AUSTRALIA DECLARES
SHAPING AUSTRALIA’S
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
14-15 FEBRUARY 2020
BREAKOUT SESSION
Day 2
3:20PM – 4:30PM
YARRA ROOM l LEVEL 3
CITIZEN ACT
DEEPENING DEMOCRACY TO SUPPORT THE EMERGENCY TRANSITION
A strong democracy and empowered communities will be vital to enable citizens to shape a climate emergency transition. How can we deepen our democratic engagement and grow the power of communities to keep the transition accountable and just?
Tim Hollo – Executive Director, Green Institute
Peter Cock – Sociologist & Environmentalist
Giselle Wilkinson – President, Sustainable Living Foundation
Leigh Ewbank – Act on Climate Campaigner FoE
Moderated by Tracee Hutchison Writer, TV & radio broadcaster
SESSION
SPEAKERS
Giselle
Wilkinson
“We are experiencing a climate emergency representing an existential threat. The changes that are being unleashed are currently taking us in exactly the wrong direction – away from the climate stability of the Holocene period, away from safe climate conditions.“
SOCIAL CHANGE & RESEARCH
Giselle Wilkinson
Peter
Cock
“We need our national political system curtailed in the short term with an emergency cabinet of all parties to make the needed hard decisions. For the long term, we need to start deep democracy work to grow out of diverse localisation that prepares us for direct democracy.“
SCIENCE & EDUCATION
