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#VicVotes 2018: Bendigo Candidates Engage with Climate Change ahead of State Election
October 31, 2018
Community members are getting organised and making sure political candidates are engaging with the challenge of climate change in the lead up to the Victorian state election. Melissa Abel, a community climate champion from...
Read More Add your reaction ShareWill the Victorian Liberal party get serious on climate, or haemorrhage votes on a sleeper issue?
October 24, 2018
Originally published at RenewEconomy.Victoria will go to the polls in a month and the Liberal National Party opposition, led by Matthew Guy, has failed to release a comprehensive climate change policy. Pressure is mounting...
Read More Add your reaction Share#VicVotes 2018: Will Macedon candidates match community leadership on climate change?
October 17, 2018
The Victorian election is a little over a month away and the campaign is heating up. While climate change is an under-reported issue at the state level, one place where it could have electoral impact...
Read More Add your reaction ShareHigh Speed Rail advocacy from Moreland Council over aviation emissions growth
October 14, 2018
The transport sector is the second largest and fastest growing source of emissions. Will Australian governments take steps to rein in emissions from the aviation sector? Community climate champion, John Englart, explores.High speed rail...
Read More Add your reaction Share#VicVotes 2018: Asking Gippsland Candidates the right Climate question
October 14, 2018
What role might climate change play in the upcoming state election? Peter Gardner, a community climate champion from East Gippsland, explores. The following article originally published at Peter's blog. Melbourne University energy hub senior adviser Simon...
Read More Add your reaction Share#VicVotes 2018: Climate Impacts and the Election in East Gippsland
October 14, 2018
What role might climate change impacts play in the upcoming state election? Peter Gardner, a community climate champion from East Gippsland explores. The following article originally published at Peter's blog. I have briefly examined the electoral...
Read More Add your reaction ShareFriends of the Earth International respond to new IPCC Report: ‘This is a climate emergency’
October 08, 2018
8 October 2018, Amsterdam and globally: Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change launched its Special Report on Global Warming at 1.5 degrees, Friends of the Earth International groups are mobilizing for equitable and ambitious climate action...
Read More Add your reaction ShareIPCC Report a stark wake-up call on climate change
October 08, 2018
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its highly-anticipated Special Report into the impacts of 1.5 degrees global warming. The report finds climate change is already impacting communities around the world through...
Read More Add your reaction ShareFive ways Matthew Guy and the Liberals can commit to climate action
September 25, 2018
Victoria will go to the polls in less than two months. Community members concerned about climate change impacts are still waiting for opposition leader Matthew Guy and the Liberal party to release a policy...
Read More Add your reaction SharePolicy Watch: Vic Greens, first party to support a Climate Budget in new climate & energy plan
September 17, 2018
The Victorian Greens have become the first political party in the state to support a Climate Budget with the release of their climate and energy policy ahead of the November election. Friends of the...
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