Tiffany Harrison, Executive Officer of Climate Emergency Darebin is the first local government council in Australia to declare a Climate Emergency. Tiffany will join Philip Sutton & Luke Taylor to show how councils are tackling the Climate Emergency.
Philip Sutton leads a non-profit climate emergency program, is co-founder of Safe Climate Australia, a past-President of the Sustainable Living Foundation and has been a supporter of BZE since its inception.
Luke Taylor is Managing Director of Breakthrough - National Centre for Climate Restoration.
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1. How Councils are tackling
the Climate Emergency
Philip Sutton
Strategist, RSTI
V1, 3 June 2019
2. Darebin started something in 2016
• Declaring a climate emergency and…
• Committing to a maximum protection
approach to climate action.
3. Focus on delivering protection
• Maximum protection
– zero emissions, full drawdown, maybe
temporary direct cooling
– restore a pre-warming safe climate
– fast enough to limit loss and damage along
the way – to the absolute minimum
4. Integrity framework
• Decide who/what to protect
– all people, all species, civilisation – globally
• How secure should the protection be?
– Maximum possible security – over 99%
• How much responsibility should each unit
take?
– full responsibility (even if low in hierarchy)
• What mode of action?
– emergency mode (beyond BAU, RAU)
6. In Australia – so far
• 21 Councils
• 1 Territory (ACT)
• And a growing campaign……
• Grassroots
• SLF / Breakthrough
• Greenpeace
• 91,000 signature petition
7. Why start with local governments?
• When the aim is to build a campaign for
the hugest possible demand – to “do the
lot”
– eg. implement all the BZE reports as a single
package plus create a massive drawdown
industry.
9. Comment: the diagram above is based on the one found on page 21 of the 3rd edition of ‘Crossing the Chasm’ but
has been modified to make it more relevant to climate campaigning.)
11. The start local / build mandate
model is working!!!
• Now we need to build on it.
• 13, countries, 595 governments, 71 million
people in ‘declared’ communities.
• That’s a big demand for BZE’s work.
12.
13. Need emergency mode
• To provide psychological signalling of move
beyond business-as-usual and also reform-as-
usual
• WWF 2009 report (2014 cut off for establishment of
fast normal structural change for a +2°C target – after
that “wartime speed” only option)
• To deliver full package at great speed…
• Using the power of complex program
management
