Thanks for your interest in helping create The People's Climate Strategy for Victoria!

Here's everything you need to know... 

How To Get Involved

Friends of the Earth are looking for people from all walks of life to participate - First Nations people, unionists, and more. We want to hand a strategy to the Andrews government that's been put together by a big and diverse group of Victorian community members, who all want strong action on climate.

Any and all input is welcome, whether you just time to fill in a survey, or have an hour a day to spare.

• Join your local working group by filling out the registration form below.
• Complete our online Climate Impacts survey yourself and share it with people in your community.
• Click here for a PDF copy of the survey.
• Promote the People's Climate Strategy in your region with this great poster.
• You can also promote it with this smaller flyer that contains an explainer of what the Strategy is on the back.
• Email us at anna.langford@foe.org.au for more info. 

Background

Friends of the Earth Melbourne has been building the case for science-based Emissions Reduction Targets in Victoria for the last couple of years through the work of the Act on Climate campaign.

We are expanding our focus to the state's first Climate Change Strategy which the Andrews govt is required to prepare by 31 Oct 2020. It represents an opportunity to create jobs, tackle disadvantage, and rein in emissions. But as the government is occupied dealing with the pandemic, we’ve decided to take the strategy off their hands - and throw it to the community.

On June 3, we announced our plan to write a People's Climate Strategy for Victoria. This bottom-up initiative seeks to capture local knowledge about climate impacts and solutions, and identify the policy priorities for the state and sub regions.

We're recruiting community members to help us undertake two rounds of surveying (climate impacts + solutions); participate in online conversations to design policy responses; meet local state Labor MPs to talk to them about the strategy; and drive community voting on the priorities.  

You can watch the recorded project launch here, or listen to a shorter podcast version here.

Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Act on Climate collective officially launched its push to write a People's Climate Strategy for Victoria with over one thousand people watching the online launch via Zoom and Facebook live. The strong level of interest is a vote of confidence in the idea.

Writing a People's Climate Strategy for Victoria to present to the Andrews government later this year is a bold and ambitious undertaking. But shaping the state's first climate strategy is an opportunity that can't be missed.

The Victorian government is required to prepare and rollout a climate strategy every five years out to 2050. Our efforts in coming months will influence the Labor government's own plan (which must be prepared by October 31) as well as all those that follow it.  

Friends of the Earth and the Act on Climate collective cant do it alone... 

The collective needs your help to ensure the strategy is robust, capable of getting us to zero emissions as-soon-as-possible, and leaves no Victorian behind.

Here are the immediate next steps...