Event description
The climate crisis poses the single greatest threat to the security and well-being of Australians, touching nearly every aspect of their lives, not the least of which is their health. Yet, for the most part, the Government continues a business-as-usual approach that neither proportionately addresses the root cause of the crisis (the use of fossil fuels) (mitigation) nor prepares communities for unavoidable and likely climate futures (adaptation).
In its special chapter on Australia, the most recent IPCC Report warns: “The projected warming under current global emissions reduction policies would leave many of the region’s human and natural systems at very high risk and beyond adaptation limits.”
Files:
- Professor Penny Sackett’s slide deck is available here
- ‘Waking up the Snake: Ancient Wisdom for Regeneration’: a paper by Anne Poelina, Bill Wedd, Sandra Wooltorton, and Naomi Joy Godden