A call for collaborative action on climate justice in melbourne’s west

Description of our collaboration proposal

The Plan makes clear that climate inequity is a real and lived reality in Melbourne’s west, and seeks to explore what mobilising climate justice means for communities and community sector organisations in the region.

Community organisations are working on the frontline with people experiencing marginalisation and disadvantage, but they themselves are impacted by compounding and cascading events such as heatwaves and rising cost-of-living pressures – resulting in service disruptions, impacts on staff, and surges in demand for services – and raising the risk of flow-on effects for the communities they support.

The Plan was launched with an online panel discussion featuring an overview of the project’s findings and speakers who shared how this process of collaboration is being used to advocate for, and take action on, climate justice in Melbourne’s West.

The Plan identifies focus areas to guide future work on climate justice in Melbourne’s west. If collectively owned and applied across the region, the framework communicated in the Plan is intended to support the many diverse actors striving for transformative change in the west, as a foundation for the critical conversations required for achieving systemic change.

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Learn more and download the Collaborative Action Plan.