Queensland Climate Movement

A string of protests erupted across the country in angry response to the Federal Government’s announcement on Monday that Australia would only cut its greenhouse gas emissions by between 5 and 15% by 2020. Rudd’s office was the target in Queensland, with successive actions over three days attempting to amplify the pressure on the Prime Minister to fulfil his election promise for leadership on climate change.

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This is a reproduction of an article published on December 13th in the Melbourne Age. Although it was not one of the workshops at the Climate Summit, I found it to be so inspiring and hopeful that felt it was something important to share amongst the Queensland Climate Movement. You can view the original article here.

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This workshop was provided to organise actions around the Step In to Step It Up Campaign, happening across the country from December, 2008. More information on the the Step In Campaign is available from the website [http://stepitupaustralia.wordpress.com/]and you can download a copy of the Guide Book for Stepping In to plan your own campaign.

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This workshop identified a series of ways and means for groups and individuals within the Queensland Climate Movement to work together more effectively. It noted the current successes of climate emergency networks around the country, and posed a series of questions about the needs and possibilities for collaborative campaigning.

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This workshop was focused on outreach and engagement practices of the movement, and considered the question: how can we engage more people in our communities in meaningful action on climate change? Participants in the workshop considered the barriers to a more broad-based movement. For each of the identified barriers, a suite of potential movement-building solutions were developed.

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At the end of the summit, the final workshop sought to bring together the findings from the day and develop action plans for progressing the Queensland Climate Movement forward in preparation for the National Summit.
Some of the suggestions from that workshop are provided here.
Co-ordinate and network
We need to generate better mechanisms for linking up [...]

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In the evaluation of the summit, participants were asked to reflect on what worked best, and what could be improved. The details of the evaluation are provided here.

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