NEWCASTLE CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE

Newcastle Climate Change Response

Newcastle Climate Action Summit

Proudly supported by City of Newcastle

That's it for the Newcastle Climate Action Summit. Saturday 18th November 2023

Many thanks to also to our Sponsors Vikki Brooke and City of Newcastle and Summit Partners Climate Action Newcastle, Newcastle Climate Change Response and Hunter Community Alliance, together with our many hardworking volunteers for making this happen. Thank you for attending - we hope you enjoyed this summit to take action on reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Newcastle, NSW. Presentations will be loaded onto the website shortly for your perusal.

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Newcastle Emission Reduction Plan

The Newcastle Emission Reduction Plan (NERP) involves the development of an ambitious emission reduction plan for the Newcastle Local Government Area through a participatory process that engages the community, industry and government.
This project will create a detailed plan and city-wide commitment to rapidly reduce carbon emissions and is a joint initiative of Newcastle Climate Change Response and Climate Action Newcastle.

For each of 5 emissions sectors, working groups will develop strategies to reduce emissions within that sector. These will be collated into an overall Emission Reduction Plan. These strategies and plan will be presented at a Climate Summit to be held in Newcastle on Saturday 18 November 2023. Following the presentations, table talks will be used to elicit feedback on the plan from the public and key stakeholders. Based on the feedback, the plan will be finalised for implementation.

We are keen to get your ideas on how to reduce emissions in Newcastle and volunteers to help with the plan and upcoming Climate Action Summit. Click on the buttons below if you have an idea to reduce emissions or would like to help out with this exciting project.

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I want to help out

Donate to our NERP project fund. Every small amount helps.

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The Newcastle Climate Action Summit will be held on Saturday 18 November 2023 at Newcastle City Hall. Come along and hear what is in the Newcastle Emission Reduction Plan and what great ideas and initiatives on reducing GHG emissions in Newcastle have been put forward. This is your chance of providing feedback into the process through Tabletalks on the various emission reduction strategies being proposed.

Interested in coming along to the Climate Action Summit? Register here.

For more information on the Newcastle Emission Reduction Plan click here...

Newcastle Emission Reduction Plan

NCCR Starter Culture Gathering (Monthly meetup)
When: Third Thursday of the Month 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (PLEASE NOTE NO MEETUP AT THE MOMENT - WATCH THIS SPACE!)
Where: Mayfield & by Zoom
Cost: FREE

Come and take your place in being part of the biggest social movement the world has ever seen.
(And which it must be if we are to arrest catastrophic climate change).
There is so much to be done and to do! NCCR Starter Culture Gatherings are the third Thursday of the month and use an “incubator model”, where people who want to start a project do so when ever and however they can. Other people join in as they choose.
So far in the last year there have been at least eleven projects that have independently flourished. These include political efforts, dramatic productions, activist skill sharing, and the Hunter Climate Summit (100+pax.). Great Success!
Our approach:
Q. What is to be done about Climate Change?
A. Just about everything. (Politics, art, technical advance, social movements, education, community support, economic reform, industrial development, social justice, and equity,…[hint: the list is endless]
The meetings are friendly, with food (by donation). Join in with a current project, or start your own and find others! See you there .
AGENDA
5:30 pm Acknowledgement of country, Welcome new folk & quick ‘round the table’ of people there.
6:00 pm Food and networking
6:15 pm Re-assemble, and break into ‘subculture’ work groups - current or new projects brought and being worked on by those there.
7:15 Wrap & announcements
7:30 Close

NCCR Starter Culture Gathering.

Come & join us online via Zoom for this month's monthly NCCR meeting.
5:30 - 7:30 pm each THIRD Thursday of the month.
Meeting information at: bit.ly/NCCRevents  Hope to see you there!
Find NCCR group on Facebook: bit.ly/NCCRgroup

“What will you do? How will you take your action, and who with? ”

NCCR is a group of friendly passionate locals from all walks of life committed to the declaration Climate Change: Not on Our Watch. Through connecting with and growing diverse communities and providing a first place for concerned individuals to come, bound by principles of nonviolence, inclusion and relationality its purpose is to bring together anyone who wants to co-create the powerful and effective nationwide response necessary to keep the world within safe levels of warming for generations to come.

Newcastle Climate Change Response

"Growing the broad, inclusive, connected, unstoppable movement on climate change necessary to meet the Big Hairy Audacious Goal of cutting the world's emissions to safe levels within years, not decades."

“The cavalry is not coming – it’s here already: you and those about you – you’re it!!”

NCCR Starter Culture Gathering

Q. What is to be done about Climate Change?
A. Just about everything. (Politics, art, technical advance, social movements, education, community support, economic reform, industrial development, social justice, and equity,…[hint: the list is endless]

Q. I want to do something useful. How can I find the best match between:

my skills, availability, and passion; and
a useful, important, and rewarding project?

A. Consider coming to a NCCR starter culture gathering. The meetings are friendly, with food (by donation). Join in with a current project, or start your own and find others! See you there :).

You’re invited! The third Thursday of the month at the:
Croatian Wickham Sports Club, Albert Street Wickham, 5.30-7.30pm

Meeting information at:
bit.ly/NCCRevents
Hope to see you there!

Find us on Facebook: bit.ly/NCCRgroup

"Not a campaign. A Response."

NCCR on Social Media

NCCR - Newcastle Climate Change Response

Starter Cultures and Partnerships: the Newcastle Climate Change Response model

Newcastle Climate Change Response is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary phenomenon that arose from Newcastle Law School’s Narratives of Climate Change Conference in 2018. By combining in a new way a range of cutting-edge social change “technologies” both Australian and international (for example new ways with social media (e.g. #blacklivesmatter); the notion of a declaration and a Big Hairy Audacious Goal; “daisies” and rhizomatic organising; the Lismore Helping Hands Flood Response Facebook group and “the Bentley Effect”), University staff and students working with community members have successfully reactivated diverse communities in Newcastle to engage with climate change, including those not previously active.

What we are

NCCR is possibly different from what you might expect in a "local action group" - We are all about organic collective action as chosen by each of us, and empowering ourselves and everyone we know who is determined to stop climate change to do just that! Second, while we know that local and personal action is essential so that we can know we are doing our own individual part, our focus and context is intentionally and firmly global: Australia needs to be part of global action on this issue.

Environmental and community groups we love

Please note that NCCR in connecting with the diverse groups and communities is bound by the principles of nonviolence, inclusion and relationality but is not responsible or liable for the actions of these groups.