being delivered to state MPs by people worried about local climate preparedness. So far, meetings have been held with Gabrielle de Vietri, Paul Edbrooke, and Vicki Ward.
The message is clear: Victorian communities want and need to adapt to locked-in climate impacts. Increased action to adapt to climate change is vital to protect Victorians from these climate impacts.
The report shares how communities can and want to adapt, as well as inspiring examples. Most vital, and appealed for by councils, organisations, and community members alike, is more being invested in climate adaptation by the Victorian Government to enable adaptation to happen.
Want to meet your MP? Reply for more information! Or email them using this pre-filled email.
Local Adaptation Organising Monthly Call
Our next Adaptation Activator call is Aug 7 at 6pm! Hear the story of Dindi Transition, a local group building resilience through connected, informed, & organised citizens. Then connect with others to discuss applying this to progress adaptation locally.
There'll also be a Resilience Inquiry update and a chat on ways we could potentially respond as a network.
Climate Adapt Map Storytelling Launch (online & in-person)
Join AoC tonight for a night of stories, mulled wine (or hot chocolate!) drinks, live music from Charly Oakley and a little bush dancing to celebrate our new Australian Climate Adaptation Map.
Jump online to join the circle and hear the stories from afar. RSVP here for the link and if we'll be seeing you on Smith St!
Upcoming Events
- 12 Aug, 5:30pm, Parliament House: Defend the Right to Protest rally
- 15 Aug, 9.30am-1pm, Victorian Trades Hall Council: Public Forum: A New Economic Vision for the Labour Movement
- 17 Sept, 7:30-9pm, Balwyn Park Centre: Climate & the Future of Sport
- 19 Sept, DisasterWISE & Resilient Lismore's Community Congress - seeking expressions of interest from community groups and community-led organisations wanting to present at the 'unconference' session - EOIs extended to Fri 1 Aug!
- 28 Oct-11 Nov, various, Geelong: Resilience Canopy Practitioner Training
Read/Watch/Listen 
- The Cost of Climate Change at the Checkout report by Farmers for Climate Action
- Community-Based Disaster Learning Reviews: A Practice Guide by Fire to Flourish
- Weathering the Change: Climate Change, Emergencies and Disasters, and Gendered Health Equity in the Loddon Mallee theory of change by Women’s Health Loddon Mallee
- Climate crisis could hit yields of key crops even if farmers adapt, study finds
- Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach - World Resources Institute working paper
- Environmental Justice Australia NAIDOC Week Next generation now interview: Zhanāe Dodd
- Extreme heat is our future – European cities must adapt
- Monash Green Lab roundtable video - Learning from wildfire: Do institutions constrain our ability to manage risk reduction and recovery?
- New protections for nature must account for climate risks, scientists say
- Climate cash crisis: Can investment planning fix Europe’s finance adaptation gap?
- HowWeSurvive webinar recording - Chat with the Contributors of the Disaster Recovery Almanac Volume 1
- A customizable survival kit for climate-fueled disasters
- Mental health and poverty remain a struggle for Maui wildfire survivors, new study says
- How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine
Support the Act on Climate collective!
Want to help ensure we can continue doing these calls and the vital work of preparing communities for climate impacts?
Please help us continue our work preparing communities for locked-in climate impacts by making a once-off donation or signing up for monthly donations by becoming a member of the Act on Climate Collective.
Together we can help prepare communities for now unavoidable climate impacts!
Get in touch if you'd like to get involved or hear more about what we're doing:
- Vicky Ellmore: [email protected],
- Kim Croxford: [email protected], or
- Kimmi Bebendorf: [email protected]
Remember, you're always welcome to join Act on Climate's weekly meetings. Our organising and action meetings will take place on the alternative fortnight to the Organising Training Workshops.
All weeks include dinner. Register here for an upcoming Tuesday.