This month we've been reflecting on all we have already achieved this year and all the exciting plans we have for the rest of the year. From our fantastic Climate Adaptation Fair to researching, writing and releasing our Climate Resilience Inquiry report, we have been at the forefront of progressing climate adaptation in Victoria. Read more about all we have achieved below!

We're on the way to creating climate prepared communities in Vic through empowering communities and pressuring the government. Let's keep the momentum going!

We're at a critical point in our campaign and we've got big plans going forward.

Right now our collective is gearing up to visit communities to galvanise local climate adaptation through education, inspiration and support. We are empowering communities to develop their own climate resilience and adaptation plans... but we need your help. Can you help us by making a small but critical tax-deductible donation?

Even $10 or less helps - no donation is too small! It all adds up.

Your contribution will also enable us to continue pushing for increased funding of climate adaptation. Our pressure on the Vic Gov to provide adequate funding for community-led climate adaptation is working!

With climate impacts here now, we can't afford to let this momentum go to waste! We need your support to keep us campaigning.

Can you contribute $10?

Unable to support us monetarily this time? More 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.

Want to progress climate adaptation in your community? Act on Climate's Frontline Climate Alliance Vic (FCAV) are holding calls fully focused on supporting local leaders in Victorian communities wanting to help progress community-led climate adaptation locally. 

The alliance began exploring climate adaptation in Victoria as a group in November 2023, first focusing on bringing people together to learn about, amplify, and action community-led climate adaptation. Now, the FCAV space is stepping up local Climate Adaptation Activators wanting to make their community resilient in the face of unavoidable impacts. Community catalysts ready to take their region along on the journey of adaptation will be aided by the alliance to accomplish this. 

Activator call #9

Join us for the 9th Adaptation Activator call on Aug 7 at 6pm. This month's topic is tbc - let us know if there is something in particular you would like us to focus on.

We will also make space to hear from you - please bring along any ideas, challenges or learnings you have and share them with the group. 

The Frontline Climate Alliance Vic is building grassroots power for community-led adaptation solutions, and building pressure on the Vic government to act on climate adaptation while preparing our communities for now unavoidable climate impacts.

RSVP to this call and come along to hear how you can progress your local community's climate adaptation!

Or sign up to be a local Climate Adaptation Activator or to keep in touch and hear more about our campaign for community-led climate adaptation.

This meeting is online. Hope to see you on the call!

 

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We acknowledge that the lands we meet and work on across so called Victoria are stolen from First Nations people. Climate justice means land back and there can be no climate justice without justice for First Nations communities everywhere. Act on Climate values the leadership of elders past and present in caring for country. Solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people under settler colonialism in so called Australia is critical in the fight for liberation from all oppressive systems that devalue and exploit people and the environment.

Act on Climate facilitated a community resilience mapping session hosted by the Whittlesea Climate Action Network (WCAN) at the start of this month. The session was invigorating, with many great actionable ideas coming up, and passion from those in the room to start working on them. 

Having appropriate and relevant climate resilience initiatives are key to keeping communities safe. Community resilience mapping helps communities to understand their unique challenges and strengths, and which climate impacts they’re most at risk from, so that they can implement appropriate solutions. It identifies the residents most at risk, where a community has strong climate resilience, and where the gaps are in its climate impact readiness.

We're offering support to anyone who wants to facilitate the activity in their own community. Check out our Community Resilience Mapping Facilitation Guide, which you can use to guide the running of your own event!

Community Resilience Mapping is used to achieve good climate resilience, through community members brainstorming strategies that keep community members safe. The session:

• Helps inform adaptation and emergency response plans & the prioritisation of time and resources
• Results in practical community-led solutions & knowledge of how can stay safe

Through identifying: 

• Exposures: various climate impacts
• Sensitivities: who/which areas most at risk
• Assets: what already in place to reduce impacts
• Adaptive Capacity: where are the gaps

This activity was adapted from the Climate Resilience Project.

Read more on what community resilience mapping is and why to do it.

Read on for more about the community resilience mapping session with WCAN and it's outcomes.

Act on Climate (AoC) has officially launched its new report, VIC Climate Resilience Inquiry Analysed: The leading concerns & adaptation solutions! If you missed it, want to share it or want a recap, there's a recording!

Watch the launch video below or on YouTube. 

Read more about the report here, then send an email about it to your state MP. Even better, take one to them in person! (reach out to us about doing this - we can help with resources, and we would love photographic evidence)

The Victorian Government’s budget for 2025-2026 is touted as focusing on cost of living and community safety, but without meaningful investment in climate adaptation, costs for Victorians (both economic and physical) will remain high. 

New report on Vic’s Resilience Inquiry reveals united appeal for increased funding of climate adaptation and the most popular climate adaptation solutions

Act on Climate (AoC) attended and shared its campaign material at the Hotter, Drier, Risker: Bushfire in the Colac-Otway Region event in Colac on 16 April 2025 at Colac Otway Performing Arts & Cultural Centre. The event set out to explore: "with bushfire seasons getting longer and more intense, how can our communities be safer and better prepared?"

It featured Colac Otway Climate Action Team, members of which are part of AoC's Frontline Climate Alliance Vic (FCAV) and attend AoC's Adaptation Activator calls, Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, Emergency Leaders for Climate Action's Greg Mullins, and Australian Firefighters Climate Alliance. In addition, candidates standing for the seat of Wannon in the 2025 federal election were there to share their views and answer questions.

The evening was well attended by community members from all over the Colac-Otway Region and covered what’s changing in our environment, what it means for fire risk, and what governments can do to prepare us.

The Act on Climate collective’s latest report, VIC Climate Resilience Inquiry Analysed: The leading concerns & adaptation solutions, shares how Victorian communities can and want to adapt, as well as inspiring examples of what community-led climate adaptation looks like.

Find out the climate adaptation solutions Victorians want to see funded and enacted, then ask your MP to advocate for increased funding of climate adaptation and the climate adaptation solutions communities are calling for using our pre-written email. 

On 8 February 2025, the Act on Climate collective curated the first ever Climate Adaptation Fair at Borderlands Coop. Have a listen to the panel discussions that were had on the day, from topics such as how to care for Country and communities ourselves to how can we adapt our food systems. 

Click on the links to listen to the recordings on YouTube or listen to them below.