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Adaptation Alliance Call 11 & 12: Housing & Local Strategies
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On our 12th and final Climate Adaptation Activator call for the year, we heard from Indigo Regen about its journey fostering climate awareness and creating love for place. It was shared how it has incorporated adaptation through the resilience inquiry and its community cool seats. Here's all the info, ideas and solidarity shared on the call, as well as some upcoming events and resources... See this month's presentation here. Find Whittlesea Climate Action Network's presentation on its story and strategy, which it shared last month, here. |
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AoC Dec 25 Update: Celebrating Wins & Keeping Each Other Safe this Summer
What a year progressing climate adaptation in Victoria!
Celebrate with us while helping us continue this work by attending our gig fundraiser this Friday! Come along to hear more about our work this year and what we have planned for next year.
In the past month alone we have facilitated 8 MP meetings, had our campaign mentioned in Parliament, joined a FoEM contingent at Rising Tide, and helped launch Renew Australia for All's Climate Safety Plan.
This brings the total so far to 16 MPs met with. There's still time to meet yours or quickly fire off our email asking for adequate adaptation funding in the next budget.
Zooming out, together, this year we:
- heavily influenced the Inquiry into Climate Resilience, with the need for more funding demonstrated and a VCCAF mentioned as a key funding mechanism,
- circulated our Climate Resilience Inquiry report to promote the findings and adaptation solutions,
- had impactful community resilience mapping sessions,
- launched our Australian Climate Adaptation Map,
- held monthly Adaptation Activator calls connecting people across Vic (an update on these is below!), and
- hosted an incredibly inspiring Climate Adaptation Fair showcasing solutions and creating lasting connections (another is planned for next year, but likely only in the second half of the year - watch this space!).
AoC Nov 25 Update: Climate Safety Plan launch & other events
It's November already and while our collective is working on an exciting adaptation project to be launched in the new year, we have a couple of events we want to share with you for the last two months of 2025.
We also published our 2026/2027 Budget Submission, in which we call for adequate and ongoing funding for community-led climate adaptation in Victoria. Check it out to learn more about our ask.
Adaptation Alliance Call 10: Resilience Case Studies
On our 10th Climate Adaptation Activator call we looked at the climate adaptation case studies highlighted in the Climate Resilience Inquiry as examples that have built local resilience.
Here's all the info, ideas and solidarity shared on the call, as well as some upcoming events and resources...
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AoC Oct 25 Update: Supporting Communities to Respond to Climate Impacts
September was a busy month, with the long-awaited National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) making headlines across the media. While many people focus on the bleak predictions of climate impacts, it is important to consider the immediately available solutions to reduce risks.
Victorian communities are already working on local climate adaptation solutions, such as the Nillumbik Climate Action Team (NCAT) with whom the Act on Climate Collective facilitated two Community Resilience Mapping sessions in September.
Next week, Act on Climate will be heading down the Surf Coast to connect with local climate action groups progressing climate adaptation. We look forward to learning more about local needs and building future collaborations to reduce climate risk. To support us with this work, please consider donating to or becoming a member of Act on Climate.
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Save the date!
On Dec 5, Act on Climate will host a band night fundraiser at the Creatures of Habit bar in Fitzroy. We look forward to a fun night in support of climate justice and deepening our connections with members and supporters of AoC. There will be brilliant performances by local artists and a raffle with all the prizes you could desire. The lineup and prizes will be announced soon. Save the date 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. |
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AoC Sept 25 Update: Vic Showing Up to Shape Preparedness
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Victorian communities are coming together and showing up to shape the state's climate preparedness! They have been taking the lead on their adaptation plans, through visioning, learning from and teaching and inspiring each other. And they have been sharing these plans with their MPs and the Vic Gov through the Inquiry into Climate Resilience. We've been busy delving deep into the Inquiry's Parliamentary Report and are ecstatic seeing how the issues AoC and its supporters and allies raised increased the breadth of the report, ensuring issues such as equality, First Nations- and community-led adaptation, and climate justice were included. In addition, the solutions required to keep people safe from climate impacts advocated for, with incredible backing by individuals and organisations, shone through as informed, just, well-supported solutions. We've summarised its 400 pages into 10! Read what the report found were the barriers to Vic's resilience and the ways it can increase it here. |
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This month, more community members have meet their MPs to pass on our Climate Resilience Inquiry report and talk about local adaptation needs (reply if you're keen to meet yours!). Our Australian Climate Adaptation Map launch was a resounding success. Be sure to check it out if you haven't already and read our recap of the night here. We've got more resilience mapping coming up in Nillumbik, as well as our regular monthly Adaptation Activator call. We're trying out a new regular night of the week for these calls - the second Monday of the month from 6pm-7.30pm. More on all these 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. |
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Adaptation Alliance Call 9: Local Organising
On our 9th Climate Adaptation Activator call we explored local community organising, discussing Dindi Transition as an example.
Here's all the info, ideas and solidarity shared on the call, as well as some upcoming events and resources...
There's also an exciting Climate Resilience Inquiry update below!
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AoC Aug 25 Update: 🔦 Shining a Light on Adaptation Funding & Examples
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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. |
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Adaptation Alliance Call 8: Energy Resilience
On our eighth Climate Adaptation Activator call we explored building energy resilience with renewables.
Here's the recording, all the info, ideas and solidarity shared on the call, as well as some upcoming events and resources...
Our next call will be on 7 Aug 6pm - hope to see you there! RSVP here.
Meeting presentation here.
Read moreAdaptation Alliance Call 7: Drought & Food Insecurity
On our 7th Climate Adaptation Activator call we explored adaptations for drought and food insecurity.
Here's all the info, ideas and solidarity shared on the call, as well as some upcoming events and resources...
Our next call will be on Thurs 3 July 6pm - hope to see you there! RSVP here.
See the presentation here.
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