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CLIMATE EMERGENCY CONFERENCE WORKING TOGETHER TO ENGAGE, EMPOWER AND MOBILISE ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT AND OUR COMMUNITY TO TAKE ACTION ON THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY.
PROGRAM
CLIMATE EMERGENCY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
TIME ACTIVITY PRESENTER PRESENTATION TITLE
8.30am Conference registration
9.00am Welcome to Wurundjeri Elder
country
9.15am Welcome from Kim Le Cerf,
Mayor Mayor Darebin
City Council
9.30am Presentation Jacynta Fuamatu Pacific Climate Warriors
- 350 Pacific
9.50am Presentation David Spratt - Research Beyond urgent: The
Director, Breakthrough science of climate
National Centre for warming as existential
Climate Restoration risk
10.20am Presentation Paul Gilding - Climate change as a
Independent Writer and global emergency
Advisor on Sustainability
10.50 - Presentation Philip Sutton - Manager Climate Emergency
and Strategist, Research Response
and Strategy for Transition
Initiation
11.20am Morning tea
11.40pm Panel discussion Facilitator - Kim Climate emergency
Le Cerf, Mayor action vs climate change
Darebin City Council action – what is different?
Panellists - Philip Sutton,
Susan Rennie,
Darebin City Council.
Luke Taylor Breakthrough
– National Centre for
Climate Restoration
12:10pm Presentation Larissa Baldwin - Senior Climate Justice in the
Campaigner for Aboriginal Climate Emergency
and Torres Strait Islander
Rights, GetUp!
12.30pm Lunch
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CLIMATE EMERGENCY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
1.15pm Presentation Kate Fitzgerald, Director, Emergency Management
Relief and Recovery, and the Climate
Emergency Management Emergency
Victoria
2.00pm Presentation Brynn O’Brien, Executive Building Civic Power in
Director, Australasian Capital
Centre for Corporate
Responsibility
2.45pm Panel discussion Facilitator – Rachel Mapping Darebin’s
Ollivier, Manager City climate emergency
Sustainability and Strategy journey
Panelists - Susan
Rennie, Gavin Mountjoy,
Coordinator, Energy and
Adaptation, Darebin
City Council and Bryony
Edwards Community
Action in the Climate
Emergency (CACE)
3.30pm Panel Discussion Facilitator – Tiffany Climate Emergency
Harrison, Executive Darebin: Who, what,
Officer, Climate why, when and how
Emergency Darebin
Panelists – Madeleine
Brennan, Vanessa Petrie
and Adrian Whitehead,
Members Climate
Emergency Darebin
4.00pm Afternoon tea
4.15pm Facilitated Trent McCarthy, Darebin Facilitating Action: Ideas,
session City Council and Climate initiatives and innovations
Emergency Darebin from the floor
4.45pm End Day One presentations
6.30pm - Evening Jeremy Heimans, New Power: Building
8.30pm Presentation, founder of GetUp! and social movements by
Q&A author of New Power: unleashing the power of
How Power Works in our the connected crowd
Hyperconnected World
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CLIMATE EMERGENCY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
TIME ACTIVITY PRESENTER PRESENTATION TITLE
Panel discussion Facilitator - Climate emergency
Session A Madeleine Brennan communications and
Climate Emergency engagement: Different
Darebin (CED) perspectives
Panelists - Jane Morton
Darebin Climate Action
Network, Giselle
Wilkinson Breakthrough
- National Centre for
9.30am Climate Restoration,
David Meikeljohn
Executive Officer,
Northern Alliance for
Greenhouse Action
Presentation Karen Kiang, Embracing a Plant-Rich
Session B Paediatrician, Royal Diet: The intersection of
Children’s Hospital environment, agriculture,
and Doctors for the politics, economics, and
Environment health
Presentation Angela Rutter, Moving People to Action:
Session A Co-Director, Communications and
Common Cause engagement solutions
Presentation Alex Sangster, Minister Radical Action at the
10.15am Session B of the Word, Fairfield Heart of Faith: Working
Uniting Church; Tejopala with faith communities to
Rawls Community fight climate apathy
Organiser, Australian
Religious Response to
Climate Change
4CLIMATE EMERGENCY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
11.00am Morning tea
Presentation Bronwyn Gresham, Personal mobilisation in
Session A Clinical psychologist and a climate emergency:
volunteer, Psychologists The role of emotional
for a Safe Climate awareness and
11.15am psychological skills for
engagement
Presentation Adrian Morphett, The benefits of biochar in
Session B Principal Environmental combatting the climate
Engineer, Earth Systems emergency
Presentation Katerina Gaita, Director, Talking climate change
Session A Climate for Change with friends, neighbours,
family and colleagues!
12.00pm Presentation Manny Pasqualini, Community Power:
Session B Principal, Zero Carbon Scaling our community-
Strategy & Programs, driven response to
Moreland Energy climate change and
Foundation energy poverty
Presentation Sue Hopkins, Mobilising to take climate
Session A Sustainability Manager, action at work and at
University of Melbourne home (lessons from the
Green Impact program)
12.45pm
Presentation Charles Massy, The benefits of
Session B Farmer, Teacher, Author, regenerative agriculture
Agricultural Innovator in combatting the climate
emergency
1.30pm Lunch
2.30pm Workshop Trent McCarthy, Workshop: Consolidating
Darebin City Council ideas and developing
commitments for
ongoing action
4.30pm - Closing session Trent McCarthy, Closing session
5pm Darebin City Council
5ABSTRACTS
(LISTED IN ORDER OF SPEAKER)
JACYNTA FUAMATU PAUL GILDING
Pacific Climate Warriors Climate change as a global emergency
As an activitist through her work as If climate change poses an existential risk
a Pacific Climate Warrior, Jacynta to society, what does it mean to have an
uses her voice to elevate stories from emergency response, technologically
frontline communities impacted by and politically? How should we act?
climate change. We can learn from
existing communities that are active in PHILIP SUTTON
the climate movement. The lessons we Climate Emergency Response
can take from frontline communities In this presentation Philip will explore
(diaspora communities) not only add what it will take to deliver maximum
value but also send a powerful message protection of the climate vulnerable
of solidarity and unity, thus empowering and the restoration of a safe climate.
culturally diverse communities. It is not He will sketch an action framework to
an easy task to mobilise a community cool the planet fast, via zero emissions
to support a cause without investing and carbon dioxide drawdown, through
quality time in forming relationships emergency mode action by government,
in them; this builds trust which is businesses and the community, and
valuable. In this presentation Jacynta building on key historical case studies
will share some stories and reflect of large-scale, rapid restructuring of
upon ways we can work in solidarity economies.
across organisations in our networks to
demonstrate climate leadership. LARISSA BALDWIN
Climate Justice in the Climate Emergency
DAVID SPRATT
Beyond urgent: The science of climate
Aboiriginal and Torres Strait Islander
warming as existential risk people are experiencing climate change
now. In this presentation Larissa will
Climate change is already dangerous, share the experience of climate change
and the projected warming in the wake as a lived and present reality, and one
of the Paris Agreement in 2015 poses a that will continue to impact dramatically
threat to human civilisation unless the as communities are potentially moved
pace and scale of action to decarbonise off land into urban centres in the future.
society and return to a safe climate is Climate justice requires attention to
radically increased. This presentation will these impacts, and for indigenous voices
look at recent observations, projected to be present in responding to the
warming and impacts on key features climate emergency.
of the climate system, and analyses
how the understatement of climate
risks has become incorporated in the
communication of scientific research
and in policymaking. Parameters for
returning to a safe climate will be
elaborated.
6KATE FITZGERALD KAREN KIANG
Emergency Management and Embracing a Plant-Rich Diet - the
the Climate Emergency intersection of environment, agriculture,
politics, economics, and health
Drawing upon examples from the
disaster relief and recovery sector, this Unhealthy environments, climate change,
presentation will explore ways we can and poor diet are major contributors
develop and implement a whole of to both chronic and acute illnesses.
government and community focused Changes to the way we produce our
approach to the climate emergency. food, and the type of food we eat, are
In addition, this paper will extrapolate urgently required for both human and
from experience in the disaster relief planetary health.
and recovery sector, elaborating some
guiding principles and lessons learned ANGELA RUTTER
which can be applied to the climate Moving people to action -
emergency. Communications & Engagement Solutions
This presentation will focus on insights
BRYNN O’BRIEN and results from research undertaken
Building Civic Power in Capital for Darebin City Council’s Climate
Australia’s superannuation funds Emergency / Communication and
are now responsible for more than Engagement Solutions project, using an
$2.6 trillion, with which they invest in evidence based story structure. Tips on
companies across the country and the how to apply the research in practice will
world. Through activist shareholdings, also be covered.
Australian Centre for Corporate
Responsibility seeks to make super ALEX SANGSTER AND
funds accountable for ensuring a safe TEJOPALA RAWLS
climate future, by amplifying their Radical Action at the Heart of Faith:
work within Faith Communities to fight
influence over listed companies. In climate apathy
this presentation Brynn will explore
strategies for responsible businesses as Many people of faith feel very
well as opportunities for shareholders strongly about the climate crisis. This
to use their power to ask companies to presentation will explore how faith
improve their performance on issues you communities can demonstrate strong
care about including climate emergency. climate emergency action. In particular,
examples from the Stop Adani
JEREMY HEIMANS campaign will be shared. The workshop
New Power: Building social movements will include a conversation about Non
by unleashing the power of the connected Violent Direct Action.
crowd
Jeremy will talk about digital activism
and how to use the new model of
power which is open, participatory and
peer-driven – to build a movement,
in this case, a climate emergency
movement. Jeremy’s work is relevant
to many issues and causes for people
wanting to gather support and
momentum.
7BRONWYN GRESHAM ADRIAN MORPHETT
Personal mobilisation in a climate The benefits of biochar in combatting the
emergency: The role of emotional awareness climate emergency
and psychological skills for engagement
Earth Systems has been engaged with
There is a growing body of evidence Manningham City Council for the past
on the range of emotional impacts 2.5 years diverting their internal parks
of climate change; both from people and gardens tree prunnings and green
affected by extreme weather events, waste from landfill and converting it to
and those coming to grips with the a carbon sequestring product called
scale and complexity. Yet while people biochar. Biochar is a true form of carbon
will generally agree climate change sequestration, locking up the carbon of
is happening, there is a reluctance to the original tree for 1000 years plus in a
wholeheartedly accept the difficult stable carbon form. Normally biochar is
news of the scale and urgency of used for soil applications adding carbon
action required. This talk will share to poorly performing soils to improve
three common challenging emotional their performance with increased surface
experiences. A model will be shared area, water holding capacity, nutrient
to understand the emotional systems holding capacity and other benefits. In
activated. The word ‘emergency’ will this presentation Adrian will share the
be explored through reflecting on our biochar development story including the
personal experiences, to consider the research which highlights the carbon
meaning and inform application. sequestration capacity of biochar, the
EPA approval process, the working
relationship with Manningham Council
and lessons learned along the way.
KATERINA GAITA
Talking climate change with friends,
family and colleagues
Social research tells us that most people
process information and form opinions
through conversations with others. How
can those of us who understand the
climate emergency and how humanity
needs to respond have more effective
conversations with those around us
to get them on board too? Climate for
Change has facilitated conversations
in the communities of Melbourne and
now Brisbane with over 5000 people. In
this presentation Katerina will share her
experience as a climate communicator,
reflecting on what has been learned
and the social research that informs the
Climate for Change approach.
8MANNY PASQUALINI CHARLES MASSY
Community Power – scaling our The benefits of regenerative agriculture in
community-driven response to climate combatting the climate emergency
change and energy poverty
As the Earth moves further into
‘Community Power’ has taken off as the Anthropocene and ongoing
a concept in Australia and provides destabilization of seven of its eight
a range of ways for communities to regulating systems, constructive
own, lead, participate in and benefit solutions seem hard to find in the face
from the renewable energy boom. This of an ongoing commitment by business
session will explore some of the models and political leaders to economic
making an impact, and the tools and rationalism. However, emerging out
resources being created to help drive of the pack is one field of collective
the sector. The ‘Community Solar Portal’ endeavour providing some exciting
will be given a sneak peek ahead of solutions to these Anthropocene
its upcoming launch – a web based problems: that of Regenerative
platform designed to help showcase agriculture. By healing key landscape
investment model projects, manage functions, there is now powerful
community investment and provide evidence (supported, for example,
access to resources such as fit for by Hawken’s book ‘Drawdown’) that
purpose legals for new community solar collective regenerative agriculture can
projects. drawdown carbon from the atmosphere
by more than a factor of two compared
SUE HOPKINS to the next best method. In this talk
Mobilising to take climate action at work Charles will explain the background to
and at home (lessons from the Green this exciting potential and to possible
Impact program)
future pathways.
The Green Impact program is a change
and engagement program piloted
for the first time in Australasia at The
University of Melbourne in 2017. Learn
how UoM has implemented a program
that gets staff and students working
together to create the change they want
in their departments. Teams can focus
on their strengths and change their
workplace from within. The program
is about ensuring sustainability is
fun and inclusive. In reflecting on the
Green Impact program Sue will share
strategies, tips and innovative ways to
raise awareness about sustainability, and
collaborate, to deliver real change within
complex organisations.
9SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
(LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)
LARISSA BALDWIN KATE FITZGERALD
Senior Campaigner for Aboriginal and Director, Relief and Recovery,
Torres Strait Islander Rights, GetUp! Emergency Management Victoria
Larissa is from the Widjabul clan of Kate has led development and delivery
the Bundjalung nation. She currently of relief and recovery reform across the
leads GetUp’s Aboriginal and Torres emergency and management sectors in
Strait Islander campaigns and strategy roles including Director of the Australian
nationally ensuring partnerships with Government Crisis Coordination Centre
frontline communities and empowerment and Relief and Recovery Directorate in
of First Nations People to create change. Emergency Management Australia. Kate
Larissa was also the Co-Founder of holds a Masters and Bachelor Degree in
Seed - Australia’s first Indigenous youth Emergency Management from Charles
climate network and was previously the Sturt University and has studied as an
National Director of Seed. She has 14 International Fellow at the East-West
years experience working in Aboriginal Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
controlled organisations across the
social justice and environmental sectors. JACYNTA FUAMATU
Larissa is passionate about many issues Melbourne Coordinator, 350 Pacific
facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Born and raised in Australia, Jacynta
Islander people and believes in seeking identifies as both an Australian and
change through self-determination and Samoan. She has been working in the
grassroots leadership. climate movement since 2014 alongside
the Pacific Climate Warriors mobilising
MADELEINE BRENNAN communities to demonstrate climate
Committee member, leadership on the ground level and in
Climate Emergency Darebin
global talks; from using traditional canoes
Madeleine, a freelance writer, editor and to bloackade coal ships in Newcastle,
communications strategist has experience NSW, storytelling at the Vatican, and
across the community, agriculture, using flowers at Cop23 in Bonn, Germany.
sustainability and energy sectors. In her
role with Climate Emergency Darebin, she KATERINA GAITA
applies the ‘think global, act local’ mantra Director, Climate for Change
and is committed to strengthening Katerina is a climate communicator
community and building resilience specialising in community engagement.
through positive action. Her passion and expertise are in
BRYONY EDWARDS helping everyday people understand
the problem and challenges we face
Community Action in the Climate Emergency
in climate change, then inspiring and
Bryony campaigns for safe climate empowering them to make a difference.
restoration by running as a climate Katerina has more than eight years’
emergency candidate for Save the experience in behaviour change and
Planet in state and local government in project and business management,
elections, and encouraging community including founding and growing a small
groups to support climate emergency sustainability business from conception
action though Community Action in to one with more than 200 clients and
the Climate Emergency. She works in 30 staff over four years.
human services policy, and has lived in
Darebin since 2008.
10PAUL GILDING TIFFANY HARRISON
Independent writer and advisor Executive Officer, Climate Emergency
on sustainability Darebin.
Paul is an author, corporate advisor Tiffany is an ecologist who has been
and campaigner for a sustainable working in the environmental sector for
economy and a global authority on over 12 years in diverse roles including
the implications of climate change. He research, policy and planning as well as
works around the world alerting leaders campaigning and advocacy. She has
– in business, NGO’s, government and focused on climate change strategy
even the military – to the emerging and response for the last 6 years, in
global economic and ecological crisis. particular engaging with the significant
A long-time advocate for emergency role local governments have in climate
mobilisation in response to climate action and community engagement.
change, he co-authored the One Degree
War Plan in 2009. His book The Great JEREMY HEIMANS
Disruption is widely acclaimed, including Founder of GetUp!, author of ‘New Power:
by Tom Friedman in the New York Times How Power Works in our Hyperconnected
who wrote Ignore Gilding at your peril. World’.
Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder
BRONWYN GRESHAM and CEO of Purpose, an organization
Clinical psychologist & volunteer, headquartered in New York that
Psychology for a Safe Climate (PSC) builds and supports social movements
Bronwyn has 12 years therapeutic around the world. He is the co-founder
experience largely in public mental of GetUp!, an Australian political
health settings. She works in community organization with more members than all
therapy and has interests in holistic of Australia’s political parties combined.
health including the interconnections With Henry Timms, Jeremy is co-author
between our wellbeing, the environment, of the book New Power: How Power
our community and broader contexts Works in Our Hyperconnected World –
that influences experiences of life. PSC and How to Make It Work for You.
is a not-for-profit Melbourne based
organisation that acknowledges the
need for strong and urgent action on
climate change and aims to increase
understanding and engagement with
climate change.
11SUE HOPKINS CHARLES MASSY
Sustainability Engagement Coordinator Farmer, Teacher, Author, Agricultural
at the University of Melbourne Innovator
Sue has been working in the Charles combines management of the
environmental/sustainability space for family grazing property (Severn Park),
almost 20 years, in particular spending 10 teaching in universities and consulting on
years within tertiary education institutions. Merino breeding and landscape design.
Before joining The University of Melbourne He has served as a Director on national
in 2016, Sue worked for Australasian and international industry bodies
Campuses towards Sustainability, a not for involving garment manufacture, wool
profit organization engaging universities marketing, R&D, molecular genetics and
across Australasia. In her current role genomics. Charles has also engaged
Sue has led implementation of the in freelance journalism and writing for
Green Impact program, an innovative many years. His latest book, Call of the
sustainability engagement program, Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A
which has mobilised hundreds of staff and New Earth (UQP Sept. 2017) explores
students to undertake positive actions to transformative and regenerative
improve the environmental performance agriculture and the vital connection
of their workplaces. between our soil and our health.
KAREN KIANG TRENT MCCARTHY
Paediatrician, Royal Children’s Hospital, Councillor, Darebin City Council
Melbourne
Trent was elected to his third Council
Karen is an advocate for children’s term in 2016. Co-founder of the award-
health, particularly in regard to the winning Solar Saver program, Trent has
impacts of climate change on children in led Darebin’s climate policy work over
developing countries and on refugees. the past decade and is a longstanding
Karen is a member of the Climate member of the Northern Alliance
Change committee with Doctors for the for Greenhouse Action. He believes
Environment Australia, and has recently community leadership is essential in
been part of a working group on climate responding to the climate emergency.
change with the Royal Australasian
College of Physicians. DAVID MEIKLEJOHN
Executive Officer, Northern Alliance
KIM LE CERF for Greenhouse Action (NAGA)
Councillor, Darebin City Council David has previously worked as a
Cr Le Cerf was elected to Darebin Council journalist and a behaviour change
in 2016 and is currently serving as Mayor consultant delivering programs to
of an invigorated new Council featuring encourage sustainable transport
six women. She is passionate about uptake, healthier living and reducing
the environment and wants to create household greenhouse gas emissions.
a sustainable future for generations NAGA is a network of nine councils
to come, with much of her career in northern metropolitan Melbourne
being devoted to responding to the working together on climate change
climate challenge within state and local He is currently completing a PhD
government. Cr Le Cerf feels a strong on the responses of Australian local
connection to the local community where governments to climate change.
she lives and is raising her three children.
12JANE MORTON BRYNN O’BRIEN
Convenor, Darebin Climate Action Now Executive Director, Australian Centre
Jane is a clinical psychologist, who has for Corporate Responsibility
specialised in values-based treatment for Brynn is a lawyer and has a background
people with severe emotional difficulties in human rights, global work and
and a history of trauma. She was the migration issues. She is an expert on the
lead author of a number of major UN Guiding Principles on Business and
reports, one of which resulted in the Human Rights. Her experience traverses
establishment of a state-wide service both commercial and human rights
for people with borderline personality law, and she has worked extensively
disorder, and another in the creation of in the field of human trafficking and
a specialist therapy service for young slavery in global supply chains. Brynn
people in out-of-home care. Jane is holds a Master of Laws from Columbia
currently finalising a booklet on how to University in New York and a Bachelor of
talk about the climate emergency.
Medical Science and Bachelor of Laws
ADRIAN MORPHETT with first class honours from UTS.
Principal Environmental Engineer, RACHEL OLLIVIER
Earth Systems
General Manager City Sustainability
Adrian has over 18 years experience and Strategy, Darebin City Council
in the energy and carbon sectors.
Adrian was a member of the team that Prior to her current role Rachel held
developed the CharMaker technology, a various positions in the community,
commercialised pyrolysis technology for private and government sectors, both
processing woody biomass to biochar, nationally and internationally, across
heat, wood vinegar and electricity. climate, sustainable building, energy and
Creation of biochar diverts green carbon issues. She was also a lecturer
waste and timber from landfill and/ on Environmental Regulation and Policy
or compost thus sequestering carbon. at RMIT. The City Sustainability and
Adrian runs a CharMarker unit through Strategy division includes the following
the Manningham City Council for which departments: City Development, City
an EPA approval process for organic Futures, City Safety and Compliance,
certification is underway. and Environment and Sustainable
Transport. Rachel is a graduate of
GAVIN MOUNTJOY the Australian Institute of Company
Energy and Adaptation Coordinator, Directors, holds a Master of Finance,
Darebin City Council a Graduate Diploma of Public Relations
Gavin has worked in the environment and a Bachelor of Environmental
sector in local government for 18 Science.
years. In his current role he has led the
award winning Solar Saver program,
delivering solar power to close to 1,000
pensioners and residents in Darebin. He
is also overseeing the expansion of that
program to meet the goal of doubling
solar in Darebin by 2021, by adding
another 18,000 kW of solar. Gavin has led
the change-over of 10,000 streetlights to
energy efficient lights, development of
the Climate Emergency Plan, and helped
to establish and support the Climate 13
Emergency Darebin Committee.MANNY PASQUALINI TEJOPALA RAWLS
Principal, Zero Carbon Strategy & Community Organiser, Australian Religious
Programs, Moreland Energy Foundation Response to Climate Change (ARRCC)
(MEFL)
Tejopala is a member of the Triratna
Manny has worked in conservation, Buddhist Order. His work on climate
climate, water and environmental change includes organising within
management projects in Europe, Latin the global Buddhist community,
America and Australia. Previously, as coordinating a national energy efficiency
Director, Community Power Agency and scheme, giving Al Gore’s well-known
project manager of the Community Solar slideshow presentation, media relations
Toolkit Project, and in his current role, for the New Zealand Green Party, and
Manny has focused on building a strong performing stand-up comedy about
and vibrant community energy sector. the issue. ARRCC is a grassroots
At MEFL Manny is leading development multi-faith organisation taking action
of innovative approaches to enabling on climate change, especially on the
greater access to the benefits of clean Adani coal mine. Tejopala is passionate
energy and sustainable design at a about rapidly changing the political
range of scales and in collaboration with environment so that climate policies
industry, community stakeholders and all become commensurate to both the
levels of government. scale and urgency of the problem.
VANESSA PETRIE SUSAN RENNIE
CEO, Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) Councillor, Darebin City Council
and Committee member,
Climate Emergency Darebin Cr Rennie was elected to Council in
2016. She is a long term public health
Since joining BZE in early 2017 Vanessa campaigner and community activist
has partnered with her team to deliver for gambling reform and for equality.
Rethinking Cement, the world’s first Susan works to enhance community
strategy for decarbonising the cement health and wellbeing, and believes that
industry, the Zero Carbon Communities we cannot achieve good community
Guide, won Best International Energy health without environmental health.
Think Tank in the 2018 Prospect Think Applying this lens, she has become
Tank Awards; and secured BZE’s a champion for decisive action to
ranking as 50th Best Independent respond to the climate emergency.
Think Tank in the world. Vanessa has
worked in local and State Government
including in infrastructure planning,
project management, legislative policy
development, major policy reform and
waste and resource recovery strategic
planning. Vanessa is a Director of the
Goulburn Valley Waste and Resource
Recovery Group Board. She has a
Bachelor of Environmental Engineering
(RMIT) and a Masters of Environment
(University of Melbourne).
14ANGELA RUTTER DAVID SPRATT
Co-Director, Common Cause Australia Research Director, Breakthrough
National Centre for Climate Restoration.
Angela’s interest in social change
has shaped her career. As Director David is a Melbourne businessman,
of Engagement at the Australian climate policy analyst and
Conservation Foundation Angela led the co-founder of Carbon Equity. David has
development of new values-based story extensive advocacy experience in the
and community engagement strategies, peace movement and in developing
resulting in a growing and vibrant community campaign communication
community speaking out for a world and marketing strategies. He is active
where nature thrives. She has expertise in the community-based climate
in developing civic leadership, leading movement and co-authored Climate
Climate Reality Australia for several years, Code Red: The case for emergency
and works with Leadership Victoria, an action (2008, with Philip Sutton).
organisation dedicated to creating better
leadership for a better world. PHILIP SUTTON
Manager and Strategist, Research and
ALEX SANGSTER Strategy for Transition Initiation
Minister of the Word, Philip is a sustainability strategist who
Uniting Church, Fairfield has worked on the climate emergency
Alex is actively involved with Australian approach to action since 2006. His focus
Religious Response to Climate Change. is on developing strategies that rapidly
Action for justice is at the heart of her restore a pre-warming safe climate
religious vocation. Alex also works as through a climate emergency response.
an actor and facilitator with Melbourne He co-authored Climate Code Red: The
Playback Theatre Company. Alex is case for emergency action (2008, with
closely involved in the Stop Adani David Spratt) and in an earlier life was
campaign. Together with Tejopala Rawls the architect of the pioneering Flora
she was arrested when they blocked the and Fauna Guarantee Act passed by the
access road to the Adani work site of the Victorian Parliament.
rail line with a peaceful, multi-faith ritual
of meditation, prayer and song. In April LUKE TAYLOR
this year she helped deliver a joint letter Managing Director, Breakthrough - The
from 60 religious leaders across Australia National Centre for Climate Restoration.
to Adani at their office in Townsville. Luke has spent over twenty years
working in climate and sustainability
advocacy and communications. He is
deeply committed to the development
and promotion of strategy innovation
and analysis that is essential to deliver
emergency level mobilisation for a safe
climate. Breakthrough is an independent
think tank that develops critical thought
leadership to influence the national
climate debate and policymaking.
15ADRIAN WHITEHEAD GISELLE WILKINSON
National Campaign Manager, Outreach Manager, Breakthrough -
Save the planet and Committee member, National Centre for Climate Restoration
Climate Emergency Darebin
Giselle is a creative change agent,
Adrian has been an environmental author, social innovator and co-founder
campaigner since 1986, and has been of Sustainable Living Foundation
campaigning to reverse global warming Australia in 1999 and Breakthrough-
since 2003. He has worked on many National Centre for Climate Restoration
successful campaigns, including co- in 2014. Giselle actively promotes the
founding Beyond Zero Emissions, Save personal engagement and societal
the Planet and Community Action in the changes needed to reverse global
Climate Emergency (CACE). warming so that all people, species
and future generations may have the
chance to survive and thrive. Having
researched enablers and hurdles to
transformational change at various levels
and documented her experience living
in ‘Emergency Mode’ Giselle is currently
completing her thesis: Mobilising
Whole Communities to Restore a Safe
Environment.
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