The Climate Council welcomes constructive and respectful engagement with our social media content online. To maintain a safe and positive environment for everyone, we ask that you follow these community standards:
- Respect: Treat fellow community members with kindness and respect. We encourage diverse perspectives and constructive discussions, but personal attacks, harassment, hate speech, or bullying is not tolerated.
- Stay on topic: Keep discussions relevant to climate science, impacts, solutions, and related topics. Off-topic posts or spam will be removed to maintain focus on our mission.
- Fact-based discussion: We value evidence-based discussions grounded in science. Take active steps to ensure your contributions are factually accurate and cite credible sources when sharing information. We do not tolerate mis- or disinformation and/or defamatory comments.
- Be mindful of language: We encourage open dialogue and creating safe spaces for everyone online. Please avoid profanity, offensive language, or derogatory remarks.
- Protect privacy: Respect the privacy of others and avoid sharing personal information. This includes refraining from sharing private messages, personal identifiers or sensitive data.
- Promote safety: Help create a safe space for all members by reporting any inappropriate content or behaviour to the platform, or get in touch with our moderators via email info@climatecouncil.org.au.
- Respect Intellectual Property: Only share content that you have the right to post. This includes images, music, video, text, and any other material. Please do not post or upload content that infringes the intellectual property rights of others.
- Follow platform guidelines: Adhere to the terms of service and community guidelines of the social media platform. These standards apply in addition to the platform’s terms and guidelines.
We want to foster a friendly and vibrant community where people feel they can express their opinions and have fruitful discussions in a safe space, so the Climate Council reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to remove or hide comments, and ban or restrict any account or user that infringes these community standards on our official channels.