As the year draws to a close, we want to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve achieved together in 2024 and share exciting ways you can make a meaningful impact this holiday season.

Thank you for your support in 2024

This year has been transformative for Climate for Change, thanks to your generosity. Together, we:

• Surpassed our EOFY campaign goal, raising over $69,000 to fund our critical programs.
• Hired three incredible team members—Mary (Program Manager), Angela (Administration and Bookkeeping Officer), and Adelaide (Fundraising Lead)—to strengthen our capacity and amplify our impact.
• Revitalised our Climate Conversations and MP Engagement Groups, empowering communities to advocate for bold climate action.

Your contributions have directly supported these achievements and propelled us toward an even bigger 2025, where we’ll celebrate a decade of Climate Conversations and continue to drive systemic change.

This holiday season: Two ways to make an impact

1. Make a holiday donation

1. This holiday season, consider a donation to Climate for Change. Your gift supports programs like Climate Conversations, advocacy efforts, and facilitator training—driving bold climate action at every level.

   

   Looking for a special way to give? Make a gift donation in someone’s name, and we’ll send them a personalised e-card showing the impact their gift is making.

2. 2. Download the Green Gifting Guide

Gift with purpose this holiday season! Our Green Gifting Guide is a curated collection of sustainable, eco-friendly gift ideas handpicked by our team. It includes:

• Functional gifts to combat the cost-of-living crisis, offering practical items that remind your loved ones of your care every day.
• Unique experiences to create memories that last.
• Blak businesses and small enterprises offering ethical, high-quality products.
• Charitable gifts like donating to Climate for Change in someone’s name—a meaningful way to honour the season of giving.

Explore the guide, share it with your loved ones, or use it as your own wishlist. Help us spread the word about sustainable, ethical gifting!

A greener future starts with us

As we prepare for 2025, we’re excited to continue building a movement for a climate-conscious Australia. With your support, we’ll create lasting change, one conversation and action at a time.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Together, let’s make this holiday season a celebration of sustainability, generosity, and hope.

Don’t forget to put in your submission objecting to the revised environmental statement for Viva’s proposed gas terminal in Corio!

There’s a week left to do it - the deadline is by 24 October.

It doesn’t take long if you cut and paste. The simplest way is to attach a letter like the emails you’re all so good at writing!!!

Environment Victoria has an easy guide here.

Or use the Viva terminal issue briefing on the C4C website.

On this weekend 5-6 October (10am-6pm each day)!

RMIT game designers are hosting a two-day immersive game that invites players to regenerate the city during climate crisis.

“Reworlding: Cardigan Commons” is a street-wide event about building a new, sustainable community in a futuristic “solarpunk” Melbourne. Cardigan Street in Carlton will be closed for the event.

Participants will be invited to navigate a future for Naarm Melbourne in 2050 - to shape the city’s regeneration by joining factions, gathering resources, solving puzzles, and working together on creative solutions to make our future community thrive.

If you'd like to go, there's more details here:

We're amplifying Environs Kimberley callout for supporters to make submissions to try and stop fracking in the Kimberley.

Please put in a submission if you haven’t already – it only takes a minute, and share a link to this post with your networks to ask them to do the same. You can send a submission here.

Left: Mt Hardman Creek, 1km from proposed fracking. Right: US oil and gas fracking wells. Photo: Ecoflight, via Environs Kimberley.

A callout from OCEAN (Otways Climate Emergency Action Network)

Your voice can make a difference! The Beyond Gas Network has put together a crucial briefing to empower you to urge your federal Labor member to take immediate action. The Beetaloo Basin’s future is on the line, and we need your help to ensure that the Federal Minister for Environment applies the ‘water trigger’ to protect this vital area.

Today the Albanese Government announced it has issued a raft of new offshore fossil fuel exploration permits, locking in years of climate-warming emissions and harm to marine ecosystems.

The release includes 10 permits for carbon pollution dumping (known as carbon capture and storage (CCS)) and several permits for gas exploration in the Otway and Sorrell basins and in Western Australia, some of which overlap with Commonwealth marine parks.

New gas exploration flies in the face of global commitments to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. There can be no new fossil fuel projects if we are to meet emissions reduction targets and make the urgent transition to renewable energy.

Contact your MP with your objection - see the talking points below.

Environment Victoria is hosting a webinar on August 7 from 5.45-6.45pm with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek about the proposed new environment laws.

You can register for the zoom link here:

Like most of us, if you're anxious about the future and feel a strong urge to do something, you want to know this: What are the most impactful things you can do personally to help mitigate climate change The Guardian put out a call to climate scientists - all the lead authors and review editors of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2018 and received 363 responses.
	Here is a summary of what they said: 1. The most effective action individuals can take is to vote for politicians who pledge strong climate measures! 2. Fly less and reduce home heating and cooling emissions 3. Eat less red meat Other impactful suggestions were protesting, having fewer children, talking about climate as an existential threat, shifting banking and super away from fossil fuel investments and towards green ones, and avoiding products responsible for deforestation, such as beef, timber and cocoa.
Can individual action really help? The climate scientists were were clear on the limits of individual actions, saying they are a "drop in the bucket" but are important in increasing collective awareness of the problem. Deep, rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed, which are outside the control of the average individual. Only systemic changes will be sufficient.

Here at Climate for Change we can help!

Our Conversation and MP Engagement programs can help you take climate action that will make a difference! Click on the links to find out more!

1. Host a Climate Conversation to spread the word about the existential threat of climate change.

Our Conversations start with a host, who invites friends to their home. We send a trained facilitator to present information, answer questions and facilitate a discussion about climate change. 

2. Better still, train as a Conversation Facilitator

3.  Engage with your MPs

Your MP is your connection to Canberra and represents you there. It’s important for them to know what we think and what we want them to do on climate issues – and they don’t know unless we tell them! We've got templates and resources on the website and regular online events to inform and motivate you.

[from Australian Marine Conservation Society]

Our oceans are in danger from seismic blasting, a harmful practice used by the oil and gas industry. The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) urges you to call on Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King to stop issuing Special Prospecting Authority (SPA) permits that allow this destructive activity.

Visit the AMCS website and use their feature send an email to Minister King.