Our only chance to seize the decade.
Did you know 40% of Australia’s main grid is already powered by clean, renewable power?
Over the past decade state and local governments, businesses and households have been transforming our country with clean alternatives to climate pollution. Now, a climate-friendly Federal Parliament is driving important changes nationally that build on this momentum.
With your support, Climate Council has been pushing hard for exactly this: slashing climate pollution this decade and powering Australia with clean alternatives. I’m really proud that our research, communications and advocacy work has made such a difference. But while there’s a lot of progress, the change isn’t large enough or fast enough. Yet.
As you know, the climate crisis is now all around us. From the fifth mass bleaching on our treasured Great Barrier Reef, to the most recent ‘climate whiplash’ summer of wild swings between extreme heat, fires and floods for many communities.
But I am writing to you today with a renewed sense of hope for my kids’ future. For all of us.
You might have seen that we recently launched our Seize the Decade report. For the first time, Australia has a practical plan that spells out how, using proven technologies that are readily available, we can cut climate pollution by 75% this decade.
If you want to see an acceleration in climate solutions, we invite you to consider becoming a supporter of our 2030 Action Plan and making a strategic investment in our experts by donating $1000 or more each year.
You’ll be kept in the loop by a member of Climate Council staff who will be sharing key strategic interventions occuring on the ground, as well as hearing directly from our Councillors on the long lens view of the 2030 vision.
Together we can continue to invest in the climate leadership our country needs to reach a 75% cut in climate pollution by 2030.
Amanda McKenzie
Climate Council CEO
Source renewable energy
We power a bigger national grid with 94% renewables, and shift almost entirely away from polluting electricity sources this decade.
Clean up transport
Electrify our passenger fleet so one-third of all passenger kilometres are travelled by electric vehicles by 2030.
Care
for land
Avoid releasing more greenhouse gas emissions by ending native forest logging, and phasing out land clearing.
Elevating farmer voices on the transmission line debate
We find, train and elevate the voices of hundreds of influential spokespeople through our Climate Media Centre and Emergency Leaders for Climate Action projects. They speak with authority thanks to the communication training and support we provide, with more than 180 spokespeople in agriculture, health and key communities trained in how to speak persuasively about their lived experience of climate impacts.
In February 2024, Susan Findlay Tickner joined a group of farmers
in Canberra in to pre-bunk the myths, dis- and mis-information being whipped up around large-scale renewable and transmission projects.
Our team was able to connect Susan for appearances in both the Australian Financial Review and The Australian to talk about how her family has kept farming as usual underneath 14 transmission towers for 50 years.
Your investment in the 2030 Action Plan affords you:
A dedicated staff member to keep you across Climate Council's activities
Access to exclusive webinars and events
Advance notice of vital, new Climate Council projects
Quarterly updates from our expert Climate Councillors and staff members
