“The evidence is clear. The world is standing at the edge of major ecological and humanitarian tipping points, and time has run out for half measures.” Introduction to the National Climate Emergency Summit, held in Melbourne on 14-15 February 2020.

We open The Sustainable Hour on 19 February with a report from the Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne, where we hear former coal executive Ian Dunlop read a summit resolution and summit director Luke Taylor’s end remark to the attendees, followed by Colin Mockett’s global outlook.

Guests this week are Janine Duffy from Koala Clancy Foundation, Sarah Hathway from Climate Justice Alliance Geelong, who tells us what is going to happen in Geelong on the national Climate Crisis Day of Action on Saturday 22 February, and our 11-year-old youth reporter Ben Pocock. 

We play a clip with Russell Crowe, who spoke to millions on tv-watchers during the Fire Fight Australia show on Channel 7 and tv-stations around the world, and Paul Shelton from Transition Australia runs through the events calendar in his weekly ‘National Wrap’.

“We’ve got the hell of a movement to build, so let’s keep doing it.”~ Luke Taylor, director, National Climate Emergency Summit 2020

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Who’s gonna show up?

We start off this week with Ian Dunlop, an ex coal executive and long time advocate for real action on climate in our country, reading out the very significant resolution that he and Carmen Lawrence presented to the enthusiastic audience of 2,000 who attended Australia’s first ever Climate Emergency Summit last Friday and Saturday in Melbourne. This groundbreaking resolution based on real science is going to be made available for everyone to sign.