Queensland Climate Movement

Workshops conducted in the open space at the Queensland Climate Summit are listed below. Where available, links to the proceedings from the workshop are provided.

Session 1

• A Queensland community-owned mobility bus service
• Targets to save the Great Barrier Reef: how to get to 350ppm
• How our food consumption effects our environment and impacts climate change
• Population and climate change
• Human displacement through climate change
• Urban sustainability

Session 2

• Nightly climate news: a campaign project
• Improving our forms of communication around climate change and responses
• Queensland energy generation and use
• Global safe climate covenant and coalition
• Why no-one’s fooled by ‘Clean Coal’: the science of CCS and geosequestration

Session 3

• Solar energy in the kitchen
• Queensland coal production and the actions and activities on coal in the next year
• Local re-skilling and lifestyle transformation (including sustainable homes)
• Illustrated overview of global issues and solutions: the need for a new holistic paradigm
• Greenhouse sceptics: where have they gone?

Session 4

• Grief and sadness: how to look after ourselves and each other in this crisis
• Step-in to step it up: how to stage an effective meeting in MPs offices
• Opposing the Greenhouse Mafia: creating a powerful people’s climate change lobby
• Radical rethink: following the paradigm shift
• Climate justice and development: international perspectives and actions