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Adaptation as a catalyst for social change - MACC Hub

Explore how transformational adaptation can address climate risk, inequality and austerity by investing in people, wellbeing and more resilient societies.

Climate Council: Home

Australia's leading climate change communications organisation.

Victorian Climate Collaboration – Our Policy Platform

Across Australia and around the world, the impacts of climate change are being felt through worsening bushfires, floods, droughts and heatwaves. The impacts we are experiencing now are early signals of far worse to come. Time is rapidly running out to avoid the devastating impacts of a 2°C or warmer world. Every fraction of degree of warming matters and will be measured in lives, species and ecosystems lost or saved.

Governance models

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Austerity and climate (in)action

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, many governments implemented austerity policies aimed at reducing budget deficits through public spending cuts. This column examines the rollout of programme awarding grants for home energy efficiency upgrades in the UK examine the extent to which cuts to local government finances may have impacted efforts to promote climate action. The findings suggest that austerity, combined with poor digital skills, undermined local authorities’ efforts to effectively carry out a climate action policy that was centrally planned but locally administered.

Leveraging agency for climate change mitigation

Climate debates often frame individual behaviour and systems change as distinct pathways to action. We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems, and that this agency should be actively leveraged to achieve meaningful climate change mitigation.

The Future of Governance is not Governments

Living systems on every scale have governance — methods of self-regulation to manage the coherence and continuity of the system. Also, for…

Political Scenarios for Climate Disaster - Dissent Magazine

In the Global North we often act as if our future will be a warmer version of today: liberal capitalism, plus flood insurance, minus coral reefs. That future is a fantasy.

Appropriate Technology, Permacomputing, Post Growth, and Ecomodernism.

To adapt to the changing climate, we need to radically rethink how and why we do the things we do. From technology, to social movements, to economics. The world is at stake. And we can change it.

Addressing climate change and protecting our environment – Victorian Socialists

The climate crisis is driven by the profit motive. We need a shift to 100 percent publicly owned renewable energy and an end to old-growth logging.

The Owning Impact Project | MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative | MIT Sloan

The Owning Impact Project examines the role that systemic investing strategies can have in fostering transformative change.

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

Polling reveals SA fed seat One Nation tipped to win - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

People who want Australia to declare a "climate emergency" should instead visit a refuge for women fleeing domestic violence, a newly appointed senator Sarah Henderson believes.

Embedded Governance: Control That Works by Disappearing - Astral's Blog