What a year it's been campaigning on climate adaptation! AoC has been:

• facilitating grassroots discussions on climate adaptation in communities,
• engaging Vic Gov to secure more funding for locally-led solutions, and
• collecting and sharing examples of what preparing for climate impacts can look like to inspire Vic communities to start local initiatives that will keep people and Country safe.

Our beautiful banner made its way to all of the regional Vic Resilience Inquiry hearings and a Melbourne one to show support for our Vic Community Climate Adaptation Fund (VCCAF). We now wait for the recommendations. Did you know:

• 83.7% of submissions called for increased funding in climate adaptation,
• 49.6% called for ongoing funding, and
• over a third (39.6%) called for our VCCAF specifically?

You can add your support for the fund here. We'll continue our push for adequate and ongoing funding for climate adaptation in the new year.

Before we take a break, we have one more online Adaptation Activator call (focusing on heat impacts) and a Garage Sale Fundraiser! Hope to see you there!

SAVE THE DATE! We're kicking off next year with a Climate Adaptation Fair! Book out 8 February 2025 in your diary for this - it's going to be a spectacular day of celebrating and inspiring community-led climate adaptation.

Here is the Act on Climate crew's update on what we're up to, what's coming up, and ways you can get involved! 

It's all happening! Our FCAV is set to support local leaders wanting to advance their community's climate adaptation. And Resilience Inquiry hearings have begun.

Are you keen to progress climate adaptation in your community? Are you ready to be your community's Climate Adaptation Activator?

We're excited to help you help your community adapt! RSVP here to attend our first online Activator call on Thursday, 3 October at 6pm.

We're also fired up for upcoming Resilience Inquiry hearings! We're ready to keep our Vic Community Climate Adaptation Fund recommendation on the radar of the Inquiry committee.

Read our media release on last week's Gippsland hearing. And, let us know if you can join us outside of an upcoming hearing to show support for funding community-led climate adaptation.

To prepare for locked-in climate impacts, we need adequate and ongoing funding for community-led adaptation initiatives! Let's get behind the push for funding, while simultaneously creating the solutions our communities need to keep each other safe. 

Come meet the crew at our next social night or come to a collective meeting if you're keen to be a part of our campaign.

Here is the Act on Climate crew's update on what we're up to, what's coming up, and ways you can get involved! 

What does climate adaptation look like in action? And, how do we get the Vic Gov to increase action on adaptation?

This month, we amplified action already being taken by communities to keep each other safe. Alongside this, we helped further the discussion around adaptation gaps and opportunities in East Gippsland.

We also joined the call for a right to a safe climate to be included in Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities. The Government acknowledging that Victorians have this right will lead the way to recognising the risks we face. After which, supporting Victorians to be safe will become compulsory.

Communities will be safest and best supported through unavoidable climate impacts if they have the tools to determine their own adaptation pathway.

That's why we are:

• Supporting communities to identify and develop their own adaptation solutions. This increases local resilience to withstand threatening climate impacts, and
• Calling on the Vic Gov to fund communities' adaptation solutions - see our proposal for a Vic Community Climate Adaptation Fund.

RSVP for a collective meeting if you're keen to be a part of our campaign or learn some organising skills - no experience required, just passion for climate justice.

Or, join our Frontline Climate Alliance Vic (FCAV) - we would love to have you involved if you are keen on progressing climate adaptation in your local community.

Here is the Act on Climate crew's update on what we're up to, what's coming up, and ways you can get involved! 

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the Resilience Inquiry and helped push our recommendation for a Victorian Community Climate Adaptation Fund (VCCAF) to ensure adequate and just climate adaptation that is community led! A short roundup of the incredible effort and outcomes of this below.

With the submissions stage of the Resilience Inquiry process closed, what's next? Join us in visioning and strategising the next stage of our advocacy for climate prepared Victorian communities at our upcoming in-person strategy sessions.

Or if you want us to come to you and help your community start the conversation around climate adaptation, reach out to us and we will come facilitate a community resilience mapping event. 

Join the Frontline Climate Alliance Vic (FCAV) calls to work together towards community-led climate adaptation and more resilient Victorian communities that keep people safe. Last month, the FCAV was presented the thought-provoking findings and practical recommendations for creating more climate resilient communities in the Care Through Disaster report. Link to the recording below if you missed it.

This month, we'll be hearing from Moonee Valley Sustainability about about its Cool Safe Space project. More below!

RSVP for an upcoming collective meeting if you're keen to be a part of our campaign or learn some organising skills - no experience required, just passion for climate justice.

Here is the Act on Climate crew's update on what we're up to, what's coming up, and ways you can get involved! 

The submissions deadline for the Inquiry into Climate Resilience has been extended to June 28th! We will be using this time to support more people and groups to have a say on Victoria's preparedness for climate disasters.

We've put together a Resource Pack filled with content for you to make a submission and support others to do the same.

Have you made your submission yet? We've just introduced an easier way to make your submission in as little as five minutes right now...

Last month, the Frontline Climate Alliance Vic featured examples of local adaptation initiatives. Link to the recording below if you missed it.

RSVP for an upcoming collective meeting if you're keen to be a part of our campaign or learn some organising skills - no experience required, just passion for climate justice.

Here is the Act on Climate crew's update on what we're up to, what's coming up, and ways you can get involved!

It's been a huge month for the Act on Climate collective. We're organising in various places, in our own network and beyond; building alliances, forming new relationships and planning how we can do more with the upcoming opportunities posed by the Inquiry into Climate Resilience. 

Last week we coordinated the third FCAV (Frontline Climate Alliance Vic) call. A different configuration of people have come together each month for these meetings, raising quality discussion.New ideas and connections were formed!

Scroll down for some of the highlights from our conversations, as well as more about the VIC Gov's Inquiry into Climate Resilience, and all about our first community resilience mapping activity.

RSVP for an upcoming collective meeting if you're keen to be a part of our campaign or learn some organising skills - no experience required, just passion for climate justice.

On the first sitting day of 2024, 6 February Act on Climate and others from Friends of the Earth were on the steps of parliament to ensure building a Climate Ready Vic is top of VIC MPs' minds.

Victorian communities already know what climate change impacts are affecting them and what adaptations are needed, and they are calling out for help. The three VIC towns discussed below are three of many anxious about climate adaptation. These communities are calling for help with adapting to incoming climate change impacts and this is what they are calling for...

Here is the Act on Climate crew's update on what we're up to, what's coming up, and ways you can get involved!

As 2023 wraps up as the hottest year on record and some settle into holiday mode, we’re continuing our preparations for a dangerously hot summer.

The responses to climate impacts we’re seeing here and now are being driven by local communities helping each other through disaster. This solidarity and mutual aid is critical and heartwarming, but it’s not enough.

Recently during COP28 negotiations we joined Move Beyond Coal activists at the office of Josh Burns MP to turn up the heat on Labor. We are calling for no more new fossil fuel projects and Funding for Climate Resilience.

Every step we take to help communities adapt to now unavoidable climate impacts secures a safer future and builds resilience, protecting people and country.

RSVP for an upcoming collective meeting if you're keen to be a part of our campaign or learn some organising skills - no experience required, just passion for climate justice.

The COP28 Climate Conference has just wrapped, and climate-impacted communities around the world watched in horror as a record number of fossil fuel industry lobbyists walked the halls and watered down attempts at strong commitments to tackle the climate crisis.

As Asah Rehgman writes "We are the ones who actually know this is a life-and-death fight. We are the realistic ones, and so we are the only hope for the future."

Friends of the Earth International has concluded that the COP28 outcome was undermined by dangerous distractions and lack of finance. “We need billions of dollars, we’ve been given peanuts, and even more debt to boot,” warned Bareesh Chowdhury of FoE Bangladesh.