Australian organisations unite to lead new climate, energy, campaign
The Transition Decade: New Campaign Aims to Reshape Australia’s Climate Politics, T10 Starts with Community-Wide Engagement, SolveClimate.com, by Leigh Ewbank – Mar 7th, 2010, In Australia, several environmental groups have banded together to encourage a new approach to climate action. They’re steering away from incremental approaches, which have largely failed, and instead are promoting a holistic Transition Decade.Spearheaded by Friends of the Earth, Beyond Zero Emissions, Climate Emergency Network and the Sustainable Living Foundation, the Transition Decade (T10) presents a shared framework for individuals and community groups to develop, then implement initiatives to put Australia on the path of sustainability by 2020….
The campaign starts with community mobilization, aiming to build a foundation to push for government policy change starting in 2012 and then for a greater economic shift toward sustainability starting in 2014. Building a campaign platform around a decade of transition helps bypass “incrementalist failure,” Wright said. The model establishes a timeline for the groups’ shared sustainability agendas, which he argues makes it easier for the business, economic and social communities to align their priorities, and much harder for the proposed policy mechanisms to be corrupted by vested interests…he T10 Alliance was launched as the Labor government’s national climate agenda stalled.
The Transition Decade: New Campaign Aims to Reshape Australia’s Climate Politics | SolveClimate.com
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