Our guest in The Sustainable Studio on 20 March 2019 is 19-year-old Alex Marshall from CACE Surf Coast & Geelong who is calling for proper council action on the climate emergency, and leading the charge on the Surf Coast to follow the lead of over 400 other councils around the world that have declared a climate emergency – five of those in Victoria, 15 in Australia.

We also talk over the phone with the officer at Darebin City Council whose job it is to get the practical stuff of a climate emergency sorted and making the Council’s decisions work for the community and the officers: Samantha Green from the municipality’s Environmental Education & Promotions Office.

We visit Maribyrnong Councillor Simon Crawford in the fifth Victorian council to declare a climate emergency. And we visit Darebin Councillor Trent McCarthy who has been a strong supporter of Darebins climate emergency initiatives since his climate emergency motion – the first of its kind in the world – was carried in 2016.

Sustainable People: Lene Foghsgaard takes to the street again – this time to join the students’ climate strike in Melbourne on 15 March where she walks together with thousands of climate-concerned and sustainable people demanding policy change.

World View: What is New Zealand doing about climate change? Colin Mockett takes a look at New Zealand’s leadership after its Darkest Day, and on the so-called “independent” report from fossil fuel industry consultant Brian Fisher whose research on the economic cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is deeply flawed.

“There is support for declaring a climate emergency, taking action. It is seen as serious and urgent by a majority of people.”~ Common Cause Australia, network agency

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