News - Climate Reality Australia

WELCOME TO NEW CLIMATE LEADERS

14/6/2019

Last week saw The Climate Reality Project welcome over 800 people to Brisbane for their 41st Climate Reality Leadership Corps training, to engage in conversations on climate change and become personally activated by former US Vice President Al Gore.

The Climate Reality training was delivered in partnership with the Queensland Government as part of the inaugural Climate Week Queensland.

The First of Many Trainings: Denver

10/3/2017

Glen Garner, La Vergne Lehmann, Linh Do (The Climate Reality Project's lead in Australia) and Paul Wilkes in Denver.

972 individuals from over 30 countries have joined The Climate Reality Project as leaders, having recently been trained by Al Gore in Denver, Colorado.

Over 2-4 March, in the first training of 2017 and the 34th on the overall, the message was clear: “We need to get active. Large numbers of passionate grassroots activists can make all the difference,” Gore emphasised to a packed convention centre.

Individuals, including three Australians, at the training join a community of over 10,000 people of all ages and walks of life pushing for action on climate change.

Paul Wilkes, a research geophysicist at CSIRO from Perth by day remains a concerned scientist by night. It was this that led him, and close to 3,000 others, to apply for the training.

As someone surrounded with the realities of climate change daily, Paul was “keen to learn more about how to get messages across without scaring people about the situation we have created”. Since returning home from Denver, Paul will continue to give talks throughout Perth with an updated international perspective.

In the decade of Climate Reality trainings, a focus on the science and impacts remains steadfast. A highlight for many trainees was a two-hour long panel facilitated by Don Henry, a Climate Reality board member and professor at the University of Melbourne.

Alongside Al Gore, Dr. Henry Pollack and Dr. Kevin Trenberth, the panel fielded questions varying from the future of battery storage for renewable energies to the most effective things Climate Reality Leaders could do upon returning home.

The trainings, which regularly rotate locations, continued to dedicate time to regional impacts, and the importance of localising the impacts, solutions and actions individuals can take.

La Vergne Lehmann, a veteran Climate Reality Leader first trained in 2007, knows this all too well. She returned to Denver to assist newly anointed Climate Reality Leaders in personalising their work upon returning home. As someone who works in the waste and resource recovery sector in regional western Victoria, La Vergne plans to connect her work to the impacts on climate change.

Beyond the science and impacts, a key focus of the trainings is the solutions possible, and how everyone has a role to play.

Glen Garner, based in Brisbane, has spent his career working with the energy and utilities sector to see these solutions being implemented. He continues his efforts by joining the “people power movement” to “changing the political tide and lifting the lid on the ignorance that believes there is no alternatives”.

Glen, La Vergne and Paul join a community of individuals working on climate change from across all sectors of society from farmers and emergency responders to educators and the business sector.

Apply to the next training in Washington state from June 27-29 here: https://www.climaterealityproject.org/training

Weekend Reading on Climate Change - 20 May 2016

20/5/2016

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

This Week in Climate Change - 19 May 2016

19/5/2016

Guess what? This year is going to be the hottest on record. We’re passing more points of no return. The south pole is melting really fast. Poorer countries will feel the effects of climate change more quickly than developed nations. Yep. It’s not a great week but there are rays of light from the renewables industry - all that and more in This Week in Climate Change.

This Week in Climate Change - 13 May 2016

14/5/2016

This was a week where there was a lot of big statements about climate change - impacts, readings, needs, action, inaction, firsts, progress and delays. The debate also welcomed a new high profile advocate for action on climate change - the new Mayor of London.

Weekend Reading on Climate Change - 13 May 2016

14/5/2016

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

This Week in Climate Change - 6 May 2016

10/5/2016

Even though we have record warm temperatures in Australia in April and May - it is snowing - snowing with news about climate, energy and conservation, thanks to the imminent calling of the election. While this is happening, the rest of the world keeps on turning and getting hotter with devastating impacts across all continents.

Weekend Reading

3/5/2016

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward: http://www.climatecommunication.net/reading/

This Week in Climate Change

3/5/2016

Get your handy weekly digest of climate change news here: http://www.climatecommunication.net/review/

This Week in Climate Change - 28 April 2016

28/4/2016

Fifty-five countries sign up to fix 55 per cent of the problem; climate change moves to the central of the Australian federal election campaign and in case you missed it…. NASA says the Antarctic ice sheets are melting so quickly that sea levels could rise by roughly three metres by mid century. Yes, really.

Weekend Reading - 29 April 2016

28/4/2016

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

This Week in Climate Change - 21 April 2016

21/4/2016

World leaders land in New York to put pen to recycled paper or e-ink on the Paris climate change convention deal; the barrier reef is said to be knock knock knockin’ on heaven’s door and a senior Australian Government member says climate science isn’t yet settled. yes, really. All that and more, sigh, in This Week in Climate Change.

Weekend Reading - 22 April 2016

21/4/2016

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

This Week in Climate Change - 14 April 2016

14/4/2016

The ice sheets are melting and the world is starting to spin differently. Yes, really. It is like when you use a hair dryer to de-ice a fridge. While things melt, nations speed up the implementation of the Paris agreement and clean energy adoption picks up pace. All that and more in This Week in Climate Change.

Weekend Reading - 15 April 2016

14/4/2016

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

2016 Climate Reality Leadership Corps

12/4/2016

Anika Molesworth, Australia's young farmer of the year, just completed the Climate Reality Leadership Corps in the Philippines, bringing together people from all over the world with the vision and energy to tackle the greatest threat to our planet – climate change.

Climate and health training manual

12/4/2016

Climate Leader Alice McGushin talks about the health impacts of climate change and a new training manual, created by the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations, to help students, young professionals and the wider community to achieve a healthier future.

This Week in Climate Change - 7 April 2016

7/4/2016

Trillions of dollars of financial assets at risk from climate change; Barack Obama highlights the health impacts of global warming; the Queensland government approves something that will likely never happen and, the auto industry changed this week with Tesla Model 3 going on sale. All that in more in This Week in Climate Change.

Weekend Reading - 8 April 2016

7/4/2016

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

Weekend Reading - 1 April 2016

1/4/2016

A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net