Australian Climate Change Education Summit and Action Plan
“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.”
The date has been set for a long time… 18th of October 2024 from 11am to 4pm ADET.
Now you can register and hold your place as part of the Australian Climate Change Education Summit.
The program will be updated and an outline will be shared here (coming soon).
The Summit Voices (digital recordings of your voices showcasing important climate change education from across Australia) will be highlighted across the day. See here for details.
In this Speaker Series event we are in conversation with Craig Reucassel, writer, comedian, director, and documentary maker.
Craig and a group of university mates founded The Chaser newspaper, which led to a number of ABC TV Chaser programs including The Election Chaser, CNNNN, The Chaser’s War on Everything, Yes We Canberra, The Hamster Wheel and the satirical consumer affairs show The Checkout.
In 2017, 2018 and 2023 he presented the multi-award winning ABC TV series War on Waste. In this series Craig took a critical look at household and retail waste and asked what has led us to become among the most wasteful nations in the developed world? In 2020, Craig presented the ABC TV climate documentary series Fight for Planet A (which has also been published as a book), and Big Weather (and how to survive it). In this last series Craig drew on unique access to Australia’s emergency services, first responders and local communities to create a gripping series filmed over one intense summer.
Craig’s work in film, television, as a writer, as a director, and as a comedian draws attention to how we can make change, what change governments need to make, and the role of education.
This Speaker Series event features a panel of speakers bringing together their practice through Australian Youth Climate Coalition and Striking Voices.
Dr Eve Mayes (she/her) will facilitate this panel discussion. Eve is a Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University in the School of Education (Research for Educational Impact), living and working on unceded Wadawurrung Country.
Natasha Abhayawickrama (she/her) is an undergraduate university student at the University of New South Wales with over five years of experience as a community organiser, living and working on unceded Gadigal Country. She is currently employed as an organiser with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and as a Research Associate at Deakin University.
Netta Maiava (she/her) is a Pacific Climate Warrior, a volunteer community organiser under 350.org, living and working on unceded Wadawurrung Country. Netta currently works as a Research Associate at Deakin University.
Grace Vegesana (she/they) is the National Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, and a 24 year old woman-of-colour who has been building youth power to end fossil fuel expansion since she was 17. Her legacy includes co-founding the People of Colour Climate Network, pioneering climate justice organising on Dharug Country in Western Sydney with AYCC, and mobilising 3000 Australian businesses to join the Climate Strikes.
Join us in this panel conversation where Eve facilitates and climate justice organisers discuss their experiences and the possibilities for transformative climate justice and climate change education.