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If you’ve not yet seen our news item from last week, scroll down read a wonderful interview that WELA conducted with Anjali Sharma, young climate leader and chief instigator of the Dute of Care Bill.

David Pocock is a key supported of this bill…

“We should be thinking about young people when we make decisions. It’s our duty as politicians and policy makers to make sure the climate young people and future generations inherit is one they can live and thrive in. I want to be part of a parliament, and more importantly a country, that takes this responsibility seriously.”

David Pocock, Independent Senator for the ACT

You can here more from Senator Pocock on this and on Climate Change Education in this message that he recorded for our Summit last October.

Follow this link to add your voice: https://adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au

10-16 March 2025

Climate Action Week Sydney is a series of community-led events across Sydney from all aspects of the climate action ecosystem.

Expressions of interest to host an event at Climate Action Week Sydney 2025, aligned with the 6 core themes, are now open!

The deadline for complete event submissions is 19th February.

Find out more here:

https://www.caw.sydney

Q&A with Anjali Sharma

The Australia Institute are hosting the Climate Integrity Summit 2025, on Wed, Feb 12, 2025 on Australian Parliament House – Theatre.

The Climate Integrity Summit is a non-partisan event that convenes leading experts in economics, ecology, policy and governance to discuss a credible and achievable climate policy that serves the Australian people and broader global community.

For more information, visit their website:

Climate Integrity Summit 2025

Project Director Peta White is leading the design of ‘Agency in the Anthropocene’, the PISA framework that ‘will measure the knowledge and ability of 15-year-old students from 92 countries and economies to act on climate change.’

‘In 2025, for the first time in nearly a decade, science will be the major focus of the OECD’s program for international student assessment (Pisa) …. it will measure the knowledge and ability of 15-year-old students from 92 countries and economies to act on climate change, under a new heading: Agency in the Anthropocene.’

“We don’t teach an understanding by looking at what the most fearful climate impact is,” [Associate Professor Peta White] says. “What’s important is to allow young people to appreciate the context that we’re in and be able to move forward.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/24/how-to-teach-climate-change-so-15-year-olds-can-act

This article was published in the Financial Review on the 22nd November 2024.

See here.

One quote from the article says…

“We consider our curriculum an important piece of policy,” A/Prof White explains. “We’re asking for additional policy to support climate change education because, with this in place, schools can then be empowered to undertake climate change education connecting to their local communities.”

Senator David Pocock provided this statement for the Summit. We look forward to working with him to gain further support from our political leaders, and to legislate the Australian Climate Change Education Strategy.

14 – 18 October 2024

The Australian Climate Change Education Summit is scheduled for the final day of GCCW 2024.

“Tackling climate change is a super-wicked, coupled human and natural system (CHANS), problem.

Three CHANS—for food, water and energy—require fundamental transformation to reduce global carbon emissions.

Join GCCW 2024 to connect and tranform minds towards a systems understanding of the problems we confront and the solutions we require.”